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

Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien is a collection of articles about J.R.R. Tolkien and the role of women in his writings.

Contents
  • Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan, "Introduction: Perilous and Fair, Ancient and Modern, Luminous and Powerful"

Historical Perspectives

  • Robin Anne Reid, "The History of Scholarship on Female Characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium: A Feminist Bibliographic Essay"
  • Sharin Schroeder, "She-who-must-not-be-ignored: Gender and Genre in The Lord of the Rings and the Victorian Boys' Book"
  • John D. Rateliff, "The Missing Women: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lifelong Support for Women's Higher Education"

Power of Gender

  • Melanie A. Rawls, "The Feminine Principle in Tolkien"
  • Nancy Enright, "Tolkien's Females and the Defining of Power"
  • Edith L. Crowe, "Power in Arda: Sources, Uses, and Misuses"

Specific Characters

  • Romuald I. Lakowski, "The Fall and Repentance of Galadriel"
  • Cami D. Agan, "Lúthien Tinúviel and Bodily Desire in the Lay of Leithian"
  • Kristine Larsen, "The Power of Pity and Tears: The Evolution of Nienna in the Legendarium"
  • Melissa A. Smith, "At Home and Abroad: Éowyn's Two-fold Figuring as War Bride in The Lord of the Rings"

Earlier Literary Contexts

  • Leslie A. Donovan, "The Valkyrie Reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Éowyn, and Arwen"
  • Phoebe C. Linton, "Speech and Silence in The Lord of the Rings: Medieval Romance and the Transitions of Éowyn"
  • Maureen Thum, "Hidden in Plain View: Strategizing Unconventionality in Shakespeare's and Tolkien's Portraits of Women"

Women Readers

  • Una McCormack, "Finding Ourselves in the (Un)Mapped Lands: Women's Reparative Readings of The Lord of the Rings"
Referencias

1. Esta ficha se ha importado inicialmente de TolkienGateway.net el día 29/05/2026.

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