Mythlore 139 Volume 40, Issue 1

Fall/Winter 2021     (purchase below)

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

All Worthy Things: The Personhood of Nature in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium
— Sofia Parrila

The Shape of Water in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
— Norbert Schürer

Mirrors to the Underworld: Reflective Portals between Life and Death in the Harry Potter Series
— Trenton J. McNulty

Lewis and Clarke in the Caves: Art and Platonic Worlds in Piranesi
— Julie M. Dugger

Just Reading A Spell for Chameleon: An Appreciation with Caveats, and an Elegy
— Dennis Wilson Wise

Responsibility and Critical Thinking as Markers of Adulthood in Two Coming-of-Age Fantasy Series: Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching Novels and Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimeus Trilogy
— Anna Köhler

The Conscience of Solomon Kane: Robert E. Howard’s Rhetorics of Motive, World, and Race
— Gabriel Mamola

But Where Shall Wisdom be Found? The Lord of the Rings and the Wisdom Literature of the Hebrew Bible
— Mattie E. Gustafson

“Taliessin in the Rose-Garden”: A Symbolic Analysis
— Joseph Thompson

The Enigmatic Loss of Proto-Hobbitic
— Thomas Honegger

How Tolkien Saved His Neck: A lusinghe Proposition to the Oxford Dante Society
— John R. Holmes

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Notes and Letters

• Keystone or Cornerstone? A Rejoinder to Verlyn Flieger on the Alleged “Conflicting Sides” of Tolkien’s Singular Self — Donald T. Williams
• A Holiday by the Sea: In Search of Cair Paravel — Reggie Weems
• Jane Austen’s Lady Susan as a Possible Source of Inspiration behind C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters — Song (Joseph) Cho

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Review Essay

• Women Tarot Artists Inspired by the Golden Dawn: Recent Publications — Emily E. Auger

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Reviews

• Tolkien’s Modern Reading by Holly Ordway — Kris Swank
• The Flight of the Wild Gander by Joseph Campbell — Phillip Fitzsimmons
• God and the Gothic by Alison Milbank — Douglas A. Anderson
• The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothrok, translated by Jackson Crawford — Phillip Fitzsimmons
• Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens, edited by Anna Milon — Alana White
• Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures, edited by Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi — Nada Kujundžić
• George MacDonald’s Children’s Fantasies and the Divine Imagination by Colin Manlove — Tiffany Brooke Martin
• The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot by Patrick Maille — Emily E. Auger
• Terry Pratchett’s Ethical Worlds, edited by Kristin Noone and Emily Lavin Leverett — Felicity Gilbert
• Briefly Noted:
  Thanks for Typing, edited by Jukliana Dresvina, and In and Out of Bloomsbury by Martin Ferguson Smith — Janet Brennan Croft
  Encyclopedia of Mythical Objects by Theresa Bane — John Zacharias
  The Shared Witness of C.S. Lewis and Austin Farrer by Phillip Irving Mitchell — Landon Loftin

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