Ents Elves and Eriador The Environmental Vision of J R R Tolkien First Edition by Matthew T Dickerson, Jonathan Evans ISBN 0813124182 9780813124186

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ISBN 10: 0813124182 

ISBN 13: 9780813124186

Author: Matthew T. Dickerson, Jonathan Evan

Many readers drawn into the heroic tales of J. R. R. Tolkien’s imaginary world of Middle-earth have given little conscious thought to the importance of the land itself in his stories or to the vital roles played by the flora and fauna of that land. As a result, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion are rarely considered to be works of environmental literature or mentioned together with such authors as John Muir, Rachel Carson, or Aldo Leopold. Tolkien’s works do not express an activist agenda; instead, his environmentalism is expressed in the form of literary fiction. Nonetheless, Tolkien’s vision of nature is as passionate and has had as profound an influence on his readers as that of many contemporary environmental writers. The burgeoning field of agrarianism provides new insights into Tolkien’s view of the natural world and environmental responsibility. In Ents, Elves, and Eriador, Matthew Dickerson and Jonathan Evans show how Tolkien anticipated some of the tenets of modern environmentalism in the imagined world of Middle-earth and the races with which it is peopled.

Table of contents: 

1. Varda, Yavanna, and the Value of Creation
2. Gandalf, Stewardship, and Tomorrow’s Weather
3. Hobbits and the Agrarian Society of the Shire
4. Horticulture and the Aesthetic of the Elves
5. Woods, Wildness, and the Feraculture of the Ents
6. The Necessity of Margins in Middle-earth’s Mingled Ecologies
7. The Ecology of Ham, Niggle’s Parish, and Wootton Major
8. Three Faces of Mordor
9. Rousing the Shire
10. Environmentalism, Transcendence, and Action

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