The flame imperishable : Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the metaphysics of Faërie /

J. R. R. Tolkien was a profoundly metaphysical thinker, and one of the most formative influences on his imagination, according to this new study of his works, was the great thirteenth-century theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas. Structured around Tolkien's Middle-earth creation myth, the Ainulindale...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McIntosh, Jonathan S. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Kettering, Ohio : Angelico Press, [2017].
Subjects:	Tolkien, J. R. R. > (John Ronald Reuel), > 1892-1973 > Criticism and interpretation. Tolkien, J. R. R. > (John Ronald Reuel), > 1892-1973 > Themes, motives. Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274 > Influence. Myth in literature. Middle Earth (Imaginary place)

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The metaphysics of Eru
The metaphysics of the Ainur
The metaphysics of the music and vision
The metaphysics of the Valar
The metaphysics of Melkor
Of metaphysics and myth.