Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature" (The New Middle Ages) - Hardcover

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“This book is Jane Chance’s best work to date―and that’s saying a lot for a scholar whose research has been key to the field of Tolkien studies for more than four decades. Chance has shaken up all the pieces that Tolkien scholars have been playing with for so long and put them back together in a pattern so obvious and seamlessly connected that the rest of us must gape both excited and humbled.” (Leslie A. Donovan, editor of “Approaches to Teaching Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Other Works” and “Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien”)

“What is important about this book is Jane Chance's vigorous positioning of Tolkien as Other, as a lifelong outsider and of the profound effect this had on his fiction. It is an essential point, and Chance has stated it loud and clear and right at the beginning.” (Verlyn Flieger, author of “Splintered Light”, “A Question of Time”, and “Green Suns and Faërie”)

“A rousing reevaluation of Tolkien...Chance slays the bugaboos of banal readings, shifting long-lived views of the author and his creatures that we only thought we knew.” (Tison Pugh, author of “Queering Medieval Genres”)

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“Deal with Tolkien’s own life experience with otherness and examine how that experience informed reflections of otherness in his writing. ... the book features a prominent dedication to Chance as well as a vintage photo opposite its table of contents. ... deserve a place on the bookshelves of Tolkien scholars and serious fans.” (Jason Fisher, Mythlore, Vol. 37 (2), 2019)