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And so is every other fantasy story with a good protagonist and an evil antagonist.
"Tolkien was equally emphatic that The Lord of the Rings were not to be understood allegorically. In fact, Tolkien was famously hostile to allegory in general"
Now lets pick apart his story and infer meanings that Tolkien flat out denies. 
Gandalf Jesus? He's a wizard who uses magical powers. Frodo Jesus? He's a naive little hobbit out on an adventure.
There isn't enough text in the story to support it. There are even three candidates for Jesus. Aragorn, Frodo, and Gandalf. If Tolkien wanted to do an allegory he would have done it better, he invented fifteen languages in his spare time, after all.
And if you say Christian overtones were there whether Tolkien was aware of it or not because of his religion, you're just not reading the story the way it is supposed to be read.
I've seen theorys of LOTR being satanic, of it being about the future and that the elves going into ships and flying into the heavens is about a space ship lifting off. You can make up most any kind of allegory for any story.
The Christianity theory just gains more credit because of the popularity of Christianity.
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