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99 Cents Short (Hardcover)
Thomas Campbell; Illustrated by Liam Campbell; Edited by Jasmine Cabanaw
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R524
Discovery Miles 5 240
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A new death for the old world, winds of industrial change that gust
across green hills and dales, machines and callous hearts that dig
deep into the ecosystems of Earth as trees crash upon the shrinking
forest floors and ecological devastation is visited upon the land.
This is the darkest hour of Middle-earth as presented in J.R.R.
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - how curiously all of this
resembles our reality, and the environmental crisis that threatens
the modern world... This new study, in a clear and engaging tone,
explores and unfolds the environmental dimension of Tolkien's work
and worldview, not only in terms of the themes observable in his
masterwork The Lord of the Rings, but also across his wider
fiction, essays and private papers. With discerning recourse to the
work of leading ecologists and eco-thinkers, this book argues that
Tolkien - in his unfolding narratives of machine against nature,
where regimes of power ruthlessly move against the land - holds up
a mirror to the ecological crisis of the primary world and offers a
vivid depiction of (and thus a warning against) where the reckless
abandonment of concern for the green face of the planet may lead.
Tolkien, Campbell argues, by virtue of his consistent adherence to
such striking and compelling environmental themes, was a visionary
defender of nature who, before the emergence of any organised Green
Movement, may have anticipated the scale of the environmental
emergency that was yet to dawn. In the exploration of Tolkien's
green themes and the critical analysis of his tales of Middle-earth
and wider fiction, Campbell re-evaluates Tolkien as a contemporary
writer, and offers new insights into Tolkien's work and new
perspectives on the literature of the fantastic.
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