There are plenty of less defined and subconscious biases present in his work but to try and shoehorn an anti-authoritarian or anti-surveilance message into his books is stupid.

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 16 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) – or to 'unconstitutional' Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate realm of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate!

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But the special horror of the present world is that the whole damned thing is in one bag. There is nowhere to fly to. Even the unlucky little Samoyedes, I suspect, have tinned food and the village loudspeaker telling Stalin's bed-time stories about Democracy and the wicked Fascists who eat babies and steal sledge-dogs. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as 'patriotism', may remain a habit! But it won't do any good, if it is not universal.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/j-r-r-tolkien-from-a-letter-to-christopher-tolkien

Considering the mans views, I'm not at all surprised he intended as such.

[–] Norin@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Tolkien is, rightly, a huge influence on what remains of Christian Anarchism today.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

I haven't read anything about Tolkien's politics before, but this sounds like he just generally dislikes democracy