Creation and Beauty in Tolkien's Catholic Vision: A Study in the Influence of Neoplatonism in J. R. R. Tolkien's Philosophy of Life as "Being and Gift"

This book invites readers into Tolkiens world through the lens of a variety of philosophers all of whom owe a rich debt to the Neoplatonic philosophical tradition. It places Tolkiens mythology against a wider backdrop of Catholic philosophy and asks serious questions about the nature of creation the nature of God what it means to be good and the problem of evil. Halsall sets Tolkien alongside both his contemporaries and ancient authors revealing his careful use of literary devices inspired by them to craft his own mythology for England.