See, this is why I go back to Bombadil, who also was not a pacifist in the
modern sense. Frodo and Tom did not object to fighting in a good cause,
they just didn't see it as necessary -- or at least they didn't see
their personal involvement in the fighting as necessary. Tom was
confident that matters would resolve themselves without his involvement, and
Frodo was confident that the hobbits would reclaim the Shire from the invading
ruffians. Frodo wanted to minimize bloodshed because he was
confident of the
outcome.
“I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. (And, of course, the more 'life' a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: while the better a deliberate allegory is made the more nearly will it be acceptable just as a story.)” (From Tolkien Letter # 131.)
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