Tolkien and Alterity
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Tolkien and Alterity

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Tolkien and Alterity

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This exciting collection of essays explores the role of the Other in Tolkien's fiction, his life, and the pertinent criticism. It critically examines issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, language, and identity in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and lesser-known works by Tolkien. The chapters consider characters such as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Saruman, Éowyn, and the Orcs as well as discussions of how language and identity function in the source texts. The analysis of Tolkien's work is set against an examination of his life, personal writing, and beliefs. Each essay takes as its central position the idea that how Tolkien responds to that which is different, to that which is "Other, " serves as a register of his ethics and moral philosophy. In the aggregate, they provide evidence of Tolkien's acceptance of alterity.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Editors and Contributors
  3. Chapter 1 Introduction
  4. Part I The State of the Scholarship
  5. Chapter 2 Queer Tolkien: A Bibliographical Essay on Tolkien and Alterity
  6. Chapter 3 Race in Tolkien Studies: A Bibliographic Essay
  7. Part II Women and the Feminine
  8. Chapter 4 Revising Lobelia
  9. Chapter 5 Medieval Organicism or Modern Feminist Science? Bombadil, Elves, and Mother Nature
  10. Part III The Queer
  11. Chapter 6 Cinema, Sexuality, Mechanical Reproduction
  12. Chapter 7 Saruman’s Sodomitic Resonances: Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturae and J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
  13. Chapter 8 Cruising Faery: Queer Desire in Giles, Niggle, and Smith
  14. Part IV Language
  15. Chapter 9 Language and Alterity in Tolkien and LĂ©vinas
  16. Chapter 10 The Orcs and the Others: Familiarity as Estrangement in The Lord of the Rings
  17. Part V Identities
  18. Chapter 11 Silmarils and Obsession: The Undoing of FĂ«anor
  19. Chapter 12 The Other as Kolbítr: Tolkien’s Faramir and Éowyn as Alfred and Æthelfléd
  20. Index

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