Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Reclaiming Enemy-Occupied Territory: Saving Middle-earth, Narnia, Westeros, Panem, Endor, and Gallifrey
	Margaret Atwood and the Newfound Importance of Climate Fiction
	The Inklings and Religiously Informed Ecological Fiction
	(Un)Intentional Cli-Fi Authors: Philip Pullman, Octavia Butler, and George R. R. Martin
1. Star Wars, Hollywood Blockbusters, and the Cultural Appropriation of J. R. R. Tolkien
	Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth and the Cinematic Ecological War Narrative
	Tolkien’s Skeptical View of Film Adaptations
	How to Ruin The Hobbit—Or— So Much Depends upon Black Emperor Butterflies
	Unsuitable for Adaptation: Lord of the Rings
	The Problem of the Uniformly Evil Orc Race
2. Of Treebeard, C. S. Lewis, and the Aesthetics of Christian Environmentalism
	The Devastation of Nature in Lord of the Rings
	The Devastation of Nature in The Last Battle
	The Question of Allegory: The Space Trilogy, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Silmarillion, and The Lord of the Rings
	Tolkien’s Cordial Dislike of Allegory
	The Lewis and Tolkien Relationship
	The Fruits of “Shared Universe” Building: Reading Lewis’s The Space Trilogy (1938–1945) as a Sequel to Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (1954)
3. The Time Lord, the Daleks, and the Wardrobe
	The Doctor and the Inklings
	Doctor Who as Climate Fiction
	Is the Doctor John Lennon?
	The Daleks: An Iconic, Neofascist Menace
	Is the Doctor Running from His Own Fascist Tendencies?
	Is the Doctor Jesus Christ or Aslan? The Influence of C. S. Lewis
	The Last Great Time War and the Wars against Morgoth
4. Noah’s Ark Revisited: 2012 and Magic Lifeboats for the Wealthy
	The Flood: Tolkien’s Recurring Nightmare
	2012, Dominion Theology, and Climate Change Denial
	In a Republican-Controlled America, Is Action on Climate Change Remotely Possible?
5. Race and Disaster Capitalism in Parable of the Sower, The Strain, and Elysium
	On Elysium, Daybreakers, The Strain, and Pacific Rim
	Snowpiercer: The Perils of Hacking the Planet as a Last Resort
6. Eden Revisited: Ursula K. Le Guin, St. Francis, and the Ecofeminist Storytelling Model
	Abigail Adams, John Adams, and the Unfulfilled Promise of the American Revolution
	Overlapping Interfaith Perspectives on “The Fall”: The Fall is Ongoing; The Fall Can Be Reversed
	Replacing the Killer Story with the Life Story: Ecofeminists and Francis of Assisi
7. MaddAddam and The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood and Dystopian Science Fiction as Current Events
	MaddAddam, the Great Plains PetroBaptists, and the Return of the Wolf of Gubbio
	A Message of Hope?
8. Ur-Fascism and Populist Rebellions in Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road
	Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism in Apocalyptic Narratives
	Revolt of the Matriarchs: Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
	The Ur-Fascist as God
	Women as Victims and Heroes in the Mad Max Series
9. Tolkien’s Kind of Catholic: Suzanne Collins, Empathy, and The Hunger Games
	Identifying Tolkien’s Spiritual Successor
	Spartacus and the Roman Empire, The Hunger Games and the United States
	Katniss Everdeen and a Revolution of Empathy
10. The Cowboy and Indian Alliance: Collective Action against Climate Change in A Song of Ice and Fire and Star Trek
	Winter Isn’t Coming: Ice Zombies as an Allegory for Climate Change
	George R. R. Martin’s Inspirations for A Song of Ice and Fire
	“Jim . . . they’re dying”: Making Peace with the Klingons in Star Trek
	The Cowboy and Indian Alliance
11. What Next? Robert Crumb’s “A Short History of America” and Ending the Game of Thrones
	How Will It All End?
Epilogue. Who Owns the Legacy of J. R. R. Tolkien?
Notes
Bibliography
Index