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“The Sweet and the Bitter”: Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is a book by Amy Amendt-Raduege studying matters of death, heroism, honoring the deceased, and the afterlife in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It was published in November 2017 by The Kent State University Press.
The book won the Mythopoeic Society's award for Inklings Studies in 2020.[1]
- "[Although Amendt-Raduege] supports her arguments with a wide array of scholarly sources, her clear prose and explanations render this text truly accessible to the general reader. . . . Such a volume serves an important function at any time in the human experience. Amendt-Raduege has crafted a powerful, extended meditation on facing the end of life, preparing for a good death, avoiding a bad one, and memorializing those who have passed from this world. General fans of The Lord of the Rings as well as specialists will appreciate this book."
- —Journal of Tolkien Research
Chapters[]
- The Wages of Heroism
- The Bitter End
- Songs and Stones
- Haunting the Dead
- Applicability: "Hope without Guarantees"
External links[]
- Official page
- Barnes & Noble
- Amazon.com
- Review by Lance A. Green for Edinburgh University Press' Journal of Inklings Studies