Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Importance of Plants in J.R.R.
Tolkien's Legendarium
Chapter 2 - Plant Communities of Middle-earth
Chapter 3 - The Diversity of Life, with a Focus on the Green
Plants
Chapter 4 - Introduction to Plant Morphology - Learning the
Language of Plant Descriptions
Chapter 5 - Identification of the Plants of Middle-earth
Chapter 6 - Telperion and Laurelin - The Two Trees of Valinor
Chapter 7 - The Plants of Middle-earth
Chapter 8 - A Note from the Illustrator
Walter S. Judd is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the
Department of Biology, University of Florida. His research focuses
on the systematics and evolution of the flowering plants. He has
published over 200 refereed articles and has described numerous new
species of plants.
Graham Judd holds an MFA in Printmaking, and received a Jerome
Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Printmakers at Highpoint Center
for Printmaking. He currently teaches at Augsburg College and
Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
"...This volume, with its handsome and haunting woodcuts, is best
appreciated in small doses. It's heady stuff, quite concentrated.
But it made me blow the dust off my copy of "The Silmarillion" and
add it to my stash of winter reading." -- The New York Times Book
Review
"[Judd] has in this book produced an extremely detailed survey of
the plants that create the distinctive landscapes of Middle-earth.
Each plant is treated with the same botanical precision." -- Lynn
Forest-Hill, Tolkien Studies
"Walter Judd lifts lovely passages from Tolkien's prose to
elucidate on different plant species. There is helpful basic botany
to further offset [our] 'plant blindness'. Graham Judd's rich,
black and white illustrations are intriguing combinations of
botanical likenesses and psychological commentary." -- The New York
Journal of Books
"Moved by Tolkien's passion for plants, the retired botany
professor spent years cataloging every plant that appeared in his
writing, eventually compiling a list of 141 different species. He
teamed up with his son, Graham, a professional illustrator. And
together, they embarked on quest to transform that list into a
botanical guide to Middle Earth." -- NPR
"No one who dips into, or better still, reads this book will ever
think of The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit in the same way
again." -- Nature Plants
"The clear, comprehensive alphabetical listing of each species,
along with the visual identification key of the plant drawings,
adds to the readers understanding and appreciation of the Tolkien
canon." -- Ian Street, Annals of Botany
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