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Tolkien, Lord of the Rings (LotR), etc.
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Ah yes, the old "sort of a wisdom tradition". This is exactly the level of insight I expect from the producer of Rings of Power. :)
LOTR is religious in the sense that there is a right thing to do and a wrong thing to do, and doers of good things prosper while doers of bad things suffer. Fantasy, in other words.
The only slightly-Catholic bit is that wrongdoers don't necessarily suffer at the hands of others (though there is certainly a lot of that) but that doing wrong is a psychic punishment in and of itself. Gollum, Denethor, even Saruman by the end all were mostly tortured by their own thoughts. In other words, doing the right thing has nothing necessarily to do with others -- it's simply the only healthy way to live.
Tolkien was surely influenced by his religion. We know this. How can a writer not be influenced by their belief system and surroundings? All this is true and it's not allegory. It's fantasy/faerie.