Silmarils and obsession : the undoing of Feanor / John Holmes. Race in Tolkien studies : a bibliographic essay / Robin Anne Reid -- Revising Lobelia / Amy Amendt-Raduege -- Medieval Organicism or modern feminist science? Bombadil, elves, and mother nature / Kristine Larsen -- Cinema, sexuality, mechanical reproduction / Valerie Rohy -- Saruman's sodomitic resonances : Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the rings / Christopher Vaccaro -- Cruising faery : queer desire in Giles, Niggle, and Smith / Stephen Yandell -- Language and alterity in Tolkien and Levinas / Deidre Dawson -- The orcs and the others : familiarity as estrangement in The Lord of the rings / Verlyn Flieger -- Silmarils and obsession : the undoing of Feanor / Melissa Ruth Arul -- The other as Kolbitr: Tolkien's Faramir and Eowyn as Alfred and Aethelflaed / John Holmes.
Summary:
This edited collection explores the other in Tolkien's writing and life. It examines gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, language, and identity in The Lord of the RIngs, The SIlmarillion, and other works.--cf. p. [4] of cover.
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