| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 240 pages). |
| Series |
Popular culture and philosophy ; volume 5 |
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Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The ring. The rings of Tolkien and Plato : lessons in power, choice, and morality / Eric Katz -- The cracks of doom : the threat of emerging technologies and Tolkien's rings of power / Theodore Schick -- "My precious" : Tolkien's fetishized ring / Alison Milbank -- pt. 2. The quest for happiness. Tolkien's six keys to happiness / Gregory Bassham -- The quests of Sam and Gollum for the happy life / Jorge J.E. Gracia -- "Farewell to Lórien" : the bounded joy of existentialists and elves / Eric Bronson -- part 3. Good and evil in Middle-earth. Überhobbits : Tolkien, Nietzsche, and the will to power / Douglas K. Blount -- Tolkien and the nature of evil / Scott A. Davison -- Virtue and vice in The Lord of the rings / Aeon J. Skoble -- part 4. Time and mortality. Choosing to die : the gift of mortality in Middle-earth / Bill Davis -- Tolkien, modernism, and the importance of tradition / Joe Kraus -- Tolkien's green time : environmental themes in The Lord of the rings / Andrew Light -- part 5. Ends and endings. Providence and the dramatic unity of The Lord of the rings / Thomas Hibbs -- Talking trees and walking mountains : Buddhist and Taoist themes in The Lord of the rings / Jennifer L. McMahan and B. Steve Csaki -- Sam and Frodo's excellent adventure : Tolkien's journey motif / J. Lenore Wright -- Happy endings and religious hope : The Lord of the rings as an epic fairy tale / John J. Davenport. |
| Summary |
Can power be wielded for good, or must it always corrupt? Does technology destroy the truly human? Is beer essential to the good life? The Lord of the Rings raises many such searching questions, and this book attempts some answers. Divided into five sections concerned with power and the Ring, the quest for happiness, good and evil in Middle-earth, time and mortality, and the relevance of fairy tales, The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy mines Tolkien's fantasy worlds for wisdom in areas including the menace of technology, addiction and fetishism, the vitality of tradition, the environmental implications of Tolkien's thought, Middle-earth's relationship to Buddhism and Taoism, and more. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Lord of the rings.
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Philosophy.
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. (OCoLC)fst00030031
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Lord of the rings (Tolkien, J.R.R.) (OCoLC)fst01356106
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Tolkien, John R. R. ((The)) lord of the rings.
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Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
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Philosophy in literature.
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Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
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Philosophy in literature.
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Tolkien, J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Philosophy.
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Tolkien, J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Lord of the rings.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Fantasy fiction, English. (OCoLC)fst00920756
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Middle Earth (Imaginary place) (OCoLC)fst01020337
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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Philosophy in literature. (OCoLC)fst01060836
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Philosophie.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Electronic books.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Added Author |
Bassham, Gregory, 1959-
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Bronson, Eric, 1971-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lord of the rings and philosophy 0812695453 (DLC) 2003015450 (OCoLC)52602754 |
| ISBN |
9780812698060 (electronic bk.) |
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0812698061 (electronic bk.) |
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