LotR, an Edwardian Adventure Story?

[JennyHallu]

A good thing, too, as most paradigms are limiting. Also, to see his work in light of the Edwardian values concerning the upper classes would, I think, prompt the tendency to see the elves as members of an aristocratice class that had little interest in other denizens of Middle earth and which was shortly to be swept away by the rising hoards of workers, aka the hobbits and men. Not something that I think Tolkien had in mind.

This is interesting. This isn't at all what Tolkien was trying to show us, but that was the view of Elves he gave Eomer and Gondor before the arrival of Aragorn. And the Elves were shortly to be swept away by the forces of hobbits and men, but not at all in a violent, revolutionary way. Was Tolkien perhaps making fun of this typical literary situation, or seriously discussing the real-life situation with his readers?