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>>21011493
LoTR is Tolkien's alt-history fan fiction of the Battle of Hastings

>The Battle of Mount Doom is nothing less than an Anglo- Saxon fantasy of the Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror, symbolized as Sauron, is defeated. Elendil was killed by Sauron, just as Harold was killed by William’s Normans. In this truly fantastic reimagination, however, Elendil’s son Isildur redeems his father’s defeat by chopping off the One Ring from the hand of Sauron (the Conqueror) with his father’s broken sword. In this way, the physical, historical presence of the Norman conqueror was catharsized from Tolkien’s mind from the very beginning, and the rest of epic centered upon achieving the final riddance of the evil Conqueror spirit.