From a reader:

Dear Jonah,
The posting on your Liberal Fascism blog about Tolkien and fascism reminded me of an intriguing passage in one of JRR’s letters that I cannot resist sharing. He wrote the following in 1943 to his 18-year-old son who had just been called up into the Royal Air Force:
“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)…. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate realm of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could get back to personal names, it would do a lot of good. Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people. If people were in the habit of referring to ‘King George’s council, Winston and his gang,’ it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful slide into Theyocracy.
“Anyway the proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. And at least it is done only to a small group of men who know who their master is. The medievals were only too right in taking ‘nolo episcopari’ [‘I do not wish to be made a bishop’] as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop.”
As a side-note, some on the left try to tag Tolkien as a fascist because there is a Nordic flavor to his writings, but he hated Hitler (as well as Stalin, understanding that they were both peas in a pod) for, aside from the obvious reasons, giving Nordic mythology a bad name:
“I have in this War a burning private grudge — which would probably make be a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22 [he served in WWI]: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler…. Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light.”
And when a German publisher interested in printing a German translation asked in 1938 whether he was Aryan, Tolkien wrote to his own publisher:
“Personally I should be inclined to refuse to give any Bestatigung [confirmation] (although it happens that I can), and let a German translation go hang. In any case I should object strongly to any such declaration appearing in print. I do not regard the (probable) absence of all Jewish blood as necessarily honourable; and I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving colour to the notion that I subscribe to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine.”
Cheers,