Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity

by Patrick Curry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 061847885X
• ISBN13: 9780618478859
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"