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Well, even if the dumb actors are leftists, I am pretty sure they are as big of LOTR fans as we are. But I find it very comforting to know that JRRT, the creator of it all, was closer to our point of view, he did not like or approve of leftist philosophy.

I wonder if any of them understands that, or if, like the 60's hippies, they think Tolkien is on their page.

I think there is room in Tolkien's philosophy for lots of people to feel at home in his ideal.

I dunno... I don't particularly claim Tolkien as a conservative of today. I think to try to fit him in a party platform trivializes a great fantasy. His world is not bound by our reality, our motives, or our problems.

I think Tolkien would hate today and not necessarily be conservative. He was English, after all, and even English conservatives are not like US... He was mourning industry and its impact on the world, so I hardly think he would be on the capitalist bandwagon. I think he would hate big business and big cities full of skyscrapers as much as he hated the industrial age.

He painted an ideal that was beautiful, but can no longer be. An ideal that I share with him. The Shire as a system of governance does not work in modern society with millions of people. That doesn't make it any less attractive as a place to escape to in our hearts.