Was Tolkien an environmentalist? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Beren87 · 02-20-2002, 12:01 PM

You all worry me, has no one here read the tolkien biography by Humphrey Carpenter?! It is a great biography and cleary states Tolkien's great love of nature, and his great sadness at it's destruction. He is quoted as saying "There goes the last piece of unspoiled land" each time he saw a new road or building being built in an untouched piece of nature.

02-20-2002, 12:01 PM	#7
Beren87 Master of the Secret Fire Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Between fire and ice, death and life Posts: 2,241	You all worry me, has no one here read the tolkien biography by Humphrey Carpenter?! It is a great biography and cleary states Tolkien's great love of nature, and his great sadness at it's destruction. He is quoted as saying "There goes the last piece of unspoiled land" each time he saw a new road or building being built in an untouched piece of nature.