Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft

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

Janet Brennan Croft with Leslie A. Donovan

358 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction fantasy challenging informative slow-paced
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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 fic...

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