Tolkien on World Finance

 

[caption id="attachment_1001" align="aligncenter" width="327"] Tolkien, aged 24 in 1916[/caption]

"The true equation is ‘democracy’ equals government by world financiers. The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or what is most important of all, the banker of the backer. Enthroned above all, in a manner without parallel in all past, is the veiled prophet of finance, swaying all men living by a sort of magic, and delivering oracles in a language not understood of the people."

J.R.R. Tolkien, Candour Magazine, 13 July 1956