JRR Tolkien had a lot of good ideas and important things to say, but he may have been the only sincere “anarcho-monarchist” to ever exist, and that means whatever his other values, he did very much believe in and desire kings
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Joy-Ann Reid
We will never be a monarchy. Know that. To quote the LOTR trilogy: Gondor has no king. Gondor needs no king.
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I kinda think that "king" is just the best word Tolkien's mind could provide, because if we take LotR as a guide to seeing what he thought would be a good governmental system, the "anarcho-monarchy" is basically "anarchy, with elders we consult"
like, originally dwarves were subconsciously coded Jewish, and when that was pointed out to him, he worked to tweak that and move away from antisemitic stereotypes
but it’s a fantasy he made, written as an in-universe story, not political theory
https://queersatanic.com/finding-a-better-lord-of-the-rings-analogy-for-us-politics/