TOLKIEN IS NOT WHAT THE RIGHT WANTS US TO BELIEVE.
The culture wars are so fierce that they spill over into every available battlefield: even those of Middle-earth. For several years now, J.R.R. Tolkien's work (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings) has been claimed by right-wing thinkers who find ammunition for their reactionary theses in it.
This book convinces us of the opposite, finding in the texts and personal letters evidence that Tolkien was, in fact, an early environmentalist and a mild anarchist, hostile to any centralization of power. Above all, it offers a new perspective on the literary work of the father of fantasy, whose youth was indelibly marked by the rampant industrialization of his rural surroundings and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarianisms.
