This bullshit and variants pop up all the time. Folks on the right love some fantasy lit, but so do folks on the left, and it's dumb when folks focus on it from their own perspective ("Tolkien's creating my sort of world") or the way it's done here, looking at the "other side."

Like, how could they write this article which talks about Thiel's Tolkien love with Panintir but somehow not talk about Musk and his obsession with super-socialist (but fantastic author) SF author Iain M. Banks? Musk names all his ridiculous space drones after those books.

(Yes, SF and fantasy are different, but it seems like a very deliberate hyperfocus here.)