[dragonwriter]

> Tolkien and Madeleine L'Engle wrote novels in a similar vein (that are also excellent children's books).

Tolkien very much did not write Christian allegory/apologia in the guise of fiction, though he did remix Christian themes. So I wouldn't say Tolkien’s books were much at all in the same vein as Lewis’s.

[Maursault]

Tolkien said many times he despised allegory, but it is hard to ignore what could accurately be called the Christian rebirth of everyone's favorite wizard.