[Imladris]

Oddly, Bombadil , after reading your post, I did not think of Americans (though I full heartedly agree with what you said and how you applied the passages to them) but of the Greeks. I thought of Mount Olympus, of their humanistic values, of their desires (particularly the Romish desire) for pleasure.

But, as everyone else has been saying, Tolkien had a firm grasp of human nature and their tendancy to fall. What he wrote could probably be compared to every culture on this world.