The Hobbit begins in Tolkien’s unconscious socialist vision—Bilbo lives comfortably without employment or employers, free from government coercion. Gandalf organises a volunteer collective to restore stolen dwarf property. It’s perfectly democratic: equal opportunity quests with no compulsion to participate. This egalitarian environment brings out people’s best qualities, showing how freedom and choice enable personal growth and solidarity.
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Tolkien unconsciously embedded socialist values in his work. He’s one of the twentieth century’s most socialist writers, despite his conservative beliefs.
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How I Read The Hobbit as a Socialist Story (And Completely Missed the Point)
As a child, I saw Tolkien’s world as gloriously secular—no churches, no God, just folklore creatures the Church opposed. Bilbo’s anarchic society without government or hierarchy seemed like progressive utopia. Only later did I discover Tolkien was a conservative Christian medievalist — oh well.
William Cobbett died as he had lived – arguing. His final illness didn’t prevent him from dictating angry letters to newspaper editors, and his last recorded words were reportedly complaints about the incompetence of his doctors. It was, in its way, a perfect end to a life spent in perpetual combat with the world.. But