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Abstract
J.R.R. Tolkien, author of works such as The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, can be seen as an intellectual representative of England's conservative political culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries? The present analysis, part of the ongoing Master's research, seeks to develop a study on political culture and the role of the intellectual and his socialization networks for the understanding of English conservatism. The objective is to investigate the political man, inserted in his time and with a mentality shared by his peers in the cultural segment. Starting from this question, Tolkien's correspondence and official biography will be analyzed to map the position of the writer as a conservative man representing a cultural and political context
