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I know little about the world. I read Lord of the Rings, and few pages from the Hobbit, but not all of his mythology or legendarium.
>>/42508/
Now that I'm thinking why neither the commie analogy, nor the Carpathian basin fits is that the Hobbit is a child's tale, and LotR is pure escapism. He does not want to dwell on the issues of his day and age, but find a fantasy world where the idealized form of the good old Victorian era morality and behavioral patterns apply.
What clear is that he rejected the ugly urbanite life with the dirty gray factories with overworked proles and slavedriver bosses, while glorified pastoral countryside villages with comfy cottages and lazy glutton simpletons.