Flora Of Middle-Earth : Plants Of J.R.R. Tolkie...
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Flora Of Middle-Earth : Plants Of J.R.R. Tolkie...
Tolkien learnt about plants, their history and cultivation from his mother, from his reading, from visiting show gardens, by gardening, and by studying medieval herbals, which taught him about the lore and supposed magical properties of certain plants.[2] He stated that the book that most influenced him as a teenager was C. A. Johns's Flowers of the Field, a flora of the British Isles, which he called his "most treasured volume".[1] He explained that he was intrigued by the diversity of plant forms, as he had a "special fascination ... in the variations and permutations of flowers that are the evident kin of those I know".[1][3] Among his artworks are a series of paintings of grasses and other plants, often with the names he gave them in Quenya, one of his invented Elvish languages.[4] These could be realistic or, as with his pencil and ink drawing of ranalinque or "moon-grass", stylized, in the manner of Art Nouveau.[1]
Tolkien mentions many plants appropriate to the geographical and climatic zones through which his characters pass, especially in The Lord of the Rings, the accurate plant ecology conveying a strong sense of the reality of Middle-earth. Scholars such as Matthew Dickerson, Jonathan Evans, and Walter S. Judd with Graham Judd, have described the botany and ecology of Middle-earth in some detail, from the agriculture of the Shire[5] to the horticulture of the Elves,[6] the wildwood of the Ents,[7] and the polluted volcanic landscape of Mordor.[8] Walter and Graham Judd have examined the Middle-earth flora and its various plant communities from Arctic tundra to hot deserts,[9] have listed and illustrated the many identifiable plant species from alders to yews, not forgetting cultivated plants from beans to flax,[10] and have provided identification keys to the plants and flowering herbs involved.[11]
The scholar Patrick Currystates that "Tolkien obviously had a particular affection for flora", especially trees, noting that the birch was his "personal 'totem'".[21] Tom Shippey writes that Tolkien's many mentions of plants reveal a deep and continuous interest:
In this class, we will explore the flora of Michigan at the UMBS through works of Tolkien. We will study plants in the field, lear about their habitats, and their life history while also discussing how those characteristics are important to Tolkien's works. Spend the summer in Middle Earth!
Reviewed by: Flora of Middle-earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd Lynn Forest-Hill Flora of Middle-earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium, by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 406 pp. 26.49/$34.95 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-19-027631-7. In 1982 Tom Shippey remarked that throughout Tolkien's work "there runs an obsessive interest in plants and scenery" (120). With the single exception of his created languages, there is arguably nothing more fundamental to Tolkien's vision of Middle-earth than his conceptualizing of landscapes and their flora. Together and independently they go beyond merely creating atmosphere to confer mythological and symbolic meaning and to define the familiar or alien nature of characters and cultures through their forms. In addition, as Patrick Curry remarks in the Tolkien Encyclopedia, in Tolkien's fiction: [End Page 215]
The author's forest consists of multiple zones (lands), amongwhich is a treeless glade which appears to stretch eastwards, to the entranceto the underground passageway. Further down, the southeastern part of theforest is taken up by the valley of the Withywindle, with higher groundrising above it in two terraces. Outside the glade there is much mixedvegetation; Tolkien specifically calls it "more crowded" (147).Marching with the flowing waters of the Withywindle below, the sides of thevalley are covered with willows, reeds, rushes, and many other wild plants.All around, bogs and poo
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