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The cliff notes version is that Tolkien's work is mired in the sort of befuddled Toryism of the British upper-class at the end of their empire. So while it's not aggressively fascist it is deeply conservative, particularly in how it chooses it's Heroes and villains.
Because Tolkien's work is so influential pretty much everything in the fantasy genre is effected by it.
It's why I flipped out so much about Game of Thrones early on: I thought it was going to be a normal standard fantasy, and thus would be REALLY problematic.
I was happily surprised when it wasn't.
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