The sweet and the bitter death and dying in j r r tolkiens the lord of the rings amy m amendt raduege marquette university abstract death and immortality are by tolkiens own admission central themes in the lord of the rings. Get this from a library the sweet and the bitter death and dying in jrr tolkiens the lord of the rings amy amendt raduege. The sweet and the bitter death and dying in j r r tolkiens the lord of the rings by amy amendt raduege 343 rating details 7 ratings 2 reviews in 1956 j r r tolkien famously stated that the real theme of the lord of the rings was death and immortality the deaths that underscore so much of the subject matter of tolkiens . The sweet and the bitter death and dying in jrr tolkiens the lord of the rings by amy amendt raduege kent ohio kent state university press 2018 160 pp 1399 softcover isbn 978 1 60635 305 9 this short book if not perfect is certainly excellent. Accepting death is never easy and tolkien never implies as much the point says amendt raduege is that death can be meaningful and so can the orientation with which we face it the very notion of investigating death and dying in the lord of the rings is compelling and the analyses in the sweet and bitter are quite convincing