Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity

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 particularly insightful and resonant examination that will deepen the understanding of the millions of fans who have taken The Lord of the Rings to heart.

Author: Patrick Curry
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 10/21/2004
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.48w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9780618478859
ISBN10: 061847885X
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Reference