Tolkien Had a Deeper Meaning Behind These 3 Classic Lord of the Rings Characters

There is no denying that, for J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings was always going to deeply reflect his religious convictions. He expressed as much in a 1953 letter to a fan, collected years later in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, noting, “The Lord of the Rings is, of course, a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.”