The lord of the rings : the mythology of power
"An epic in league with those of Spenser and Malory, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, begun during Hitler's rise to power, celebrates the insignificant individual as hero in the modern world. Jane Chance's critical appraisal of Tolkien's heroic masterwork is the first to explore its "mythology of power"--That is, how power, politics, and language interact. Chance looks beyond the fantastic, self-contained world of Middle-earth to the twentieth-century parallels presented in the trilogy."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2001
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University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, ©2001
Nonfiction
xvii, 162 pages ; 22 cm
9780813190174, 0813190177
46936088
Chronology : J.R.R. Tolkien's life and works
Introduction : a voice for the dispossessed
"Queer" hobbits : the problem of difference in the Shire
The political hobbit : The fellowship of the ring
Knowledge, language, and power : The two towers
Power and the community : The return of the king
Conclusion : heroic narrative and the power of structure