Lord of the Rings: European Ethnogenesis

[Kalimtari]

[Jackson]

I had a recent insight today about LOTR series.

Don't you agree that Sauron and the "watchful eye" represents the Abrahamic God of Christians, Jews, and Moslems? The ring-wraith dead human kings represent Roman Catholicism, popes, and archbishops who work directly with Sauron.

The halfling and dwarf races seem to represent native, Aboriginal Keltic tribes (NW Euros/Neanderthal). Elves obviously represent Scandinavians/Norwegians/Swedes/Lapps. Eastern Europeans represent the Rohirrim (horse riders, steppic warriors).

And two of the primary main heroes of LOTR series is Gandalf (wizard, European pagan, shaman) and Aragorn (representing monarchy).

What do you think?

Problem is Tolkien was quite a devout Roman Catholic so i doubt he'd cast Sauron as a Christian . Apparently central to some of his thinking was fear of what he called 'the machine', that is i guess the industrialization and mechanization of the human race both physically and mentally. And yeah the Dwarves are almost the equivalent of the Jews.

[Comte Arnau]

I don't know the books too well, but is there a parallel between the elves and viking raids and plunders?

We Southerners, Heirs of Ancient Rome, would be the Men of the once greatest kingdom there, Gondor (the Southern Kingdom), in between Rohan (Old Northerners) and Harad (Middle Easterners).

Do you remember the glory of Gondor, bro?


Alas, Osgiliath! What happened to your forum? Vini vidi vinci!

[Prisoner Of Ice]

It's actually all about jislam.

[Windischer]

tolkien clearly stated that his works arent allegorical.
yes, khuzdul was inspired by semitic languages, quenya by finnish and sindarin by welsh.

[Hithaeglir]

I have those insights too sometimes about LOTR series.
I always thought that the Middle Earth could be the Mediterranean people (Medi terra).

[Ruggery]

Orcs of Mordor = African immigrants

[Ruggery]

Hobbits = Irishs

[Ruggery]

Dwarfs = Central Europeans and Balkans

[Jana]

Serbs are the Orcs