More times than not, when referring to a high fantasy novel, many then believe there to be allegorical elements found within the novel because of an underlying conditioning for further analysis and inquiry into texts. However within, J.R. Tolkien’s high-fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings, specifically in the foreword to his first novel, The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien makes it very apparent that there are no allegories found within his novels. This may be surprising and Tolkien even goes so far as to address the “allegories” that others have found, despite Tolkien writing no such thing. Tolkien realizes the coincides between the two events that people assume are an allegory for one another, but Tolkien reinforces and ensures that the coincidental nature of some of his writings are simply that, coincidental, rather the events are vital to the development of the story within his novel and not due to influences of the outside, reality. Throughout one’s time analyzing and reading novels and books alike, people become preconditioned to the idea of underlying messages and allegories being interworked within the context of the novel and or book. Like that of biblical allegories or those referring to what is occurring in the real world during the same time that the writing of the work is occurring. Many believe that the wars found within Tolkien’s novel, The Lord of the Rings, on Middle Earth are allegories to the wars that were occurring on Earth at the times when Tolkien wrote the novel. Implying the fact that Tolkien had purposely allowed the events of the time to influence his writings, however Tolkien continues to disprove and rebut these ideas by coming out and stating that they are in fact, false and simply coincidences that were necessary for the plot and the story of the novel to continue and develop throughout the entirety of the novel.