Tolkien and Rape: Sexual Terror, Sexual Violence, and the Woman's Body in Middle-Earth.

Author / Editor
Miller, T. S., and Elizabeth Miller.

Title
Tolkien and Rape: Sexual Terror, Sexual Violence, and the Woman's Body in Middle-Earth.

Published
Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 62 (2021): 133-56.

Description
Connects the "gendered terror" of female sexuality and the "evasiveness" of J. R. R. Tolkien's treatment of sexual violence against women in his Middle-Earth narratives, and assesses suppression of rape in Tolkien's 1939 bowdlerized version of RvT in light of this evasiveness.

Contributor
Miller, Elizabeth.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale
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