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Ents, elves, and Eriador : the environmental vision of J.R.R. Tolkien /

Main Author: Dickerson, Matthew T., 1963- (Author)
Other Authors: Evans, Jonathan D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006.
Series:Culture of the land: a series in the new agrarianism
Subjects:
Tolkien, J. R. R. > 1892-1973 > Knowledge > Environmental sciences.
Tolkien, J. R. R. > 1892-1973 > Criticism and interpretation.
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel, > (1892-1973) > Critique et interprétation.
Tolkien, John R. R.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Environmentalism.
Ecocriticism.
Environmental literature > History and criticism.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Écologie > Dans la littérature.
Nature > Dans la littérature.
Terre du Milieu (lieu imaginaire)
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Table of Contents:
  • Varda, Yavanna, and the value of creation
  • Gandalf, stewardship, and tomorrow's weather
  • Hobbits and the agrarian society of the Shire
  • Horticulture and the aesthetic of the elves
  • Woods, wildness, and the feraculture of the ents
  • The necessity of margins in Middle-Earth's mingled ecologies
  • The ecology of Ham, Niggles' Parish, and Wootton Major
  • Three faces of Mordor
  • Rousing the Shire
  • Environmentalism, transcendence, and action.

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