Tolkien

The forest and the city

Helen Conrad-O'Briain & Gerard Hynes editors

Foreword by Darryl Jones

Goths and Roman in Tolkien’s imagination
Tom Shippey

Civil pleasures in unexpected places: an introduction to the etiquette of Middle-earth
Jane Suzanne Carroll

‘Wildman of the Woods’: inscribing tragedy on the landscape of Middle-earth in The children of Húrin
Dimitra Fimi

Deeper and deeper into the wood: forests as places of transformation in The lord of the rings
Rebecca Merkelbach

The forest and the city: the dichotomy of Tolkien’s Istari
Dominika Nycz

‘Raw forest’ versus ‘cooked city’ – Lévi-Strauss in Middle-earth
Thomas Honegger

‘A preference for round windows’: hobbits and the Arts and Crafts movement
Karl Kinsella

Fractures, corruption and decay: understanding speculative cities through the imagery of Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul and Metropolis
Jennifer Harwood-Smith

The forests and the trees: Sal and Ian in Faërie
Verlyn Flieger

‘The cedar is fallen’: empire, deforestation and the fall of Númenor
Gerard Hynes

‘Sacred and of immense antiquity’: Tolkien’s use of riddles in The Hobbit
Erin Sebo

Less noise, more green: cultural materialism and the reverse discourse of the wild in Tolkien’s The Hobbit
Ian Kinane

Tolkien and Dante’s Earthly Paradise: enculturing nature
Alison Milbank

The party tree and its roots in the Spanish Civil War
Meg Black

The tower and the ruin: the past in J.R.R. Tolkien’s works
Michael D.C. Drout