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Artists' Comments On Their Art, Paula Disante, Sarah Beach, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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A collection of statements taken from featured artists on pieces seen in this issue of Mythlore.

Religion And Romanticism In Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, Kath Filmer

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Deplores lack of critical attention to The Neverending Story, which she reads as “a profoundly religious text” which includes both spiritual and psychological growth.

Fire And Ice: The Traditional Heroine In The Silmarillion, Sarah Beach

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Defines the Light and Dark heroine, each of which may have a positive or negative aspect. Sees Finduilas and Nienor Níniel as negative, non-active, acted upon; Lúthien and Idril participate “in the course of their heroes’ actions.”

In This Issue, Glen H. Goodknight

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Tolkien And Campbell Compared, Chris Seeman

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Compares Tolkien’s and Campbell’s “thinking about myth.” Identifies three themes they share and traces their aesthetic vision in this context.

The Scouring Of The Shire As A Hobbit Coming-Of-Age, Jonathon D. Langford

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Contends the events of The Lord of the Rings, culminating in the Scouring of the Shire, demonstrate a coming-of-age for the individual hobbits of the Fellowship, for some social and for others spiritual. The Shire’s response to Sharkey, especially after the Fellowship members return, is a coming-of-age for Hobbit society as a whole.

An Inklings Bibliography (44), Joe R. Christopher, Wayne G. Hammond

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Entries 42–59 in this series are written by Hammond (Tolkien material) and Christopher (Lewis and other material). See Hammond, Wayne G., for one later entry in this series.

Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev

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Tepper, Sheri S. Beauty.

Letters, Emilio Galindez, Joan Marie Verba, Kathryn Lindskoog, Corbin Carnell

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Always Winter And Never Christmas: Symbols Of Time In Lewis' Chronicles Of Narnia, Nancy-Lou Patterson

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Disagrees with Kilby that the appearance of Father Christmas in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is “incongruous.” Sees him as key to Lewis’s understanding of the theological significance of time and eternity.

Archetypes, Stereotypes, And The Female Hero: Transformations In Contemporary Perspectives, Terri Frontgia

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Points out deficiencies of traditional mythic and psychological archetypes in encompassing females. Considers some heroes and heroines of modern fantasy who demonstrate a new paradigm of archetypes not tied to gender.

Above All Shadows Rides The Sun: Gollum As Hero, Elizabeth Arthur

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Extensive discussion of the complexity of the character of Gollum/Sméagol. He can be seen as a kind of hero, intensely flawed but with incomparable endurance, and essential to the Quest.

The Secret Queen: Two Views Of The Heroine In Diana Paxson's The White Raven, Bruce Byfield

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Contrasts Esseilte, who typifies the Campbellian role of the female in her symbolic relationship to the male, with Branwen—who challenges this pattern “by pursuing her own enlightenment in much the same way that a male hero does.”

Bashing Joseph Campbell: Is He Now The Hero Of A Thousand Spaces?, Coralee Grebe

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Defends Joseph Campbell against recent attacks on his scholarship and personal beliefs.

Reviews, Nancy-Lou Patterson, David Llewellyn Dobbs, Glen Goodknight

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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. C.S. Lewis, Illus. by Pauline Baynes. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Magical World of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield. "Gareth Knight". Reviewed by David Llewellyn Dobbs.

Celtic Calendar 1992: an historical and mythological calendar representing the Celtic Year: November 1, 1991 to October 31, 1992. Patrick Wynne and Alexei Kondratiev. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

Reviews, Paula Disante, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Chris Seeman

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The 1992 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar. Illus. by Ted Nasmith. Reviewed by Paula DiSante.

Word and Story in C.S. Lewis. Ed. Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Dorothy L. Sayers, Solving the Mystery of Wickedness. Mitzi Brunsdale. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Lord of the Rings (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Leonard Rosenman. Reviewed by Chris Seeman.

Chronological Snobbery, Glen H. Goodknight

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Fantasy Characterization: The Example Of Tolkien, Dwayne Thorpe

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Distinguishes the aesthetic requirements of fantasy as a genre and how they differ from those of mimetic fiction. Analyzes the success of The Lord of the Rings in meeting those requirements, particularly in characterization and inner consistency.

An Inklings Bibliography (43), Joe R. Christopher, Wayne G. Hammond

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Entries 42–59 in this series are written by Hammond (Tolkien material) and Christopher (Lewis and other material). See Hammond, Wayne G., for one later entry in this series.

Letters, Grace E. Funk, Arden R. Smith, Deborah A. Oosterhouse, Manfred Zimmerman, Natalia Grigorieva, Chris Seeman

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Devil, Trickster And Fool, Tim Callahan

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Discusses the Trickster and Fool figure in world folklore and mythology as well as selected fantasy literature.

The Now Of Salvation: Thoughts On Charles Williams' "Et In Sempiternum Pereant", Stuart Kenny

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Analysis of Williams’s short story, noting how the symbolism of time is connected to salvation or damnation.

The Many Faces Of The Hero In The Lord Of The Rings, Stephen Potts

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Guest of Honor address at Mythcon 22. Reviews various definitions and characteristics of the hero according to several folklorists and psychologists. Discusses Aragorn, Gandalf, Frodo, and Sam as heroes according to these definitions.

The Silver Chair And Plato's Allegory Of The Cave: Archetypes Of Spiritual Liberation, Courtney Lynn Simmons, Joe Simmons

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Compares The Silver Chair and the allegory of the cave in Plato’s Republic, identifying eight commonalities. Asserts they have a common motif, “the spiritual quest for existential meaning where the divine and the terrestrial combine.”

Sailing West: Tolkien, The Saint Brendan Story, And The Idea Of Paradise In The West, Norma Roche

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Discusses the idea of a paradise in the West—its mythological and literary sources, its relationship to history, and Tolkien’s use of it in the poem “Imram.”

"Sister Picture Of Dorian Grey": The Image Of The Female In Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife, Bruce Byfield

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Analyzes Leiber’s Conjure Wife in terms of its significance in his development as a writer. Focuses on rationality in magic and gender roles, and their relationship to Jungian concepts of conscious and unconscious.

By "Significant" Compounding "We Pass Insensibly In The World Of Epic", J. S. Ryan

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Relates Tolkien’s thoughts expressed in the essay “Prefatory Remarks on the Prose Translation of Beowulf” to the style of The Hobbit, particularly the use of compound words or kennings.

Over Middle-Earth Sent Unto Men: On The Philological Origins Of Tolkien's Eärendel Myth, Carl F. Hostetter

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Goes beyond Carpenter’s well-known reference to Cynewulf’s Christ as Tolkien’s “primary inspiration” for Eärendel. Seeks out the philological roots of various aspects of Eärendel (star, messenger, mariner, eagle, herald).

Arthurian Wantons: Language, Lust, And Time In Victorian Poetry And Drama, M. K. Louis

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Compares several Victorian treatments of the Matter of Britain. Includes Tennyson’s moralistic version as well as “theologically and linguistically subversive” works of later Victorians.

Letters, Kathryn Lindskoog, Mary M. Stolzenbach

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No abstract provided.