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- This product had a total of 71 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 1 2019.
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This book is not bad
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He presents a virtue a philosophy or a theological concept then defines it expounds on it and ties it to the lord of the rings
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As succinct as he is at this task it is significant that he seldom mentions tolkien for nearly the first sixty pages and the introduction consists of only about twenty of them
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Esthetics is a branch of philosophya neglected branch of philosophy since one wag said beauty is in the eye of the beholder and everyone believed himand therefore all art is a form of philosophic engagement
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The astound thing this is that tolkien never set out to be a philosopher it is neither allegorical nor topical
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This books biggest boon is its concordance
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Most of the 1000 references in the text are actually contained in this nexus
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The lord of the rings becomes a new book allowing you to isolate key passages from the background noise of the prose