LOTR: Who Are The Gods of Middle Earth?

Even though spirituality and religion is a part of Middle-earth’s make-up, it doesn’t factor into the story of The Lord of the Rings very much. A lot of what Tolkien imagined and wrote about the various religious aspects of Middle-earth were included in other ancillary pieces of writing, or some of his other Middle-earth stories that took place before the Third Age. Most fantasy worlds have some collection of deities that created and/or rule over the world, but their importance in the story varies according to how necessary to the plot they are. It seems that for Tolkien, the pantheon of gods that he created were more for added worldbuilding rather than being characters that affect the plot directly.