'...the articles are easily comprehensible to ordinary educated readers with no background in poststructuralism or subaltern studies...there is plenty here to stimulate thought as well as argument. Altogether, this is a highly recommendable read, at an affordable price.' Amonhen 199 Bulletin of the Tolkien Society

David Doughan

mention- Today's Books, Oct. 10, 2006

Review (Dutch) 'Lembas' - Magazine of the Dutch Tolkien Society - Unquendor

Sjoerd van der Weide

"This useful, scholarly, at times provocative, collection of recent essays provides the Tolkien scholar and student alike with a good idea of directions recent Tolkien criticism has taken... this will be a good collection for libraries, Tolkien scholars, and students."- Don Riggs, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Summer 2006, 17.2

International Association for the Fantastic Arts

'...Eaglestone and his contributors evince much greater theoretical sophistication, and they take Tolkein's work more seriously. In short, Reading "The Lord of the Rings" realizes its goal - "to reintegrate The Lord of the Rings into the broad sweep of current literary critical and theoretical interests"- with impressive success... indisputably a good thing, and a sign of the rude new health of Tolkien studies.'- Patrick Curry, Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review

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