Thus revealeth MORAMBAR, the Inexplicable, the Funder of Right-Wing Think-Tanks:
“Tolkien created Hobbits as a metaphore of how Welfare Society dwarfs the Men both intellectually and physically. The Attlee Government forced him to remove all passages where the Free Hobbit, Trotter, who escaped the socialism of Shire to a free frontier life on the wilderness, mocks the way his passive cousins had voluntarily allowed their society to self-mutilate themselves. In revenge, Tolkien created the Ultimate Royalist charcter of Aragorn Elessar, that forebodes the coming of Margaret Thatcher.”
And the Viceregent commented:
“Interesting, Master! It seems to me that Gollum epitomises what happens when little people try to grasp at things whereof they are unworthy, like health care. And doesn't all that about the Ring being a 'birthday present' suggest a welfare statist sense of entitlement? Milton Friedman lifted whole passages from Tolkien. You'd think he would have paid Him. Freeloader.”