Tolkien Was an Anarchist

And so were his many of kings and queens.

Earlier in the month, we discussed J.R.R. Tolkien’s views on authority.

SPOILER ALERT: He did not like it.

He did not like democracy, and the kind of king he preferred here in the real world—since truly meritorious, worthy kings were less that “one in a million”—was a distracted ditherer: someone who technically has authority, but can’t be bothered to us…