"The Sweet and the Bitter": Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

“The Sweet and the Bitter”: Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is a book by Amy Amendt-Raduege studying matters of death, heroism, honoring the deceased, and the afterlife in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It was published in November 2017 by The Kent State University Press.
The book won the Mythopoeic Society's award for Inklings Studies in 2020.https://www.mythsoc.org/awards/awards-winners.htm
==Chapters==
#The Wages of Heroism
#The Bitter End
#Songs and Stones
#Haunting the Dead
#Applicability: "Hope without Guarantees"
==External links==
*Official page
*Barnes & Noble
*Amazon.com
*Review by Lance A. Green for Edinburgh University Press' Journal of Inklings Studies
== See also ==
* Death and Immortality in Middle-earth
==References==
Category:Books
Category:Secondary literature
Category:2017 publications
Category:Publications by The Kent State University Press
Category:Mythopoeic Society award winners
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