It's certainly no secret that Tolkien was a Christian; his faith was largely founded, I believe, out of his experience on the front lines in WWI, one of the most horrible of front-line wars. His good friend and fellow popular fantasy author, C.S.Lewis also was quite religious in this particular way. And it's not too far a stretch of the imagination to think that their sense of spirituality and faith was reckoned in some fashion in their collective writings. Madmike, your lit professor was a dumbass. As far as the nukes/WWII connection goes, of course it's an apt allegory, but preconceived as vasudeva suggests, yet telling of its time.
