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

With a Foreword by John Elder and an Afterword by Tom Shippey Though not often recognized as environmental or agrarian literature, the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien demonstrate a complex and comprehensive ecological philosophy. The ecology of Middle-earth portrayed in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings,...

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Main Authors: Dickerson, Matthew T., 1963- (Author), Evans, Jonathan D. (Jonathan Duane), 1954- (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006.
叢編:Culture of the land: a series in the new agrarianism.
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書本目錄:
  • 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.