Ents, elves, and Eriador : the environmental vision of J.R.R. Tolkien /
Dickerson, Matthew T.,1963-
Evans, Jonathan D.(Jonathan Duane),1954-
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index.
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.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Environmentalism.
Ecocriticism.
Environmental literature