The Lord of the rings and philosophy : one book to rule them all

Content: pt. 1. The ring. The rings of Tolkien and Plato : lessons in power, choice, and morality / Eric Katz --
The cracks of doom : the threat of emerging technologies and Tolkien's rings of power / Theodore Schick --
"My precious" : Tolkien's fetishized ring / Alison Milbank --
pt. 2. The quest for happiness. Tolkien's six keys to happiness / Gregory Bassham --
The quests of Sam and Gollum for the happy life / Jorge J.E. Gracia --
"Farewell to Lórien" : the bounded joy of existentialists and elves / Eric Bronson --
pt. 3. Good and evil in Middle-earth. Überhobbits : Tolkien, Nietzsche, and the will to power / Douglas K. Blount --
Tolkien and the nature of evil / Scott A. Davison --
Virtue and vice in The Lord of the rings / Aeon J. Skoble --
pt. 4. Time and mortality. Choosing to die : the gift of mortality in Middle-earth / Bill Davis --
Tolkien, modernism, and the importance of tradition / Joe Kraus --
Tolkien's green time : environmental themes in The Lord of the rings / Andrew Light --
pt. 5. Ends and endings. Providence and the dramatic unity of The Lord of the rings / Thomas Hibbs --
Talking trees and walking mountains : Buddhist and Taoist themes in The Lord of the rings / Jennifer L. McMahan and B. Steve Csaki --
Sam and Frodo's excellent adventure : Tolkien's journey motif / J. Lenore Wright --
Happy endings and religious hope : The Lord of the rings as an epic fairy tale / John J. Davenport.