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Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Conventions and Abbreviations <b> Part I. ¿The Tides of the World¿: Gandalfian Stewardship and the Foundations of Tolkien¿s Vision</b> Chapter 1. Varda, Yavanna, and the Value of Creation Chapter 2. Gandalf, Stewardship, and Tomorrow¿s Weather <b>Part II. ¿The Succour of Those Years Wherein We Are Set¿: A Complex Ecology of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Feraculture</b> Chapter 3. Hobbits and the Agrarian Society of the Shire Chapter 4. Horticulture and the Aesthetic of the Elves Chapter 5. Woods, Wildness, and the Feraculture of the Ents Chapter 6. The Necessity of Margins in Middle-earth¿s Mingled Ecologies Chapter 7. The Ecology of Ham, Niggles¿ Parish, and Wootton Major <b>Part III. ¿Uprooting the Evil in the Fields That We Know¿: Following the Vision, and the Consequences of Ignoring It</b> Chapter 8. Three Faces of Mordor Chapter 9. Rousing the Shire Chapter 10. Environmentalism, Transcendence, and Action Conclusion: Some Practical Matters Afterword Appendix: Further Reading Notes Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Knowledge -- Environmental sciences.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Middle Earth (Imaginary place).
Environmentalism.
Ecocriticism.
Environmental literature -- History and criticism.