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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

>  each time I see something new.....a new
> analogy, a new symbolism, a new meaning in one of the poems, etc.

Good fiction evokes unique vision by each reader. Tolkien intended 
far less than readers found: '"In his forword to the work Tolkien 
expressed his dislike of allegory: "As for any inner meaning or 
'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither 
allegorical nor topical...'"

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tolkien.htm