He said they were not allegorical, he wanted the reader to relate to the wide themes of human experience and not to some specific narrow event to be fixed on that moment in time. aka, people read the one ring as an allegory of the atomic bomb, which he hated, it was suppose to be read as a symbol of the corrupting influence of power on people.
Tbh, Sauron always seemed like a stand-in for Hitler.
This is even in spite of Tolkien saying that his works aren't political or some shit.
He said they were not allegorical, he wanted the reader to relate to the wide themes of human experience and not to some specific narrow event to be fixed on that moment in time. aka, people read the one ring as an allegory of the atomic bomb, which he hated, it was suppose to be read as a symbol of the corrupting influence of power on people.
Yeah, but I felt that he definitely did have Hitler in mind.