Description: Table of Contents Abbreviations Introduction (Christopher Vaccaro) Part I. The Transformation of the Body The Body in Question: The Unhealed Wounds of Frodo Baggins (Verlyn Flieger) Incorporeality and Transformation in The Lord of the Rings (Yvette Kisor) Frodo's Body: Liminality and the Experience of War (Anna Smol) Part II. The Body and the Spirit The Hra and Fa of Middle-earth: Health, Ecology and the War (Matthew Dickerson) The Ugly Elf: Orc Bodies, Perversion, and Redemption in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings (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 (Robin Anne Reid) A Body of Myth: Representing Sauron in The Lord of the Rings (Gergely Nagy) Part IV. The Body and the Source Material Emblematic Bodies: Tolkien and the Depiction of Female Physical Presence (James T. Williamson) Extending the Reach of the Invisible Hand: A Gift Looks for Gain in the Gifting Economy of Middle-earth (Jennifer Culver) Tolkien's Whimsical Mode: Physicalities in The Hobbit (Christopher Vaccaro) About the Contributors Index

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