I see a great many things in TWoT, and others see still more, but that may be unavoidable in so large a work. A variation on the million monkeys theory, if you will. Further complicating things is that it's very easy for an author to subconsciously weave very serious themes into his work.

Tolkien always insisted the Trilogy wasn't allegorical on any level but, while I don't think him at all dishonest in saying that, there are two very strong allegorical relationships, one with his Catholic faith and the other (stronger) with the two World Wars and intervening period of inattentive peace. The Great War has much in common with the Last Alliance which the old Elven leaders led their rude, young but promising allies to victory against a common foe, leaving untold numbers horrifically slain even in victory. Their world began to end there, even as the world of colonial Europe (especially Britain) as dominant began to end with the Great War and America's rise similar to that of the kingdoms of Men in Middle-Earth. They thought it was over, but their watch was neglectful, and allowed evils return, so a final time they fought, but now the young upstarts clearly had the initiative, and once again even victory came at a price, and even as the Elves Europe and Britain entered the autumn of their decline as an ancient but weary world power (or so it must've seemed to Tolkien in the '50s, when a Britain bereft of colonies urged its people to "export or die!") Tolkien tells us none of that was intentional and, even given the amount of revision he had to have done just before publication, there's no way the parallels between the Ring and the Bomb as superweapons to terrible to use could've been deliberate.

So, yeah, I dunno. I believe, without having studied his biography closely, that Jordan was a mature and serious man, just as Tolkien was, and that when he sat down to write a story, it might not be Gilgamesh but his characters will have deeper goals and motives than "It's a spring Saturday night in the Two Rivers, I found Pa's still and the girls are out a-dancin'." Though he did a return to Conan, so maybe. I think it far more probable that Tolkien neither set out to write the Bible in fantasy form nor a two hour made for TV movie, but something in between the two. It's worth discussing, even if we don't agree, and any discussion worth having is worth having civilly, especially when we don't agree, so thanks for that. I'll meet you half way and say that some of the things I see may be projected, but at least a few of them I believe too thoroughly worked in and too often revisited to be coincidental or unconscious (the most significant, to me, being that if good becomes brutal enough in fighting evil the difference between evil and good is negligible, and that trusting those worthy is as important as not trusting everyone.)