Ents, elves, and Eriador : the environmental vision of J.R.R. Tolkien / Matthew Dickerson and Jonathan Evans.

Author: Dickerson, Matthew T., 1963-

Imprint:Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.

Descriptionxxvi, 316 p. ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index.

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