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Originally Posted by Patricia
I read it [The Lord of the Rings] as a nuclear drama. The ring is too dangerous to use, but nearly impossible to destroy. That perhaps says something about the cold war period and the CND movement.
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You may read that into it, but it can't have been Tolkien's intention, conscious or unconscious, as the idea of the ruling ring comes to Tolkien in late 1938, well before nuclear weapons were around.
http://web.archive.org/web/200802271...04_genesis.pdf
is an excellent summary.