Paideia

Tolkien as Anarchist

“My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)…. [T]he most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men.  […] There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.” -JRR Tolkien