Mythlore 147 Volume 44, Issue 1     (purchase below)

Fall/Winter 2025

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

“Desirable Lady” or “She Who Desires”: Examining Aredhel’s Agency in Tolkien’s Legendarium
— Lyra Keran Zhang

Unknowing in Tolkien’s Legendarium and the Agnosia of the Elvish Tradition
— Benjamin Blakeslee-Drain

Tolkien on Kennings and the River-(woman’s) Daughter
— Derek Simon

Lothlórien: Gendered Spaces, Cartographic Nominalism, and Galadriel’s Queerness
— Bo Kampmann Walther

Fathoming the Mathom-house: Museums and Material Heritage in Tolkien’s Legendarium
— Stuart Bowes

Saunders Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Place of Magic in Fantasy
— Alexander Retakh

Literary Tributaries: Classical and Romantic Influences in The Wind in the Willows
— Landon Loftin

Eleanor Arnason’s Fantastic Mitochondrial Humor
— author

The Soldier’s Stigmata, Part I: Habitus and Speaking of the Future Otherwise in Lois McMaster Bujold’s “The Borders of Infinity”
— Andrew Hallam

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Notes and Letters

• Tolkien’s Invasion of Dragons, Ian Gunn
• Credit Where Credit’s Due: Douglass Parker and J.S. Ryan, Matthew Thompson-Handell
• Tolkien’s Exceptional Visit to Holland, Revisited: An Acquaintance with Maartje Draak, Bart Jaski and Kris Swank
• God’s Vow: A Note on C.S. Lewis’s Idea of Human Freewill and Divine Omnipotence, Matthew McKenna
• Tolkien’s Tune for Namárië is an Actual Gregorian Chant, Nancy Martsch
• But I Made You Look: Mysticism, Desire, and the Refusal of the Literal, Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem

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Reviews

• Owen Barfield’s Poetry, Drama, and Fiction: Rider on Pegasus by Jeffrey Hipolito — Landon Loftin
• C.S. Lewis on Literature: An Introduction to his Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary by Marcus K. Paul — James Hamby
• Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium by Richard Gallant — Cami D. Agan
• Once Upon a Place: Forests, Caverns & Other Places of Transformation in Myths, Fairy Tales & Film by Holly Bellebuono — Izzy Martins-Simonsen
• Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature edited by Mark A. Fabrizi — Douglas A. Anderson
• Memory and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones: The Keeper of All Our Memories edited by Anna Czarnowus and Carolyne Larrington — Kris Swank
• Nordic Sagas as Children’s Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures by Velma Bourgeois Richmond — Maria Alberto
• Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology edited by Dennis Wilson Wise — Douglas A. Anderson
• Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun by Jane Harrington — Rebecca McCurdy

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