Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-Earth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030974770)

Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated by others. This book presents an analysis of Tolkien's works for conceptions of race, both racist and anti-racist. It begins by demonstrating that Tolkien was a racialist, in that his mythology is established on the basis of different races with different characteristics, and then poses the key question "Was Tolkien racist?" Robert Stuart engages the discourse and research associated with the ways in which racism and anti-racism relate Tolkien to his fascist and imperialist contemporaries and to twenty-first-century neo-Nazis and White Supremacists--including White Supremacy, genocide, blood-and-soil philology, anti-Semitism, and aristocratic racism. Addressing a major gap in the field of Tolkien studies, Stuart focuses on race, racisms and the Tolkien legendarium.

Author: Robert Stuart
ISBN-10: 3030974774
ISBN-13: 9783030974770
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2023
Pages: 357
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.76d