Publisher's Synopsis
An epic in league with those of Spenser and Malory, J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings"" trilogy, begun during Hitler's rise to power, celebrates the insignificant individual as hero in the modern world. Jane Chance's critical appraisal of Tolkien's heroic masterwork explores its ""mythology of power"" - that is, how power, politics and language interact. Chance looks beyond the fantastic, self-contained world of Middle-earth to the 20th-century parallels presented in the trilogy.
