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From the course description of the Philosophy of Tolkien class offered at Boston College:

"A complete philosophical world and life view underlies Tolkien's two great epics, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion: a synthesis of ingredients in Plato (exemplarism), Jung (archetypes); Romanticism (sehnsucht) and Norse mythology (a Stoic heroism) catalyzed by a Biblical imagination and a Heideggerian linguistic." (emphasis added)

Obviously I'm not the only one to have noticed.