Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons^™

She And Tolkien, John D. Rateliff

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

Notes that Tolkien only admitted one post-medieval source as an influence—Haggard’s She series—and traces borrowings and influences of the series on Tolkien, particularly parallels between the characters of Ayesha and Galadriel and between the cities of Kor and Gondolin.

Thematic Implications Of C.S. Lewis' Spirits In Bondage, Stephen Thorson

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

Speculates about reasons for comparative critical neglect of Lewis’s early poetry collection. Discusses the “main themes [...] in light of the movement of the entire work.”

Reviews, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Sister Mary Anthony Weinig, Manfred Zimmerman, Grace E. Funk

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

Poems and Stories. J.R.R. Tolkien, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Tolkien's Art. Jane Chance Nitzsche. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Dorothy L, Sayers: Nine Literary Studies. Trevor H. Hall. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

C.S. Lewis. Spinner of Tales. Evan K. Gibson. Reviewed by Sister Mary Anthony Weinig.

J.R.R. Tolkien. "Fantasy Literature" als Wunscherfulling und Weltdeutung. Dieter Petzold. Reviewed by Manfred Zimmerman.

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ursula Le Guin, edited and with introduction by Susan Wood. Reviewed by Grace E. Funk.

Predictability And Wonder: Familiarity And Recovery In Tolkien's Works, Christine Barkley

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

Explores Tolkien’s technique of balancing the predictable and every-day with the wonderful by viewing things from unfamiliar perspectives. Links this to his ideas about “recovery” in “On Fairy-stories.”