Mythlore 133 Volume 37, Issue 1

Fall/Winter 2018     (purchase below)

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

The Process of Salvation in Pearl and The Great Divorce
— Amber Dunai

Paradise Retold: Lewis’s Reimagining of Milton, Eden, and Eve
— Benita Huffman Muth

“No Pagan Ever Loved His God”: Tolkien, Thompson, and the Beautification of the Gods
— Megan Fontenot

Turning Back the Tides: The Anglo-Saxon Vice of Ofermod in Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur
— Colin J. Cutler

Nazis in the Shire: Tolkien and Satire
— Jerome Donnelly

Tolkien’s Gimpy Heroes
— Victoria Holtz Wodzak

A Cloud of Witnesses: External Mediation in Frodo’s Journey to Rivendell and Beyond
— Carl P. Olson

A Modern Fairy-story: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Seen through the Prism of Tolkien’s Classic Essay
— Douglas Charles Kane

The Romance and the Real: A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance
— Jordana Long

Neil Gaiman’s American Gods: A Postmodern Epic for America
— Susan Gorman

Paul Edwin Zimmer’s Alliterative Style: A Metrical Legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Poul Anderson
— Dennis Wilson Wise

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Notes and Letters

• Back to the Beginning: Rudyard Kipling’s Story of the Invention of Writing, Marie Nelson
• On Julian Eilmann’s J.R.R. Tolkien: Romanticist and Poet, Reviewed by Kris Swank in Mythlore #132, Nancy Martsch
• Bilingual Puns in The Lord of the Rings, Pierre H. Berube

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Reviews

• Phantastes: Annotated Edition by George MacDonald, edited by John Pennington and Roderick McGillis, Tiffany Brooke Martin
• The Faun’s Bookshelf: C.S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters by Charlie H. Starr, Louis Markos
• Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis. Madeleine L’Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S Lewis, et al. (2nd ed.) by Rolland Hein, Sharon L. Bolding
• Death and Immortality in Middle-earth, edited by Daniel Helen, Mike Foster
• The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on Stories from Grimm to Gaiman, edited by Joseph Abbruscato and Tanya Jones, Maria Alberto
• Both Sides of the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis, Theological Imagination, and Everyday Discipleship, edited by Rob Fennell, S. Dorman
• Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works, edited by Anne Hiebert Alton and William C. Spruiell, Janet Brennan Croft
• The Hobbit and Tolkien’s Mythology, edited by Bradford Lee Eden, David L. Emerson
• Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones by Shiloh Carroll, Joseph Young
• Poetry and Song in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Anna Milon, Diane Joy Baker
• Briefly Noted: Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, edited by Catherine McIlwaine; The Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault, edited by Christopher Betts; The Mabinogion, translated by Sioned Davies; Janet Brennan Croft

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