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How are orcs supposed to be Judeo-Bolsheviks?
I assumed he meant the Orcs are the spitting image of the Nazi portrayal of "Judeo-Bolsheviks" as ugly, corrupt, soulless, scheming subhuman hordes, not that Tolkien himself wrote them to be stand ins for Jews or Communists
Uhhh don’t look up what Tolkien thought about communism. The Scouring of the Shire is basically his mini-1984. The guy was a libertarian monarchist so his views of “easterners” were uhhh less than kosher. The Orc language is also Anatolian, Tolkien clearly expresses bizarre views about racial miscegenation, it just goes on and on. But yeah I still like it although I’m not sure I’ll ever bother to watch or read it again.
I don’t think your depiction of the Scouring of the Shire is wrong, I just don’t want to believe it’s true and I think the allusions to communism are bare enough I am able to let myself believe that.