Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien

by Melissa A. Smith, Janet Brennan Croft, Leslie A. Donovan

Since the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pedestals. To remedy such claims that Tolkien's fiction has nothing useful or modern to say about women, Perilous and Fair focuses critical attention on views that interpret women in Tolkien's works and life as enacting essential, rather...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887726012
• ISBN13: 9781887726016
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Mythopoeic Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"