Re: [Marxism] JRR Tolkien: Ecosystems of Middle Earth

[srobin21@xxxxxxxxxxx]

It is interesting to see Tolkien's work from the perspective of a naturalist. 
My understanding is that he was part of a school of writers in the 1920s known 
as "the Oxford Christians" which included C.S. Lewis (much beloved by Christian 
fundamentalists) and another one with the last name of Williams (whose first 
name I cannot now recall, but who wrote "The Place of the Lion").  Where 
Tolkien's ecological understanding fits in with his created mythos of titantic, 
and cyclic, conflicts between good and evil is not clear to me, although one 
cannot deny the attention he pays to the botanical world in his writings. Steve

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