The Silmarillion: Valaquenta

[Melian]

Do you think the Professor considered the Christian-Judeo tradition when he developed these images?

 

[Maedhros]

From the Letters of JRRT: 320

I was particularly interested in your remarks about Galadriel. .... I think it is true that I owe much of this character to Christian and Catholic teaching and imagination about Mary

In the case of Galadriel, it would seem so.