Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27397283-20151214072846/@comment-24891101-20151214073305

Tolkien's applicability, not allegory. If you want to interpret it that way, that's fine. Don't be surprised when others disagree, is all. For instance, while I can see first order sketches of how that works, the implications of Penny in and of herself are far more interesting than anything of that sort. I myself am a Watsonian, dyed in the wool; I never take an out-of-universe explanation when an in-universe one will do.