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Title Page

Preface

· 1 · INTRODUCTION: RADICAL NOSTALGIA

The Story

Readers vs. Critics

Postmodernity in Middle-earth

Middle-earth in Postmodernity

Three Worlds in One

A Mythology for England?

A Great Book?

· 2 · THE SHIRE: CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Englishness

Country Folk

Nation and Class

A Pastoral Fantasy?

Fascist?

Politics in Middle-earth

Radical Nostalgia

Activum

‘Escapism’

· 3 · MIDDLE-EARTH: NATURE AND ECOLOGY

Place

Nature in Middle-earth

Forests, Woods and Trees

The War on Trees

The Tree of Life

Tolkien and Trees

The Ring

Magic vs. Enchantment

The Ring as Megamachine

Mordor on Earth

The War on Life

Selling Ourselves

On ‘Sentimentality’

Life’s a Beech

Save Us from the Experts

· 4 · THE SEA: SPIRITUALITY AND ETHICS

The ‘Problem’ of Evil

Death

Luck, Fate, Providence

A Christian Work?

A Pagan Work?

Wizards and Stars

All and None

Post-Christian/Neo-Pagan/New Times

From Religion to Myth to Fantasy

· 5 · FANTASY, LITERATURE AND THE MYTHOPOEIC IMAGINATION

Loss and Consolation

Myth

Local Mythology

Universal Myth

Back to Myth

Other Approaches to Myth

Story

Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings as Fantasy

Disney World

Angela Carter

Discworld

Tolkien’s True Company

· 6 · CONCLUSION: HOPE WITHOUT GUARANTEES

The Elements

Place

Wonder

Hope

Afterword

About the Author

References

Bibliography

Index

Praise

Copyright

About the Publisher