Bei salon.com ging es kürzlich um die politische Haltung Tolkiens. Hier eine lustige Leserinnen-Reaktion:

Tolkien was Christian yet loved paganism, was a conservative of the variety that views power with suspicion, wanted to leave gay people alone, loved trees, hated industrialism, and wrote about growing and smoking a strange kind of weed? Now I don't want to be another Tolkien bandwagon jumper -- but truth be told, the man sounds just like most of the marijuana activists I know. Are you sure he wasn't a pothead?