The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium

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Introduction
	Notes
	Works Consulted
The Transformation of the Body
	The Body in Question
		The Unhealed Wounds of Frodo Baggins
			Coda
			Notes
			Works Consulted
	Incorporeality and Transformation in The Lord of the Rings1
		Notes
		Works Consulted
	Frodo’s Body
		Liminality and the Experience of War1
			Notes
			Works Consulted
The Body and the Spirit
	The Hröa and Fëa of Middle-earth
		Health, Ecology and the War
			Glimpses of the Unseen: Spirit in Middle-earth
			Healing the Body and the Soul
			Body, Spirit, and Tolkien’s Environmentalism
			Not Against Flesh and Blood
			Conclusion
			Notes
			Works Consulted
	The Ugly Elf
		Orc Bodies, Perversion, and Redemption in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings1
			Notes
			Works Consulted
The Discursive Body
	Light (noun, 1) or Light (adjective, 14b)?
		Female Bodies and Femininities in The Lord of the Rings
			Agency
			Imagery
			Appendix A: LOTR Excerpts & Stylistic Analysis
				Goldberry
				Arwen
				Galadriel
				Éowyn
				Shelob
			Notes
			Works Consulted
	A Body of Myth
		Representing Sauron in The Lord of the Rings
			Mythological Subjects and the Body
			Sauron and the Body: A Short Biography of a Dark Lord
			From the Physical to the Theoretical: Somebody Without a Body
			The Power and the Body: Sauron and the Ring
			Conclusions
			Notes
			Works Consulted
The Body and the Source Material
	Emblematic Bodies
		Tolkien and the Depiction of Female Physical Presence
			Goldberry
			Galadriel
			Arwen
			Éowyn
			Notes
			Works Consulted
	Extending the Reach of the Invisible Hand
		A Gift Looks for Gain in the Gifting Economy of Middle-earth
			The Process of Gifting
			The Giver
			The Gifted
			The Darker Side of Gifting
			Unresolved Issues
			Notes
			Works Consulted
	Tolkien’s Whimsical Mode
		Physicalities in The Hobbit
			Shifting Physicalities in The Hobbit
			Conclusion
			Notes
			Works Consulted
	About the Contributors
	List of Names and Terms