{"product_id":"perilous-and-fair-women-in-the-works-and-life-of-j-r-r-tolkien","title":"Perilous and Fair Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Janet Brennan Croft, Leslie A. Donovan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Mythopoeic Press, 2015\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the earliest scholarship on \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003ePerilous and Fair\u003c\/i\u003e focuses critical attention on views that interpret women in Tolkien's works and life as enacting essential, rather than merely supportive roles. \u003ci\u003ePerilous and Fair\u003c\/i\u003e includes seven classic articles as well as seven new examinations of women in Tolkien's works and life. These fourteen articles bring together perspectives not only on Tolkien's most commonly discussed female characters-- Éowyn, Galadriel, and Lúthien-but also on less studied figures such as Nienna, Yavanna, Shelob, and Arwen. Among others, the collection features such diverse critical approaches and methods as literary source study, historical context, feminist theory, biographical investigation, close-reading textual analysis, Jungian archetypes, and fanfiction reader-response.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137484865705,"sku":"PHBK-9781887726016","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/2700763482860.jpg?v=1780327887","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/perilous-and-fair-women-in-the-works-and-life-of-j-r-r-tolkien","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}