Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity
by Patrick Curry
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- 9780618478859
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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 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.
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- Title
- Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity
- Author
- Patrick Curry
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
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- 2
- ISBN 10
- 061847885X
- ISBN 13
- 9780618478859
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2004
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