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Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good: J.R.R. Tolkien and Political Philosophy aims to illuminate philosophical layers of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Written by scholar Joshua Hren, it was published in 2018 by an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers.
Topics discussed include Plato, Atlantis, eucatastophe, politics, liberalism, modernity, and the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel.
- "Many have suspected that, just as Tolkien’s religious faith, never mentioned in his fiction, nevertheless underlies it, so political philosophy, never directly expressed, animates his fiction and is one powerful reason for the responses it has generated. Joshua Hren’s study of Tolkien and ‘the common good’ takes this intuition and makes out the case for it, with detailed study of both the traditional philosophy Tolkien knew, and the philosophical developments which have occurred since."
- —Tom Shippey