Codex of Middle Earth: Race, Myth, and Surveillance in Tolkien and the West

By DERRICK LYNCH and John Canoe

Middle-earth was never just fantasy.
Behind Tolkien's epic lies a racial cosmology - a hidden grammar of light and dark, north and south, pure and mixed, seen and unseen. At the same time, in modern Britain, police Identity Codes (IC1-IC7) quietly organise real people into the same categories.
This book, produced as an IC3CSI investigation, uncovers how myth and law mirror one another. From the Rohirrim to the Valar, from Gondor's noble decline to the faceless Haradrim, from the Half-elves' tragic choices to the Eye of Sauron's surveillance, Tolkien's world and the IC system reveal the same structure: IC1 - The divine authors of orderIC2 - The noble but declining heirsIC3 - The erased and demonised enemyIC4 - Colonised auxiliariesIC5 - Exoticised outsidersIC6 - Hybrids, unstable and mistrustedIC7 - The watchers, bodiless and unaccountableThrough rich Tolkien detail, historical parallels, and sharp investigative analysis, IC3CSI Codex of Middle demonstrates that the myths we read and the forms we sign are part of the same imagination - one that continues to shape power, surveillance, and race today.
For Tolkien fans, this book offers a new way to read the legendarium. For communities living under IC codes, it exposes the myth behind the form. And for every reader, it asks the final question: Who will write the next codex?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FR5D52F4
• ISBN13: 9798265394644
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"