J.R.R. Tolkien: The Forest and the City

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Forest and the City is a collection of papers from a 2012 conference of the same name held at Trinity College Dublin. Overseen by Helen Conrad-O'Briain and Gerard Hynes, the book was published by Four Courts Press in 2013, and deals with topics of the woods, fauna, and industrialization in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.
== Essays ==
* Tom Shippey, "Goths and Roman in Tolkien's Imagination"
* Jane Suzanne Carroll, "Civil Pleasures in Unexpected Places: An Introduction to the Etiquette of Middle-earth"
* Dimitra Fimi, "'Wildman of the Woods': Inscribing Tragedy on the Landscape of Middle-earth in The Children of Húrin"
* Rebecca Merkelbach, "Deeper and Deeper into the Wood: Forests as Places of Transformation in The Lord of the Rings"
* Dominika Nycz, "The Forest and the City: The Dichotomy of Tolkien's Istari"
* Thomas Honegger, "'Raw Forest' versus 'Cooked City' — Lévi-Strauss in Middle-earth"
* Karl Kinsella, "'A Preference for Round Windows': Hobbits and the Arts and Crafts Movement"
* Jennifer Harwood-Smith, "Fractures, Corruption and Decay: Understanding Speculative Cities through the Imagery of Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul and Metropolis"
* Verlyn Flieger, "The Forests and the Trees: Sal and Ian in Faërie"
* Gerard Hynes, "'The Cedar is Fallen': Empire, Deforestation and the Fall of Númenor"
* Erin Sebo, "'Sacred and of Immense Antiquity': Tolkien's Use of Riddles in The Hobbit"
* Ian Kinane, "Less Noise, More Green: Cultural Materialism and the Reverse Discourse of the Wild in Tolkien's The Hobbit"
* Alison Milbank, "Tolkien and Dante's Earthly Paradise: Enculturing Nature"
* Meg Black, "The Party Tree and its Roots in the Spanish Civil War"
* Michael D.C. Drout, "The Tower and the Ruin: The Past in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works"
== External links ==
* Amazon.com
* Review by Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley in Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 1
== See also ==
* The Plants of Middle-earth: Botany and Sub-creation
* Cormarë Series
* Representations of Nature in Middle-earth
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