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Mieville is a doctrinaire Socialist, Pullman a militant atheist, Brin a technolator. Not really mindsets prepared to find Tolkien's philosophy appealing!
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True enough, I suppose. On the other hand, I'm a leftist, humanist, anti-religious, pro-science, social democrat and LotR is my favorite book. And unless I'm quite mistaken a sizeable fraction of Tolkien fandom is similarly leftist. So either we're quite irrational or the conflict that people like Brin and Pullman see between liberal secularism and Tolkien's works is not quite as severe as they think it is.