Warwick wrote:
the chapter on Saruman in the Shire was a none to thinly veiled allegory about the rise of Clement Attlee’s Labour party in Britain.
Yeah I’ve always suspected that too.
Off topic – sorry, actually where did you get that interpretation? Isn’t it just as easy to interpret the other way round. What actually happened is that the conservatives were turfed out post-demobilisation, in much the same way as Saruman is sent packing.
