Perilous and Fair: Women in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and Life

Perilous and Fair: Women in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and Life presents fifteen essays by Tolkien experts about women in J.R.R. Tolkien's life and female characters in his Middle-earth legendarium. It was overseen by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donavan and published by the Mythopoeic Society in 2015.
Characters discussed include Shelob, Galadriel, Lúthien, Ungoliant, and Éowyn.
==Essays==
*Janet Brennan Croft & Leslie A. Donovan, “Introduction: Perilous and Fair, Ancient and Modern, Luminous and Powerful”
==== Historical Perspectives ====
*Robin Anne Reid, ”The History of Scholarship on Female Characters in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium: A Feminist Bibliographic Essay”
*John D. Rateliff, “The Missing Women: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lifelong Support for Women’s Higher Education”
*Sharin Schroeder, “She-who-must-not-be-ignored: Gender and Genre in The Lord of the Rings and the Victorian Boys’ Book”
==== Power of Gender ====
*Melanie A. Rawls, “The Feminine Principle in Tolkien”
*Nancy Enright, “Tolkien’s Females and the Defining of Power”
*Edith L. Crowe, “Power in Arda: Sources, Uses, and Misuses”
==== Specific Characters ====
*Romuald I. Lakowski, “The Fall and Repentance of Galadriel”
*Cami D. Agan, “Lúthien Tinúviel and Bodily Desire in the Lay of Leithian”
*Kristine Larsen, “The Power of Pity and Tears: The Evolution of Nienna in the Legendarium”
*Melissa A. Smith, “At Home and Abroad: Éowyn’s Two-fold Figuring as War Bride in The Lord of the Rings”
==== Earlier Literary Contexts ====
*Leslie A. Donovan, “The Valkyrie Reflex in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Éowyn, and Arwen”
*Phoebe C. Linton, “Speech and Silence in The Lord of the Rings: Medieval Romance and the Transitions of Éowyn”
*Maureen Thum, “Hidden in Plain View: Strategizing Unconventionality in Shakespeare’s and Tolkien’s Portraits of Women”
==== Women Readers ====
*Una McCormack, “Finding Ourselves in the (Un)Mapped Lands: Women’s Reparative Readings of The Lord of the Rings”
==External links==
*Official page
*Bookshop.org
*Barnes & Noble
== See also ==
* Women Among the Inklings: Gender, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams
* The Gallant Edith Bratt
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