Sauron is Right Wing
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It's an extremely reductionist way of thinking of LoR when you take out the vital bit of context about the author of it:
He fought in the Battle of Somme during WW1 in 1916
If you read any of the accounts of that battle or the art depicting it, you know that place was literal hell on earth. Once verdant fields and wildland stripped bare, reduced to mud fused with blood, chemicals, bodies and shrapnel. Screams of men dying in different ways from bleeding out to gas attacks.
You see that in how Mordor is depicted compared to the rest of middle-earth to see the real influences was that hell hold than any modern day political bullshit.
He denied it several times, but then admitted it probably did effect his writing, just not directly. He wrote Luthien while recovering from the battle.