The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/lord-of-the-rings)
Ultimately, whether he intended the Silmarillion to function as a national epic for England, Britain, the Anglosphere, or the entire world does not really matter all that much. What matters is that he succeeded.
North American Paganism is being slowly choked by exceptionalism. There, I said it. If you’d like to skip ahead and scream at me now, just scroll down to “comments” and say what you need to say. First, let’s talk about the Lord of the Rings. Of all the characters who inhabited Middle Earth, there were but a handful who could potentially subjugate the ring. As a reminder, the ring was enjoined with the spirit of Sauron, the most powerful servant of evil. He is both the master of the ring and the spirit to which the ring wants to return.