Flora of Middle-Earth

plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium

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Walter S. Judd: Flora of Middle-Earth (2017)

406 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2017

ISBN:
978-0-19-027631-7
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OCLC Number:
960030168

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"Few settings in literature are as widely known or celebrated as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. The natural landscape plays a major role in nearly all of Tolkien's major works, and readers have come to view the geography of this fictional universe as integral to understanding and enjoying Tolkien's works. And in laying out this continent, Tolkien paid special attention to its plant life; in total, over 160 plants are explicitly mentioned and described as a part of Middle-Earth. Nearly all of these plants are real species, and many of the fictional plants are based on scientifically grounded botanic principles. In Flora of Middle Earth: Plants of Tolkien's Legendarium, botanist Walter Judd gives a detailed species account of every plant found in Tolkien's universe, complete with the etymology of the plant's name, a discussion of its significance within Tolkien's work, a description of the plant's distribution and ecology, and an original hand-drawn …

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Subjects

  • Botany in literature
  • Trees in literature
  • Plants in literature
  • Ecology in literature