Book description
" With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Rings
film trilogy, the popularity of the works of J. R.R. Tolkien is
unparalleled. Tolkien's books continue to be bestsellers decades after
their original publication. An epic in league with those of Spenser
and Malory, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, begun during Hitler's rise
to power, celebrates the insignificant individual as hero in the
modern world. Jane Chance's critical appraisal of Tolkien's heroic
masterwork is the first to explore its "mythology of
power"--that is, how power, politics, and language interact.
Chance looks beyond the fantastic, self-contained world of
Middle-earth to the twentieth-century parallels presented in the trilogy.
"Chance's companion volumes on Tolkien are brilliantly
written and critically significant. Her understanding of his works is
profound, and she convincingly confirms him as a major writer of the
20th century." -- Kritikon Litterarum
