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The Lord of the Rings can be interpreted in many different ways. Tolkien meant for his readers to decide on the meaning of his allegory. For him, no one really knows what the trilogy meant to him, but my favorite theory is that, as a devout Catholic, Tolkien would have seen his book as symbolizing the destruction of the goodness of the world, symbolized by the Shire and the Free Peoples, by the devil, Sauron, who uses whatever he needs to attain his goal. He calls us to fight against secularism, like the good guys fought the temptation of the Ring and sought the downfall of Sauron.

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