• By Patrick Curry

• Subtitled "Tolkien: Myth and Modernity"

• ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618478859

• $12.00

• ISBN-10: 061847885X

• Trade Paperback

• 208 pages

• Publication Date: 10/21/2004

• 5.5" x 8.25"

Publisher's description: "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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