Death of the author
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It is nonsense. It's a massive strawman.
Of course nobody could know exactly what he would've wanted. That doesn't mean that we don't have a good general idea of what he would have wanted.
Tolkein was interviewed frequently on the subject of, and of his own accord wrote what probably amounts to thousands of pages explaining in detail regarding, exactly what his motivations were, his inspirations were, and his desires were, both from an authorial standpoint and illustrating what he wanted out of his audience.
These are all just stupid kids who are so afraid to and/or lazy to do the homework, that they'd rather just blithely hypothesize that their opinions are all that matters, and no record from the past could possibly disagree with them. Nobody involved in these things cares anymore beyond the money and stardom it brings them now. They're not reading enthusiasts, certainly not appreciators of Tolkein, and have no informed opinions on anything they now serve as the face of. I have severe doubts that literally anyone involved in the product has read the 4 main books that serve as the series.
He left behind a small mountain of writing about what exactly did he mean.
But we're not going to read that.
So we don't know and we're going to assert that no one knows.
At the very least, he wouldn't have wanted anything that contradicted Catholic morality or doctrine.
The Pope hasn't said anything that violates Catholic doctrine. Don't get fooled by out-of-context quotes by the media that perverts everything, or the hatred of people who want a political Christianity instead of a higher one.
I mean, he only had thousands upon thousands of pages of it, including things like race, species, skin colors, gender roles, politics, and ideology... But how could we know?! Reading is an alt-right construct, after all!