Mythlore 131 Volume 36, Issue 1

Fall/Winter 2017     (purchase below)

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Treasure in the Archives: A Celebration of Archival Collections
— Laura Schmidt

“Things That Were, and Things That Are, and Things That Yet May Be”: The J.R.R. Tolkien Manuscript Collection at Marquette University
— William M. Fliss

Into the Wild Woods: On the Significance of Trees and Forests in Fantasy Fiction
— Weronika Łaszkiewicz

“Countries of the Mind”: The Mundane, the Fantastic, and Reality in the Landscapes of Diana Wynne Jones’s Hexwood and Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom Series
— Brittani Ivan

“Morning Stars of a Setting World”: Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturæ and Tolkien’s Legendarium as Neo-Platonic Mythopoeia
— Christopher Vaccaro

“A Warp of Horror”: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sub-creation of Evil
— Richard Angelo Bergen

“Your Mother Died to Save You”: The Influence of Mothers in Constructing Moral Frameworks for Violence in Harry Potter
— Margaret S. Mauk

J.R.R. Tolkien and the 1954 Nomination of E.M. Forster for the Nobel Prize in Literature
— Dennis Wilson Wise

Maleldil and Reader Response in C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet
— Thomas Rand

Three Rings for the Elven-kings: Trilogizing Tolkien in Print and Film
— Robert T. Tally

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Notes and Letters

• Hugo Dyson: An Update, David Bratman
• Robert E. Havard: A Closer Look at the “Medical Inkling,” Sarah O’Dell
• Memories of Clyde Kilby, Mike Foster
• A Note on a Name, Verlyn Flieger
• Letter to the Editor, J. Aleksandr Wootton

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Reviews

• Beren and Lúthien, Katherine Neville
• Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty, Phillip Irving Mitchell
• The Fantastic of the Fin de Siècle, Douglas A. Anderson
• Laughter in Middle-earth, Janet Brennan Croft
• Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy, Glenn R. Gray
• From Peterborough to Faery, David L. Emerson
• The Ravenclaw Chronicles and Harry Potter for Nerds II, Jennifer W. Spirko
• Deeper Magic, Diane Joy Baker
• The Invention of Angela Carter, Dennis Wilson Wise
• Forgotten Leaves: Essays from a Smial, Cait Coker
• Tolkien Studies v.XIII, North Wind v.35, and VII v.33, Janet Brennan Croft
• Briefly Noted, Janet Brennan Croft, Mike Foster

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