let's think about happy things instead of politics, like this earlier description of JRRT;
I kinda find [Tolkien's incessant elf songs] charming more in the context of "this is some WWI vet's conlanging project rather than book 7 of the Wheel of Fire and Dragonriders dodecology" than in the context of "this story was chugging along fine until we apparently needed a Sindarin ballad about cleaning socks."