Yeah, that J.R.R. Tolkien sure was some leftist, all right...
Tolkien was, in modern jargon, 'right wing' in that he honoured his monarch and his country and did not believe in the rule of the people; but he opposed democracy simply because he believed that in the end his fellow men would not benefit from it. He once wrote: "I am not a 'democrat', if only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanise and formalise them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal bigness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a Ring of Power -- and then we get and are getting slavery".
"My political beliefs lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) – or to 'unconstitutional' Monarchy ... Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers." (1943)
With all due respect, J.R.R. Tolkien had the example of the relatively amiable and harmless British royal family in mind. And although he says he is against democracy, he was not against the British constitution, which is a constitutional monarchy with significant democratic aspects. If an autocratic ruler were to become a tyrant, the people's only recourse would be to revolt. Democracy is a much saner and peaceful way for changes in government to be made.