Hobbits, Ents, and Dæmons: Ecocritical Thought Embodied in the Fantastic

This paper investigates the occurrence of ecocritical thought in two canonical fantasy epics, The Lord of The Rings (1954–1955) by J. R. R. Tolkien and His Dark Materials (1995–2000) by Philip Pullman. Using current ecocritical theory as well as writers and critics of speculative fiction to study th...

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Published in:Fafnir
Main Author: Gry Ulstein
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 2015-12-01
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Online Access:http://journal.finfar.org/articles/hobbits-ents-and-daemons-ecocritical-thought-embodied-in-the-fantastic/