On Dwarves and Scientists: Probing for Technological Ethics in the Creative Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien

The presence of technology in contemporary life has become so pervasive that sociologist, Jacques Ellul has described this age as a "technological society". J.R.R. Tolkien lived in the midst of the ascension of this technological society at the turn of the twentieth-century, and though he...

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Main Author: Jeremy Kidwell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2009-06-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/618