Ents, elves, and Eriador : the environmental vision of J.R.R. Tolkien /
With a Foreword by John Elder and an Afterword by Tom Shippey Though not often recognized as environmental or agrarian literature, the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien demonstrate a complex and comprehensive ecological philosophy. The ecology of Middle-earth portrayed in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2006.
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Colección: | Culture of the land: a series in the new agrarianism.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.