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| title=The Flame Imperishable<br><small>Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie</small>
| image=[[File:The Flame Imperishable.jpg|225px]]
| author=Jonathan S. McIntosh
| publisher=Angelico Press
| date=December [[2017]]<ref name=Angelico>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=https://www.angelicopress.org/the-flame-imperishable-mcintosh?rq=McIntosh|articlename=The Flame Imperishable|dated=|website=Angelico Press|accessed=21 August 2022}}</ref>
| format=Hardcover/Paperback
| pages=306
| isbn=978-16213154
}}
'''''The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie''''' is a [[2017]] study of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] on Metaphysics. 

==Contents==
*Introduction

* One: The Metaphysics of Eru
* Two: The Metaphysics of the Ainur
* Three: The Metaphysics of the Music and Vision
* Four: The Metaphysics of the Valar
* Five: The Metaphysics of Melkor
* Final theme: Of Metaphysics and Myth

*Bibliography
*Index of proper names

==From the publisher==
{{blockquote|J. R. R. Tolkien was a profoundly metaphysical thinker, and one of the most formative influences on his imagination, according to this new study of his works, was the great thirteenth-century theologian, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas]. Structured around Tolkien’s Middle-earth creation myth, the ''[[Ainulindalë]]'', ''The Flame Imperishable'' follows the thought of Aquinas as a guide in laying bare the deeper foundations of many of the more familiar themes from Tolkien’s [[legendarium]], including [[sub-creation]], free will, evil, and [[eucatastrophe]]. More than merely using Aquinas to illuminate Tolkien, however, this study concludes that, through its appropriation of many of the philosophical and theological insights of Aquinas, what Tolkien’s literary opus achieves is an important and unique landmark in the history of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomism Thomism] itself, offering an imaginative and powerful contemporary retrieval, interpretation, and application of Thomistic metaphysics for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.<ref name=Angelico/>}}
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