The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality

The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality presents essays concerning the body and spirit in J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional world as seen mainly through The Lord of the Rings. Compiled by Christopher Vaccaro, it was published by McFarland in August 2013.
==Essays==
===Part I: The Transformation of the Body===
*Verlyn Flieger, "The Body in Question: The Unhealed Wounds of Frodo Baggins"
*Yvette Kisor, "Incorporeality and Transformation in The Lord of the Rings"
*Anna Smol, "Frodo's Body: Liminality and the Experience of War"
===Part II: The Body and the Spirit===
*Matthew Dickerson, "The Hröa and Fëa of Middle-earth: Health, Ecology and the War"
*Jolanta N. Komornicka, "The Ugly Elf: Orc Bodies, Perversion, and Redemption The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings"
===Part III: The Discursive Body===
*Robin Anne Reid, "Light (noun, 1) or Light (adjective, 14b)? Female Bodies and Femininities in The Lord of the Rings"
*Gergely Nagy, "A Body of Myth: Representing Sauron in The Lord of the Rings"
===Part IV: The Body and the Source Material===
*James T. Williamson, "Emblematic Bodies: Tolkien and the Depiction of Female Physical Presence"
*Jennifer Culver, "Extending the Reach of the Invisible Hand: A Gift Looks for Gain in the Gifting Economy of Middle-earth"
*Christopher Vaccaro, "Tolkien’s Whimsical Mode: Physicalities in The Hobbit"
==External links==
* Official page
* Bookshop.org
* Barnes & Noble
* Review by Janet Brennan Croft
==See also==
* Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey
* Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues
* War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
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