Pearce on the theology of the Lord of the Rings

I ran across this video of Joseph Pearce addressing students at Christendom College about the Catholicism of the Lord of the Rings. I hesitate to look at things like that because I'm afraid it is just going to be an allegorical catalog--like "Aragorn is this, the Ring is that...."

It was refreshing to see that Pearce's analysis was not cursory and shallow, but marked by careful attention to the theological structure of the story and by perceptive spiritual insight.

I was going to say "piercing" spiritual insight, but I thought that might be too cute by half.