В посте
про антисталинизм и антисоветизм Толкина меня неправильно понял как минимум один человек (коллега Коломбо Ардити из клуба "Мнение" :)). Объяснюсь.
Русскоязычные толкинисты любят помнить о том, как Толкин не любил фашизм и Гитлера. Но тем из них, кто покрылся ватой, стоит не забывать и о том, что советскую Россию Толкин не любил тоже. Непринципиально, почему так вышло (потому что католик или по какой-то иной причине), важен сам факт: для Толкина фашистская Германия и советская Россия были жабой и лягушкой, которые бы лучше сношали друг друга.
Вот цитата из комментариев Кристофера к "Утраченному пути": "From Elendil's words at the end of
The Lost Road there emerges a sinister picture: the withdrawal of the besotted and aging king from the public view, the unexplained disappearance of people unpopular with the 'government', informers, prisons, torture, secrecy, fear of the night; propaganda in the form of the 'rewriting of history' (as exemplified by Herendil's words concerning what was now said about Earendel, стр. 60); the multiplication of weapons of war, the purpose of which is concealed but guessed at; and behind all the dreadful figure of Sauron, the real power, surveying the whole land from the Mountain of Numenor. The teaching of Sauron has led to the invention of ships of metal that traverse the seas without sails, but which are hideous in the eyes of those who have not abandoned or forgotten Tol-eressea; to the building of grim fortresses and unlovely towers; and to missiles that pass with a noise like thunder to strike their targets many miles away. Moreover, Numenor is seen by the young as over-populous, boring, 'over-known': 'every tree and grass-blade is counted', in Herendil's words; and this cause of discontent is used, it seems, by Sauron to further the policy of 'imperial' expansion and ambition that he presses on the king. When at this time my father reached back to the world of the first man to bear the name 'Elf-friend' he found there an image of what he most condemned and feared in his own".
Картинка ложится и на СССР, и на Третий рейх, и, отчасти, на современную Толкину Англию.