"Breaking the Dragon's Gaze: Commodity Fetishism in Tolkien's Middle-ea" by Steven Kelly
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Abstract

Examines Tolkien’s treatment of economics in Middle-earth, using tobacco as an example of a Lukácsian fetishized commodity, and explains why this is important not just as an example of world-building but as an indicator of the power and danger of unexamined economic assumptions.

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