“The Battle of Good and Evil: A Philosophical Analysis of Fellowship of the Ring through the Lenses of Plato and Augustine”

Use the concepts and claims from the theories about good and evil from Plato and Augustine as a “lens” evaluate the arguments about good and evil in Fellowship of the Ring.  Use specific examples, quotes, from both the theories and the novel to illustrate the connections between the two. Include developed explanations of how the examples from the novel illustrate the concepts and/or claims from the theory: use, extend, complicate, illustrate, challenge, qualify, or transform the philosophical accounts of the nature of good and evil?  Avoid simply summarizing scenes from the novel