The Personification of Nature in J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings : An Analysis of Tolkien's Nature Writing in Middle-earth / Personifieringen av Naturen i J.R.R Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings

This essay will argue that J.R.R Tolkien, in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, uses the language of the sublime and provides nature with agency through the Ents in his fictional world in an attempt to make his readers think more about the destruction of nature in their own world. Tolkien does this through his nature writing, his depiction of the Ents and his depiction of how the natural world in Middle-earth is fading away because of industrialization. This essay will argue this by using an ecocritical lens with which to analyze the work