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The Silmarillion: Valaquenta

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