The Body in Tolkien’s Legendarium

• Introduction
  • by Christopher Vaccaro

Part I. The Transformation of the Body

• "The Body in Question: The Unhealed Wounds of Frodo Baggins"
  • by Verlyn Flieger
• "Incorporeality and Transformation in The Lord of the Rings"
  • by Yvette Kisor
• "Frodo's Body: Liminality and the Experience of War"
  • by Anna Smol

Part II. The Body and the Spirit

• "The Hröa and Fëa of Middle-earth: Health, Ecology and the War"
  • by Matthew Dickerson
• "The Ugly Elf: Orc Bodies, Perversion, and Redemption The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings"
  • by Jolanta N. Komornicka

Part III. The Discursive Body

• "Light (noun, 1) or Light (adjective, 14b)? Female Bodies and Femininities in The Lord of the Rings"
  • by Robin Anne Reid
• "A Body of Myth: Representing Sauron in The Lord of the Rings"
  • by Gergely Nagy

Part IV. The Body and the Source Material

• "Emblematic Bodies: Tolkien and the Depiction of Female Physical Presence"
  • by James T. Williamson
• "Extending the Reach of the Invisible Hand: A Gift Looks for Gain in the Gifting Economy of Middle-earth"
  • by Jennifer Culver
• "Tolkien’s Whimsical Mode: Physicalities in The Hobbit"
  • by Christopher Vaccaro
• About the Contributors
• Index

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