I’m on a lookout for liberal BS, but I didn’t see that in the LOTR movies. Less liberal then the books, the orcs were veiled capitalists and they were just nasty badguys in the movies. The internal conflict the characters had more in the movies just comes off as the difference between read and viewed media
I suspect it’s been awhile since you read the book. Read it again. The Scouring of the Shire contains one of the best rebuttals of socialism in literature. (Gee, I wonder why Jackson once said in an interview that he didn’t like that part of the book?)
I wouldn’t call the book “liberal” (except, perhaps, in the classical sense), nor would I have ever expected “veiled capitalists” to be used appositionally to “orcs”.