hedonism

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "In Tolkien’s life, in his letters, and in his works, not least of which is The Lord of the Rings, there’s an ethos of basically what we would understand to be Catholic social teaching, an ethos of subsidiarity, solidarity, the Chestertonian idea of distributism.  It’s all there, if you like, a political philosophy that underpins the very ethos of The Lord of the Rings." […]