Mythcon 44 - Green and Growing: The Land and Its Inhabitants in Fantasy

Authors

The Mythopoeic Society

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

7-15-2013

Abstract

How does mythopoeic literature address the relationship between the land and its inhabitants, between the wild and the cultivated? What are their respective moral values, their dangers, and delights? Tangled forests, majestic trees, the ordered fields, the carefully tended gardens; or untamed, wild beauty: each offers a different kind of bounty to those who would live off the land. What role do advocates and protectors of the land play in fantasy literature, particularly as personified in characters such as Yavanna, Radagast, Sam Gamgee, and, of course, Tom Bombadil?

Comments

Mythcon 44

July 12-15, 2013 - Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Green and Growing: The Land and Its Inhabitants in Fantasy

Douglas A. Anderson, Franny Billingsley, guests of honor

Recommended Citation

The Mythopoeic Society, "Mythcon 44 - Green and Growing: The Land and Its Inhabitants in Fantasy" (2013). Mythcon Programs. 52.
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythprog/52