Christopher Michael
Troubadour
Yes, Tolkien didn't like the allegory thing, but he also didn't like the thematic conclusions people often pulled from the story....
And yet..."I would ask them to make an effort of imagination sufficient to understand the irritation (and on occasion the resentment) of an author, who finds, increasingly as he proceeds, his work treated as it would seem carelessly in general, in places recklessly, and with no evident signs of any appreciation of what it is all about." ( The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no 207)