Resumen

CUESTA, Rafael. Communitarianism as the Official Politics of "Middle Earth". CONfines relacion. internaci. ciencia política [online]. 2005, vol.1, n.1, pp.165-176. ISSN 1870-3569.

In this article, I analyze some political and philosophical references taken from the movie, The Lord of the Rings. This production was immensely popular at the end of the twentieth century (from a literary perspective as well as from a cinematography viewpoint) however it maintains many characteristics of epic poems and ancient legends such as the expressions of Beowulf. The article aims to establish the terms of a central debate in contemporary political theory by examining the representation of communitarianism and liberalism portrayed in J.R. Tolkien's work.