Mythlore 143 Volume 42, Issue 1     (purchase below)

Fall/Winter 2023

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder of Frodo Baggins
— Bruce Leonard

“It is ‘About’ Nothing But Itself”: Tolkienian Theology Beyond the Domination of the Author
— Tom Emanuel

“Or Break It”: The Cost of Silmarils and Sworn Oaths
— Alexander M. Bruce

Through Fire and Water: The Exodus of the Gondothlim
— Ethan Danner

“A Bleak, Barren Land”: Women and Fertility in The Lord of the Rings
— Dylan L. Henderson

Otherworldly but not the Otherworld: Tolkien’s Adaptation of Medieval Faerie and Fairies into a Sub-creative Elvendom
— Elliot Thomas Collins

Negative Estrangement: Fantasy and Race in the Drow and Drizzt Do’Urden
— Steven Holmes

Mythos to Myth to Mythopoeia: A Cyclical Process
— Ashna Mary Jacobs and Nirmala Menon

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Notes and Letters

• “A Fearful Weapon” — Verlyn Flieger
• The Sun, The Son, and the Silmarillion: Christopher Tolkien and the Copernican Revolution of Morgoth’s Ring — Kristine Larsen
• On the Rings of Power: Thoughts Inspired by Larry Burris’s “Sentience and Sapience in the One Ring” — Nancy Martsch
• Nine Tolkien Scholars Respond to Charles W. Mills’s “The Wretched of Middle-earth: An Orkish Manifesto” — Robin Anne Reid, Bianca L. Beronio, Robert Stuart, Robert T. Tally Jr., Tom Ue, Cait Coker, Cami Agan, Charlotte Krausz, Helen Young
• To the Editor — Charles A. Huttar
• The C.S. Lewis Correspondence Project — Bruce R. Johnson
• In Memoriam: Mike Foster — Janet Brennan Croft

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Reviews

• Inkling, Historian, Soldier, And Brother: A Life Of Warren Hamilton Lewis by Don W. King — David Bratman
• “Uncle Curro”: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Spanish Connection by José Manuel Ferrández Bru — Nicole M. duPlessis
• C.S. Lewis for Beginners by Louis Markos — Wendell Wagner
• Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile, edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel — G. Connor Salter
• Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth by Austin M. Freeman — Alex (Oleksiy) Ostaltsev
• The Lion’s Country: C.S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real by Charlie W. Starr — Mark-Elliot Finley
• How to Misunderstand Tolkien: The Critics and the Fantasy Master by Bruno Bacelli — Nancy Martsch
• Death in Supernatural: Critical Essays, edited by Amanda Taylor and Susan Nylander — Martina G. Wise
• Adapting Tolkien: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar 2020, edited by Will Sherwood — Alana White
• East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C.S. Lewis by Warwick Ball — Philip Irving Mitchell
• Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien, edited by Nuno Simões Rodrigues, Martin Simonson, and Angélica Varandas — Nancy Martsch
• Sunbeams and Bottles: The Theology, Thought and Reading of C.S. Lewis by James Prothero — Suzanne Bray
• The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien, edited by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine — Cait Coker
• Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child’s Moral Imagination, Second Edition, by Vigen Guroian — Sarah O’Dell
• Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Woood: A Critical Companion by Paul Kincaid — Glenn R. Gray
• After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, by Michael Ward — Jeremy M. Rios
• Briefly Noted:
  The Fairy Tale World, edited by Andrew Teverson — Janet Brennan Croft

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