Ecotourism in Appalachia

" With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the popularity of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is unparalleled. TolkienÕs books continue to be bestsellers decades after their original publication. An epic in league with those of Spenser and Malory, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, begun during HitlerÕs rise to power, celebrates the insignificant individual as hero in the modern world. Jane ChanceÕs critical appraisal of TolkienÕs heroic masterwork is the first to explore its Òmythology of powerÓÐthat is, how power, politics, and language interact. Chance looks beyond the fantastic, self-contained world of Middle-earth to the twentieth-century parallels presented in the trilogy.