Mythlore 148 Volume 44, Issue 2     (purchase below)

Spring/Summer 2026

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Piers’s Barn and Aslan’s Stable: Satire and Sublimity in Langland’s Piers Plowman and Lewis’s The Last Battle
— Tiffany E. Schubert

What Are C.S. Lewis’s Eldila and Why Do They Matter?
— Joseph Weigel

The Soldier’s Stigmata, Part II: Figura, the Four Senses of Interpretation, and Other Matters in Lois McMaster Bujold’s “The Borders of Infinity”
— Andrew Hallam

The Romantic Imagination of Gustavo Adolfo Béquer and J.R.R. Tolkien
— Mariana Rios Maldonado and Andoni Cossio

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Gethsemane: Christian Art and Tradition in the Passion of Albus Dumbledore
— John Anthony Dunne

“The Silmaril was Bound Upon His Brow”: Elwing and Eärendil and the “Living Light” of Love
— Douglas Charles Kane

Galadriel: A Source of Lore for the Silmarillion
— Zachary Rhone

The Significance of Ioreth, Wise Woman of Gondor, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
— Jane Beal

From Viðkenning to Valarindi: The Enigma of Goldberry and the River-woman
— Derek Simon

From Maldon to Mordor: Hobbits and the Lord-Retainer Relationship in The Lord of the Rings
— Samuel A. Masters

Tolkien’s Thomist Triad: A High Medieval Response to Contemporary Jus Ad Bellum
— Jeffrey S. Dixon

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Notes

• Signed, Unknown Friend: Hints of William Lindsay Gresham’s Associates in a Curious Letter, G. Connor Salter
• Recollections and Reflections on the Book That Created Itself, Verlyn Flieger
• Piranesi and Neptune: How Susanna Clarke’s Spellbinding Story Orbits Planet Narnia, Jennifer Agee
• Prometheus the Trickster: Prophecy, Power, and Deception, Chris Griglack
• In Memoriam: James Como, Anne-Frédérique Mochel-Caballero
• In Memoriam: Colin Duriez, Justin Wiggins

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Reviews

• A Real Taste for Fairy-stories by Verlyn Flieger — Douglas Charles Kane
• Aubusson Weaves Tolkien: The Woven Adventure / Aubusson tisse Tolkien: L’aventure tissée — Nancy Martsch
• Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy edited by Dimitra Fimi and Alistair J.P. Sims — Giovanni Carmine Costabile
• Alice in Wonderland: Norton Critical Edition edited by Donald J. Gray — James Hamby
• Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity Through Magic by Stefan Ekman — Phillip Fitzsimmons
• Schools of Magic: Learning in Children’s and Young Adult Fantasy Fiction by Megan H. Suttie — Sara Landaverde
• Russell Hoban: Faithful to the Strange by Graeme Wend-Walker — Nicholas Birns
• The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature by Giovanni Carmine Costabile — Katherine Cooper Wyma
• Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature — Douglas A. Anderson
• William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark by Timothy S. Murphy — Timothy R. Granger
• The Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien: Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation by Robert J. Dobie — Hayden Bilbrey
• Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda, edited by Anthony G. Cirilla and Vincent E. Rone — Bianca Beronio
• So You’ve Landed in a Fantasy World by Josiah Lebowitz — Nancy Martsch
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s Women of Middle-earth: Including Sir Peter Jackson’s Women of Middle-earth by Chris Barclay — Diane Riggins
• Briefly Noted: Raven and Crow: The Mythology, Art and Science of Our Favorite Black Birds by Ellen W. Williams — Janet Brennan Croft

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