Defending Middle-Earth Tolkien: Myth and Modernity

Name: Defending Middle-Earth Tolkien: Myth and Modernity
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ISBN: 9780618478859

ISBN-10: 061847885X

ISBN-13: 9780618478859

Edition: 2004

Authors: Patrick Curry

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What are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading The Lord of the Rings? Newly reissued with a new afterword, Patrick Curry's Defending Middle-earth argues, in part, that Tolkien has found a way to provide something close to spirit in a secular age. His focus is on three main aspects of Tolkien's fiction: the social and political structure of Middle-earth and how the varying cultures within it find common cause in the face of a shared threat; the nature and ecology of Middle-earth and how what we think of as the natural world joins the battle against mindless, mechanized destruction; and the spirituality and ethics of Middle-earth, for which Curry provides a…

Book details

Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 10/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: Radical Nostalgia


The Story


Readers vs. Critics


Postmodernity in Middle-earth


Middle-earth in Postmodernity


Three Worlds in One


A Mythology for England?


A Great Book?



The Shire: Culture, Society and Politics


Englishness


Country Folk


Nation and Class


A Pastoral Fantasy?


Fascist?


Politics in Middle-earth


Radical Nostalgia


Activism


'Escapism'



Middle-Earth: Nature and Ecology


Place


Nature in Middle-Earth


Forests, Woods and Trees


The War on Trees


The Tree of Life


Tolkien and Trees


The Ring


Magic vs. Enchantment


The Ring as Megamachine


Mordor on Earth


The War on Life


Selling Ourselves


On 'Sentimentality'


Life's a Beech


Save Us from the Experts



The Sea: Spirituality and Ethics


The 'Problem' of Evil


Death


Luck, Fate, Providence


A Christian Work?


A Pagan Work?


Wizards and Stars


All and None


Post-Christian/Neo-Pagan/New Times


From Religion to Myth to Fantasy



Fantasy, Literature and the Mythopoeic Imagination


Loss and Consolation


Myth


Local Mythology


Universal Myth


Back to Myth


Other Approaches to Myth


Story


Fantasy


The Lord of the Rings as Fantasy


Disney World


Angela Carter


Discworld


Tolkien's True Company



Conclusion: Hope without Guarantees


The Elements


Place


Wonder


Hope


Afterword


References


Bibliography


Index