Who JRR Tolkien belongs to. The lady of the rings and politics in search of fantasy

Is the novel that started the fantasy right or left? Giorgia Meloni mentions him constantly. But it is the progressive culture in Italy that gave it to him, missing the opportunity to make peace with fairy tales

The world is changing. Just a few mornings ago, I was sitting on the steps of the Innocenti, at Ss. Annunziata in Florence, smoking. First days of school. A boy next to me was reading with his backpack next to him, before going to class in one of the nearby institutes. Lacquered nails, Indian dangle earring, purple trousers of rough cloth. Great book, I told him. He nodded with a half smile. The book was Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. The gaze and the images of the Oxford philologist have come a long way, from the nocturnal conversation in Addison’s Walk, riverside, when under a gust of autumn leaves the young teacher declared inspired that every man is a mythopath, he is made to project stories on the world, populates clouds and leaves of grass from elves and dwarves, grafting his own individual story into a larger epic narrative.