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inkdeathinbloom's review
5.0
I enjoyed this on two levels:
1) As a hardcore Lord of the Rings fan, I enjoy critical readings of LOTR. Arda Inhabited digs into LOTR from an environmental perspective, and it is intermittently fascinating and loving; a love letter to the forests and mountains and Ents, and an analysis on what we can take away from LOTR into our own environmental relationships. It was lovely on both an environmental level and a fandom level, like a really good Comic-con panel.
2) This is a lovely introduction to ecocriticism. I think that critical lenses are often difficult for the typical reader to get into, and this worked as a gentle primer and introduction to the topic, educating the reader on ecocriticism, environmentalism, and an awareness of environmental relationships, through the already familiar territory of LOTR.
If you're into either LOTR or environmentalism/ecocriticism, I would highly recommend.
***I listened to this on audiobook. I must warn all LOTR fans that the audiobook was surely punking us all. The narrator of the audiobook had clearly never seen or heard of LOTR before, and accordingly, they mispronounced almost everything (except somehow, the Dwarvish names- those they said with perfect inflection; Moria was said like Mariah- it was horrifying and only the tip of the iceberg).
1) As a hardcore Lord of the Rings fan, I enjoy critical readings of LOTR. Arda Inhabited digs into LOTR from an environmental perspective, and it is intermittently fascinating and loving; a love letter to the forests and mountains and Ents, and an analysis on what we can take away from LOTR into our own environmental relationships. It was lovely on both an environmental level and a fandom level, like a really good Comic-con panel.
2) This is a lovely introduction to ecocriticism. I think that critical lenses are often difficult for the typical reader to get into, and this worked as a gentle primer and introduction to the topic, educating the reader on ecocriticism, environmentalism, and an awareness of environmental relationships, through the already familiar territory of LOTR.
If you're into either LOTR or environmentalism/ecocriticism, I would highly recommend.
***I listened to this on audiobook. I must warn all LOTR fans that the audiobook was surely punking us all. The narrator of the audiobook had clearly never seen or heard of LOTR before, and accordingly, they mispronounced almost everything (except somehow, the Dwarvish names- those they said with perfect inflection; Moria was said like Mariah- it was horrifying and only the tip of the iceberg).
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