Event Title
Event Website
https://www.mythsoc.org/oms/oms-2023.htm
Start Date
8-6-2023 6:30 PM
End Date
8-6-2023 7:20 PM
Description
After a 2008 flight over the Athasbasca oil sands, UN Water Advisor Maude Barlow sparked controversy when she compared the site to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Mordor. Over the next six years, debates and discussions revealed the power of metaphor and a fascinating case study of the impact of The Lord of the Rings on Canadian environmentalism. By tying the image of Mordor to the Athabasca oil sands, there can be both better understanding of the environmental cost of the project as well as providing a new schema for an individual’s reading of Mordor in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons, Comparative Literature Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America Commons, Literature in English, British Isles Commons, Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority Commons, Medieval Studies Commons, Modern Languages Commons, Modern Literature Commons, Other English Language and Literature Commons
The Tar Sands of Mordor
After a 2008 flight over the Athasbasca oil sands, UN Water Advisor Maude Barlow sparked controversy when she compared the site to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Mordor. Over the next six years, debates and discussions revealed the power of metaphor and a fascinating case study of the impact of The Lord of the Rings on Canadian environmentalism. By tying the image of Mordor to the Athabasca oil sands, there can be both better understanding of the environmental cost of the project as well as providing a new schema for an individual’s reading of Mordor in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Comments
SESSION VII
6:30 PM—7:20 Eastern
5:30 PM—6:20 Central
4:30 PM—5:20 Mountain
3:30 PM—4:20 Pacific
10:30 PM—11:20 GMT