Beautifully illustrated with dozens of original full-color and black-and-white drawings, "The Plants of Middle-earth" connects readers visually to the world of Middle-earth, its cultures and characters and the scenes of their adventures. Tolkien's use of flowers, herbs, trees, and other flora creates verisimilitude in Middle-earth, with the flora serving important narrative functions. This botanical tour through Middle-earth increases appreciation of Tolkien's contribution as preserver and transmitter of English cultural ...
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Beautifully illustrated with dozens of original full-color and black-and-white drawings, "The Plants of Middle-earth" connects readers visually to the world of Middle-earth, its cultures and characters and the scenes of their adventures. Tolkien's use of flowers, herbs, trees, and other flora creates verisimilitude in Middle-earth, with the flora serving important narrative functions. This botanical tour through Middle-earth increases appreciation of Tolkien's contribution as preserver and transmitter of English cultural expression, provides a refreshing and enlivening perspective for approaching and experiencing Tolkien's text, and allows readers to observe his artistry as sub-creator and his imaginative life as medievalist, philologist, scholar, and gardener. "The Plants of Middle-earth" draws on biography, literary sources, and cultural history and is unique in using botany as the focal point for examining the complex network of elements that comprise Tolkien's creation. Each chapter includes the plants' description, uses, history, and lore, which frequently lead to their thematic and interpretive implications. The book will appeal to general readers, students, and teachers of Tolkien as well as to those with an interest in plant lore and botanical illustration.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Plants A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full dark green cloth boards. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. 124 pages. Beautiful full-color and b&w drawings.
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As New in As New jacket. Botany and Sub-creation. Fine or As New Condition. No visible defects. Binding tight, pages clean. Dust jacket without visible wear. Pictures available upon request. dw.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0873388836. Binding tight. Pages unmarked and unsullied. Cloth cover has little or no wear. Dustjacket has minimal wear to edges, and otherwise fine.; 9.1 X 6.2 X 0.8 inches; 124 pages.