The lord of the rings may be a fantasy novel, but it still has many issues that connect to the real world, such as themes of the loss of the environment.
In the lord of the rings one of the characters in the second book, which is the one I'm reading, is Treebeard, a talking tree who is a shepherd of the forests. The evil wizard sauroman is destroying his trees. This is one of the more obvious examples of Tolkien presenting the issue of protecting the environment.
Some less obvious ways Tolkien shows the loss of nature is how during the course of the story all the elves are leaving. The elves represent nature and the forest and in the real world nature is disappearing . Tolkien believes that nature is being destroyed and he is showing us this by the fact the beautiful things in middle earth are leaving or being destroyed.
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