A scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of mythopoeic literature
Mythlore 19 Volume 6, Issue 1 (purchase below)
1979 Winter, 47 pages
Table of Contents
Articles
McGillis, Roderick F. “George Macdonald and the Lilith Legend in the Nineteenth Century.” 3-11.
Bisenicks, Dainis. “Children, Magic, and Choices.” 13-16.
Lee, George. “And the Darkness Grasped It Not: The Struggle of Good and Evil in Charles Williams.” 18-20.
Thorson, Stephen. “A Brief Introduction to the History and Origin of the Holy Grail Motif.” 23-24.
Christopher, Joe R. “Sir Gawain’s Missing Day.” 39-41.
Lindskoog, Kathryn. “Getting It Together: Lewis and the Two Hemispheres of Knowing.” 43-45.
Features
Speth, Lee. Cavalier Treatment: “A Quest for a King.” Review of The King of Alsander by James Elroy Flecker. 17.
Letters. 25.
Colvin, George. “Miscellany.” Review of “Forgotten Fantasy” series from Newcastle Publishing; Fantasy and SF criticism series from Borgo Press; Land of Heroes: A Retelling of the Kalevala by Ursula Synge; Quag Kep by Andre Norton; A Field Guide to the Little People by Nancy Arrowsmith and George Moore; Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judy Barrett. 30.
Christopher, Joe R. “Sayers and Ousby on Wilkie Collins.” Review of Wilkie Collins: A Critical and Biographical Study by Dorothy L. Sayers; Bloodhounds of Heaven: The Detective in English Fiction from Godwin to Doyle by Ian Ousby. 31-32.
Patterson, Nancy-Lou. “How Thin Is the Crust.” Review of The Dark Tower and Other Stories by C.S. Lewis. 32-33.
Patterson, Nancy-Lou. “Themes, Places, Beings, Things.” Review of The Mythology of Middle-earth by Ruth S. Noel. 33-35.
Ellwood, Robert S., Jr. “Of Pictures and Words.” Review of Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee; Eschatus by Bruce Pennington. 35.
Walker, Steven C. “Tolkien According to Bakshi.” Review of The Lord of the Rings, directed by Ralph Bakshi. 36.
Ziegler, Dale. “Ring-Wrath: Or Therein Bakshi Again.” Review of The Lord of the Rings, directed by Ralph Bakshi. 37-38.
Ellwood, Gracia Fay. Editorial. 38.
Christopher, Joe R. “An Inklings Bibliography (8).” 46-47.
Poems
Christopher, Joe R. “Eowyn.” 20.
Christopher, Joe R. “The Piping Song.” 22.
Christopher, Saralinda. “Unicorns.” 42.
Art
| Elizabeth Best | 12, back cover |
| Tim Callahan | 25 |
| Bonnie GoodKnight | 19, 28, 29, 34, 36, 40, 44*, 45 |
| Annette Harper | 21 |
| Michael Logan | Calligraphy: 20, 22, 42 |
| Victoria de Nevyen | 14, 15, 16 |
| Thadara Ottobris | cover, 4, 5, 8, 9, 47 |
| Nancy-Lou Patterson | 32 |
| John Pivovarnick | 11, 33 |
| Christine Smith | 44* |
| Karl Whittenberg | 27 |
- Cover: Thadara Ottobris, “Lilith.”
- Back Cover: Elizabeth Best, “Minas Morgul.”
- Page 12: Elizabeth Best, “Goldberry.”
- Page ##: Victoria de Nevyen. “Menolly and the Fire Lizards.”
- Page 32: Nancy-Lou Pattersom. “Wedding Island.”
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