Jun 5, 2019
Tolkien is well-known to have been involved with the inner
consistency of his fictional world, from geography to historical past to
language. However he was additionally involved with one other form of
consistency: metaphysical consistency, not solely throughout the work however
between his work and actuality (as a result of he didn’t see the
storyteller’s process as offering a substitute for actuality however an
extension of it). Students have debated the character of Tolkien’s
metaphysics; Jonathan S. McIntosh contends that the considered St.
Thomas Aquinas supplies probably the most fruitful metaphysical lens with
which to look at Center-Earth.
Hyperlinks
The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the
Metaphysics of Faërie https://angelicopress.org/product/the-flame-imperishable/
Jonathan’s Flame Imperishable weblog https://jonathansmcintosh.wordpress.com/
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