A background feeling of
melancholy found in
Tolkien's
Lord of the Rings, derived from the knowledge that every victory is only temporary, what we hold good will eventually be gone, and that the world is irreversibly changing for the worse, derived from the English/British
Catholic sentiment that their world of Catholic hegemony is gone and never to return, crossed with Tolkien's dislike of the changes to
England since the
Industrial Revolution and during the
Twentieth Century.
