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I guess they never read the Silmarillion or wiki'd it.
Eru Illuvatar is God. The Ainur, Maiar, and Valar are angels. He also used them to partially explain paganism, since it was the lacking knowledge of the full and seeing these entities as gods that did it. Melkor/Morgoth is Satan, and the Umaiar are his legions of Demons.
He might have use a lot of Eddaic and Celtic prose and myths in his work and made this his own, but he wrote it with some level of faith in it. Not full CS Lewis level, but there are elements to it.