>>42503
He refused analogies to contemporary issues such as politics(he didn't like it when Sauron and Mordor were compared to Communism). But I think he did freely acknowledge inspiration from mythologies and folklore, even from the books of other people.

>>42515
>He does not want to dwell on the issues of his day and age, but find a fantasy world where the idealized form of the good old Victorian era morality and behavioral patterns apply.
What clear is that he rejected the ugly urbanite life with the dirty gray factories with overworked proles and slavedriver bosses, while glorified pastoral countryside villages with comfy cottages and lazy glutton simpletons.

Pretty much, he described himself as an unconstitutional monarchist and was quite opposed to modernisation and globalisation.