Abstract
Rhetorically, the The Lord of the Rings seems to insist on being read in conjunction with the ‘Silmarillion’ material from Tolkien’s greater legendarium. For reasons specified in Chapter 1 this book draws primarily on the version of Tolkien’s mythology presented in The Silmarillion. Contextual information from the publication history of The Lord of the Rings underscores the necessity of reading these texts together: Tolkien broke his longstanding agreement for publication with Allen & Unwin on the prospect of having The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings jointly published (Scull and Hammond, 2006, p. 542). Drawing on the theoretical and methodological basis presented in the Introduction, this chapter gives a literary analysis of ethical aspects of The Lord of the Rings.1
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© 2015 Lykke Guanio-Uluru
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Guanio-Uluru, L. (2015). Ethics and Form in The Lord of the Rings. In: Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137469694_2
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