Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-Earth

by Robert Stuart

Book Overview

Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated by others. This book presents an analysis of Tolkien's works for conceptions of race, both racist and anti-racist. It begins by demonstrating that Tolkien was a racialist, in that his mythology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030974774
• ISBN13: 9783030974770
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"