> Tolkien was a devout catholic and a conservative.

Tolkien was a serious Catholic, but not at all of the same politics and perspective as the people using the names he created in his books. For one thing, in Tolkien's stories power corrupts and is the greatest threat to good people. Also, didn't some of the current businesspeople say they favored Sauron?

"Conservative" can mean a lot of things. Tolkien didn't have anything particularly useful to contribute to politics and nobody should be using him as a guide to anything... but nonetheless there'd have been no limit to the layers of Tolkien's contempt for somebody like Peter Thiel.