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20th August 2026: Environmentalism in Tolkien's Middle-earth published
Environmentalism in Tolkien's Middle-earth brings together ten essays exploring Tolkien as a proto-environmentalist and deep ecologist before the term existed. From the tree-herding Ents of Fangorn to the maternal nature goddesses of The Silmarillion, from the ethical mining of Erebor to the corrupted wasteland of Mordor, the contributors reveal how Tolkien's legendarium presents a morally charged vision of humanity's relationship with the natural world. Drawing on ecocriticism, Jungian psychology, postcolonial theory, and deep ecology, the volume traces an evolution in Tolkien's ecological imagination across his entire body of work.
Swiss Tolkien Conference 2025
Most of the contributions in this volume originated as papers delivered at the first annual Swiss Tolkien conference, held at the University of Zurich on 15th March 2025 under the title "Environmentalism in Tolkien's World: Ecocritical Perspectives on Middle-earth." The conference was jointly organised by the Schweizerische Tolkienfördergesellschaft in cooperation with the University of Zurich (ISEK – Institute for Popular Literature and Media), the University of Lausanne, and the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. We are grateful to all three institutions for their support, and in particular to the local host, Prof. Dr. Christine Lötscher, for making that day possible.
More on this event: tolkien-tagung.ch
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