Tolkien and Alterity

1 Introduction.-2 Queer Tolkien: A Bibliographical Essay on Tolkien and Alterity.-3 Race in Tolkien Studies: A Bibliographic Essay.-4 Revising Lobelia.-5 Medieval Organicism or Modern Feminist Science.-6 Cinema, Sexuality, Mechanical Reproduction: Peter Jackson's Saruman.-7 Saruman's Sodomitic Resonances: Alain de Lille's De Planctu Naturae and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.-8 Cruising Fairies: Queer Desire in Gilles, Niggle, and Smith.-9 Language and Alterity in Tolkien and Levinas.-10 The Orcs and the Others: Familiarity as Estrangement in The Lord of the Rings.-11 Silmarils and Obsession: The Undoing of Feanor.-12 The Other as Kolbitr: Tolkien's Faramir and Eowyn as Alfred and AEthelflaed