num_pages: 208
description: What are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading The Lord of the Rings? Newly reissued with a new afterword, Patrick Curry's Defending Middle-earth argues, in part, that Tolkien has found a way to provide something close to spirit in a secular age. His focus is on three main aspects of Tolkien's the social and political structure of Middle-earth and how the varying cultures within it find common cause in the face of a shared threat; the nature and ecology of Middle-earth and how what we think of as the natural world joins the battle against mindless, mechanized destruction; and the spirituality and ethics of Middle-earth, for which Curry provides a particularly insightful and resonant examination that will deepen the understanding of the millions of fans who have taken The Lord of the Rings to heart.
language: English
title: Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity
titlecomplete: Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity
genres: Essays, Mythology, Philosophy, Biography, School, Literature, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 214
publisher: Mariner Books