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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.
"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.