Mythlore 145 Volume 43, Issue 1     (purchase below)

Fall/Winter 2024

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Fantasy, Colonialism, and the Middle Landscape
— Brian Attebery

The Catholic Imaginations of J.R.R. Tolkien and Oscar Wilde
— Frazier Alexander Johnson

Hamlet in Narnia: The Prince and the Poem in Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia
— Sarah R.A. Waters

The Wart, the Wizard, and the Cathedral: Applying C.S. Lewis’s Intertextuality Theory to T.H. White and J.K. Rowling
— G. Connor Salter

“The Company at St. Anne’s” and “The God’s Gardeners”: What C.S. Lewis and Margaret Atwood Teach Us about Caring for Our Planet
— Anne Frédérique Mochel-Caballero

Tolkien the Playwright: Manuscript Revisions and Faërian Dramas in “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth”
— Anna Smol

The Rhetoric of Temporality in C.S. Lewis’s Works: A Study of Time in Mere Christianity and the Chronicles of Narnia
— Lorraine Nasser-Sakass

Elmar, Aerin, and Aredhel: Female Enslavement in Tolkien’s Legendarium
— Clare Moore

Hell on Earth in Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom: Dark Jouissance and the Dead Mother
— John Rosegrant

The Inconsistencies of Galadriel: The Influence of the Earlier Legendarium in The Lord of the Rings
— Alexander Retakh

The Hag o’ the Hills: Terry Pratchett‘s Tiffany Aching as Soverignty Goddess
— Eileen Donaldson

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Notes and Letters

• A Bleak, Barren Take: A Response to “Women and Fertility in The Lord of the Rings,” Clare Moore and Leah Hagan
• Tolkien’s Lúthien from Life to Art and Art to Life, Verlyn Flieger
• “I’m Studying Beowulf with Beowulf Himself,” Matthew Thompson-Handell
• Friar Jack, the Science-Fiction Apologist: Exploring “The Friar of Oxford” by William Lindsay Gresham, Sørina Higgins and G. Connor Salter

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Reviews

• J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics by Hamish Williams — Robert T. Tally, Jr.
• Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales edited by Jack Zipes — Toni Thibodeaux
• The Wizard of Mecosta: Russell Kirk, Gothic Fiction, and the Moral Imagination by Camilo Peralta — G. Connor Salter
• The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien by Nicholas Birns — María Fernández Portaencasa
• Many Times and Many Places: C.S. Lewis and the Value of History by K. Alan Snyder and Jamin Metcalf — Landon Loftin
• The Major and the Missionary: Letters of Warren Hamilton Lewis and Blanche Biggs edited by Diana Pavlac Glyer — Bruce R. Johnson
• The Phantomwise Tarot and Guidebook by Erin Morgenstern — Emily E. Auger
• Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many by Thomas P. Hillman — Giovanni Carmine Costabile
• Science, Technology, and Magic in The Witcher: A Medievalist Spin on Modern Monsters by Kristine Larsen — Amber Lehning
• Representing Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Form, and Ideology by Robert T. Tally, Jr. — Norbert Schürer
• Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography by Holly Ordway, and C.S. Lewis: Spirituality for Mere Christians by William Griffin — Martina Juričková
• What Barfield Thought: An Introduction to the Work of Owen Barfield by Landon Loftin and Max Leyf — Katherine Sas
• A Guidebook to Monsters: Philosophy, Religion, and the Paranormal by Ryan J. Stark — Mark A. Brians III
• Occidental Mythology (The Masks of God, Volume 3) by Joseph Campbell — Phillip Fitzsimmons
• Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy, and Translation by Eric Reinders — Cait Coker
• Briefly Noted:
  Binding Them All: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien and His Works, edited by Monika Kirner-Ludwig et al. — Troels Forchhammer

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