Quote: Why JRRT Was Not a ‘Democrat’

I am not a ‘democrat’, if only because ‘humility’ and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, until some Orc gets hold of a ring of power – then we get and are getting slavery.

~ John Ronal Reuel Tolkien

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