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Anchorhead
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Interesting article on Summer films
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8-Sep-2009, 3:56 PM
skyjedi2005 said:

books that have no topical allegory whatsoever....like Tolkien's lord of the rings.

Lord Of The Rings is one of the most famous pieces of allegorical fiction there is.

I've read before where Tolkien claimed to hate allegory - he was either deluded, or a hypocrite.  Lord Of The Rings is a thinly-veiled allegorical piece about how the industrial revolution destroyed bucolic England.  It's almost nothing but allegory.  Arguably, it's know as much for it's message as it is for it's story.

Funny that you brought it up here.  Star Wars is nothing more than Lord Of The Rings in space. Innocent farm boy, at the urging of his old man wizard friend, is drawn into fight against giant evil power threatening the simple life of the good people. Both have a sort of religious David & Goliath under current as well.