Foreword by Darryl Jones
Goths and Roman in Tolkien’s imagination
Tom Shippey
Civil pleasures in unexpected places: an introduction to the etiquette of Middle-earth
Jane Suzanne Carroll
‘Wildman of the Woods’: inscribing tragedy on the landscape of Middle-earth in The children of Húrin
Dimitra Fimi
Deeper and deeper into the wood: forests as places of transformation in The lord of the rings
Rebecca Merkelbach
The forest and the city: the dichotomy of Tolkien’s Istari
Dominika Nycz
‘Raw forest’ versus ‘cooked city’ – Lévi-Strauss in Middle-earth
Thomas Honegger
‘A preference for round windows’: hobbits and the Arts and Crafts movement
Karl Kinsella
Fractures, corruption and decay: understanding speculative cities through the imagery of Minas Tirith, Minas Morgul and Metropolis
Jennifer Harwood-Smith
The forests and the trees: Sal and Ian in Faërie
Verlyn Flieger
‘The cedar is fallen’: empire, deforestation and the fall of Númenor
Gerard Hynes
‘Sacred and of immense antiquity’: Tolkien’s use of riddles in The Hobbit
Erin Sebo
Less noise, more green: cultural materialism and the reverse discourse of the wild in Tolkien’s The Hobbit
Ian Kinane
Tolkien and Dante’s Earthly Paradise: enculturing nature
Alison Milbank
The party tree and its roots in the Spanish Civil War
Meg Black
The tower and the ruin: the past in J.R.R. Tolkien’s works
Michael D.C. Drout