Mythlore 126 Volume 33, Issue 2     (purchase below)

Table of Contents

Magical Genders: The Gender(s) of Witches in the Historical Imagination of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
— Lian Sinclair

“Because I’m a Girl, I Suppose!”: Gender Lines and Narrative Perspective in Harry Potter
— Melanie J. Cordova

Constructing Lothíriel: Rewriting and Rescuing the Women of Middle-earth From the Margins
— Karen Viars and Cait Coker

Brienne of Tarth and Jaime Lannister: A Romantic Comedy Within HBO’s Game of Thrones
— Inbar Shaham

Isn’t it Romantic? Sacrificing Agency for Romance in The Chronicles of Prydain
— Rodney M.D. Fierce

Tolkien Sidelined: Constructing the Non-Combatant in The Children of Húrin
— Victoria Holtz-Wodzak

St. Jerome’s Narnia: Transformation and Asceticism in the Desert and Beyond the Wardrobe
— John Gavin, S.J

Tolkien’s Dialogue Between Enchantment and Loss
— John Rosegrant

Chaoskampf, Salvation, and Dragons: Archetypes in Tolkien’s Earendel
— Tibor Tarcsay

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Notes:

• Thiepval Ridge and Minas Tirith, Nancy Martsch
• In Memoriam, Terry Pratchett in Mythlore, Janet Brennan Croft
• In Memoriam, Tom Loback in Mythlore, Edith Crowe and Janet Brennan Croft

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Reviews:

• Christianity and the Detective Story ed. by Anya Morlan and Walter Raubicheck; reviewed by Melody Green
• The Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience by Robert Tindall with Susana Bustos; reviewed by Emily E. Auger
• Gaining a Face: The Romanticism of C.S. Lewis by James Prothero and Donald T. Williams; reviewed by Crystal Hurd
• The A-Z of C.S. Lewis: An Encyclopedia of His Life, Thought and Writings by Colin Duriez; reviewed by Andrew Stout
• Under the Mercy: Charles Williams & the Holy Grail by Robert Peirano; reviewed by Eric Rauscher
• Tolkien and the Modernists: Literary Responses to the Dark New Days of the 20th Century by Theresa Freda Nicolay; reviewed by Robert T. Tally Jr.
• Tolkien at Exeter College: How an Oxford Undergraduate Created Middle-earth by John Garth; reviewed by Mike Foster
• Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern ed. by Chief Thomas Honegger and Fanfan Chen; and Tolkien Studies XI ed. by Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger, and David Bratman; reviewed by Janet Brennan Croft
• Briefly Noted: True Myth: C.S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell on the Veracity of Christianity by James W. Menzies; The C.S. Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity and the Public Sphere by Samuel Joeckel; Not God's Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms by Holly Ordway; and The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work by Joseph Campbell, edited and with an introduction by Phil Cousineau.

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