Mythlore 125 Volume 33, Issue 1     (purchase below)

Table of Contents

Where Fantasy Fits: The Importance of Being Tolkien
— Richard C. West

A Spenserian in Space: The Faerie Queene in C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra
— Paul R. Rovang

Peter S. Beagle’s Transformations of the Mythic Unicorn
— Weronika Łaszkiewicz

Perilous Wanderings through the Enchanted Forest: The Influence of the Fairy-Tale Tradition on Mirkwood in Tolkien’s The Hobbit
— Marco R.S. Post

Cults of Lovecraft: The Impact of H.P. Lovecraft’s Fiction on Contemporary Occult Practices
— John Engle

Political Institutions in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Lack of Democracy
— Dominic J. Nardi, Jr.

Toying with Fantasy: The Postmodern Playground of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels
— Daniel Lüthi

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Reviews:

• Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth by Brian Attebery; reviewed by David Bratman
• The Body in Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality, edited by Christopher Vaccaro; reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft
• Critical Essays on Lord Dunsany, edited by S.T. Joshi; reviewed by Tiffany Brooke Martin
• History, Guilt, and Habit by Owen Barfield; reviewed by Bradford Lee Eden
• In the Nameless Wood: Explorations in the Philological Hinterland of Tolkien’s Literary Creations by J.S. Ryan; reviewed by Andrew Higgins
• The Letters of Ruth Pitter: Silent Music, edited by Don W. King; reviewed by Joe R. Christopher
• Briefly Noted: Tarot in Culture, edited by Emily E. Auger; and Coreopsis: Journal of Myth and Theatre, edited by Janet Brennan Croft

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