Title: Ents, elves, and Eriador : the environmental vision of J.R.R. Tolkien /
Authors: Dickerson, Matthew T., 1963-; Evans, Jonathan D. 1954-
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Tolkien, J. R. R. Knowledge Environmental sciences.; Tolkien, J. R. R. Criticism and interpretation.; Ecology in literature.; Nature in literature.; Human ecology in literature; Middle Earth (Imaginary place); Environmentalism; Ecocriticism.; Environmental literature History and criticism.
Contents: 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.