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Title:

Tolkien : the forest and the city / Helen Conrad-O'Briain & Gerard Hynes, editors.

Publisher:

Four Courts Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

197 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Tolkien, J. R. R.--(John Ronald Reuel),--1892-1973--Criticism and interpretation.
Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)

Other Authors:

Conrad-O'Briain, Helen, editor.
Hynes, Gerard, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael D.C. Drout. The tower and the ruin: the past in J.R.R. Tolkien's works / Tom Shippey -- Civil pleasures in unexpected places: an introduction to the etiquette of Middle-earth / Jane Suzanne Carroll -- 'Wildman of the woods': inscribing tragedy on the landscape of Middle-earth in The Children of H©ðrin / Dimitra Fimi -- Deeper and deeper into the wood: forests as places of transformation in The Lord of the Rings / Rebecca Merkelbach -- The forest and the city: the dichotomy of Tolkien's Istari / Dominika Nycz -- 'Raw forest' versus 'cooked city' -- L©♭vi Strauss in Middle-earth / Thomas Honegger -- 'A preference for round windows': hobbits and the Arts and Crafts movement / Karl Kinsella -- Fractures, corruption and decay: understanding speculative cities through the imagery of Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul and Metropolis / Jennifer Harwood-Smith -- The forests and the trees: Sal and Ian in Fa©±rie / Verlyn Flieger -- 'The cedar is fallen': empire, deforestation and the fall of N©ơmenor / Gerard Hynes -- 'Sacred and of immense antiquity': Tolkien's use of riddles in The Hobbit / Erin Sebo -- Less noise, more green: cultural materialism and the reverse discourse of the wild in Tolkien's The Hobbit / Ian Kinane -- Tolkien and Dante's earthly paradise: enculturing nature / Alison Milbank -- The party tree and its roots in the Spanish Civil War / Meg Black -- The tower and the ruin: the past in J.R.R. Tolkien's works / Michael D.C. Drout.

ISBN:

184682429X
9781846824296

OCLC:

(OCoLC)870441980

LCCN:

2013498833

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)