The Shambles-

First of all, I want to say that I stumbled across an old thread in which you made quite a few references to Douglas Adams material. You're a very funny person.

As far as allegory and song is concerned, I think you have a wealth of material to choose from there. A lot of folk music started out as allegories for political or societal situations when those who were singing the songs could be punished, even by death, if they sang or talked openly about what they were thinking.

This also applies, interestingly enough, to a number of Mother Goose rhymes. I think Humpty Dumpty is an example of this.

I think it would be accurate to say that the period of slavery here in the U.S., was probably a fertile spawning-ground for allegorical songs.

I wonder if, when Tolkien wrote that, he was specifically aiming at his friend, C.S. Lewis, who seems to have been particularly fond of using allegory in his works.

Best regards, Carol