I hope this doesn't dissolve into a big shouting match
While I agree with you that Tolkien found the reduction of people to "cogs in a machine" status as a bad thing to be fought against, I don't think he was really making a comment on collectivism in his books over any other particular type of system. I don't think it is supportable to say he made any comment on this in LOTR or the Sil.
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