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Reviews, Glen Goodknight, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Thomas M. Egan

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

The Shaping of Middle-earth: The Quenta, The Ambarkanta and The Annals, together with the earliest 'Silmarillion' and the First Map. J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. by Christopher Tolkien. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The 1987 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar. Illustrated by Alan Lee, Roger Garland, Ted Nasmith and John Howe. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

Dragons of Light. Ace Books. Reviewed by Thomas M. Egan.

Dragons of Darkness. Ace Books. Reviewed by Thomas M. Egan.

The Stars and the Stillness: A Portrait of George MacDonald. Kathy Triggs. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Mythopoesis, Sarah Beach

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

Discusses the hard-to-define quality of mythopoeic fantasy.

An Interview With Jane Yolen

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

Discusses several of Yolen’s stories and her novel Cards of Grief: techniques, influences, experiences with critical reception, recurrent imagery.

The Feast Of Reason: Out Of The Silent Planet As The Book Of Hnau, Jeannette Hume Lutton

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

Discusses the concept of hnau as developed in Out of the Silent Planet. Identifies Platonic and medieval ideas of the Rational Soul (and its faculties of intellectus and ratio) as applied to Malacandra. Sees Out of the Silent Planet as expressive of the apprehension of spiritual truth through Reason; Revelation is saved for Perelandra.

Reviews, David Bratman, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Benjamin Urrutia

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

The Politics of Fantasy: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Lee D. Rossi. Reviewed by David Bratman.

Shadowlands: The Story of C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman. Brian Sibley. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Silver Trumpet. Owen Barfield. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Grand Miracle and Other Essays on Theology and Ethics from God in the Dock. C.S. Lewis. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

First and Second Things: Essays on Theology and Ethics. C.S. Lewis. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Art of G.K. Chesterton. Alzina Stone Dale. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion. Stephan P. Clarke. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson. …

Editor's Notes, Glen Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

Caliban Between The Worlds, David Bratman

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

Study of Caliban as a character in Shakespeare’s Tempest, as a metaphor, and as a character re-interpreted by post-Shakespearean authors.

Early Review Of Books By J.R.R. Tolkien: Part V, George H. Thompson

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

Briefly annotated checklist of minor early secondary materials on Tolkien not represented in Judith A. Johnson’s Six Decades of Tolkien Criticism. Part V covers The Lord of the Rings, New Editions. The three parts of the final article cover Tree and Leaf, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and The Road Goes Ever On and Poems and Songs of Middle-earth.

Early Review Of Books By J.R.R. Tolkien, George H. Thompson

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

Briefly annotated checklist of minor early secondary materials on Tolkien not represented in Judith A. Johnson’s Six Decades of Tolkien Criticism.