@article{Kambo2022,
  author    = {Kambo, Kevin},
  title     = {Platonic Tripartition and the Peoples of Middle-Earth},
  series = {thersites 15},
  volume    = {2022},
  journal   = {thersites 15},
  number    = {15},
  editor    = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine},
  issn      = {2364-7612},
  doi       = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.219},
  pages     = {90 -- 122},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings employ traditional races from fairy tales: elves, men and dwarves. These peoples are differentiated principally by their dominant desires, but also by their speech, diet, and realms. I argue that these three races are significantly inspired by the three aspects that characterize the Republic's tripartite soul—logistikon, thumoeides, and epithumetikon—along with their respective principal desires: desire for truth, greatness, and material goods. For Tolkien, therefore, these races have a corporate or political psychology that explains who they are as peoples in the history of Middle-earth. I offer a comprehensive view of the major races, connecting the dwarves with the appetitive artisans of the Republic, humans with the honour- and glory-seeking auxiliaries, and elves with the ruling guardians. This treatment explains the artisanal dwarves, as well as the battle-loving men (and women) of Rohan and Gondor, and the nostalgic, 'anamnetic' condition of exile that distinguishes the elves. Indeed, the condition of elves in many descriptions recalls a Platonic philosopher returned to the Cave, as well as the Neo-Platonic sagacity pictured in the biographies of Plotinus and Proclus.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{MatzPaprockiCristinietal.2022,
  author    = {Matz, Alicia and Paprocki, Maciej and Cristini, Marco and Pezzini, Giuseppe and Capra, Elena Sofia and Kambo, Kevin and Oughton, Charles W. and Chinn, Christopher and Thompson, Phoebe and Praet, Raf and Stutz, Kathryn H. and Keen, Tony and Beck, Christian},
  title     = {There and Back Again: Tolkien and the Greco-Roman World},
  series = {thersites},
  volume    = {2022},
  journal   = {thersites},
  number    = {15},
  editor    = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine},
  issn      = {2364-7612},
  doi       = {10.34679/thersites.vol15},
  year      = {2022},
  language  = {en}
}