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Originally Posted by Lalwendë
He makes fun of the 'nouveau-riche' in his portrayal of the Sackville-Bagginses - and allegedly also of the aesthetic, intelligentsia Bloomsbury set of the Sackville-Wests. He shows how bumbling the English country squire could be by showing the 'all lads together' japery of Merry and Pippin, the squires' sons. He makes humour out of the narrow world vision and superstitions of the local farm labourers. And he makes us laugh with his portrayal of Bilbo and all his suburban, Daily Mail influenced paranoia about 'strangers' and keeping up appearances (Bilbo effectively goes on his quest because he is so horribly English and cannot say "clear off!" when the Dwarves arrive at his door).
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i never looked at this that way! but you are right...
nevertheless: i think there is a class he never made fun of at all. the highest class: aricstocratic folks (the elves. to my mind they are sort of aristocrats... at least there is no story of elves working for their money, is there?)