Editing J. R. R. Tolkien (section)

=== Nature ===

{{further|Environmentalism in The Lord of the Rings}}

During most of his own life, [[conservationism]] was not yet on the political agenda, and Tolkien himself did not directly express conservationist views—except in some private letters, in which he tells about his fondness for forests and sadness at tree-felling. In later years, a number of authors of biographies or literary analyses of Tolkien conclude that during his writing of ''The Lord of the Rings'', Tolkien gained increased interest in the value of wild and untamed nature, and in protecting what wild nature was left in the industrialized world.<ref>{{cite book |title=J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-earth |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2000 |editor-last=Clark |editor-first=George |editor-last2=Timmons |editor-first2=Daniel}}{{pages needed|date=September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Saguaro |first1=Shelley |title=J. R. R. Tolkien: New Casebook |last2=Thacker |first2=Deborah Cogan |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-137-26399-5 |editor-last=Hunt |editor-first=Peter |chapter=Tolkien and Trees |chapter-url=http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/791/1/Tolkien%20and%20Trees%20PDF.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003153917/http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/791/1/Tolkien%20and%20Trees%20PDF.pdf |archive-date=3 October 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Dickerson |first1=Matthew |title=Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien |last2=Evans |first2=Jonathan |author2-link=Jonathan Evans (scholar) |publisher=University of Kentucky Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-8131-2418-6 |author-link=Matthew T. Dickerson}}</ref>