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101 Middle Eastern Tales And Their Impact On Western Oral Tradition By Ulrich Marzolph, Daniel C. Snell Apr 2024

101 Middle Eastern Tales And Their Impact On Western Oral Tradition By Ulrich Marzolph, Daniel C. Snell

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

Review of Ulrich Marzoplh, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and their Impact on Western Oral Tradition


J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy By Robert T. Tally Jr., Bianca L. Beronio Apr 2024

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy By Robert T. Tally Jr., Bianca L. Beronio

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

No abstract provided.


Historical Dictionary Of Fantasy Literature, 2nd Ed., Edited By Allen Stroud, Douglas A. Anderson Apr 2024

Historical Dictionary Of Fantasy Literature, 2nd Ed., Edited By Allen Stroud, Douglas A. Anderson

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

No abstract provided.


A Joyful Outpost: Exploring The Household Economy Of The Beavers From The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe By Aaron Bair, Josiah Peterson Apr 2024

A Joyful Outpost: Exploring The Household Economy Of The Beavers From The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe By Aaron Bair, Josiah Peterson

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

Aaron Bair’s new book on Mr. and Mrs. Beaver from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe combines scholarship with promotion of traditional values he believes are in keeping with C.S. Lewis’s view of the world.


Journey Back Again: Reasons To Visit Middle-Earth, Edited By Diana Pavlac Glyer, Kristine Larsen Apr 2024

Journey Back Again: Reasons To Visit Middle-Earth, Edited By Diana Pavlac Glyer, Kristine Larsen

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

A review of the collection of essays Journey Back Again: Reasons to Visit Middle-earth, edited by Diana Pavlac Glyer.


Ursula K. Le Guin’S “A Wizard Of Earthsea”: A Critical Companion By Timothy S. Miller, And Ursula Le Guin’S Earthsea By John Plotz, David Bratman Apr 2024

Ursula K. Le Guin’S “A Wizard Of Earthsea”: A Critical Companion By Timothy S. Miller, And Ursula Le Guin’S Earthsea By John Plotz, David Bratman

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

No abstract provided.


The Medieval Worlds Of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf To Sleeping Beauty By Shiloh Carroll, Kris Swank Apr 2024

The Medieval Worlds Of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf To Sleeping Beauty By Shiloh Carroll, Kris Swank

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

Review of the book The Medieval Worlds of Neil Gaiman: From Beowulf to Sleeping Beauty by Shiloh Carroll.


J.R.R. Tolkien In Central Europe: Context, Directions, And The Legacy Edited By Janka Kascakova And David Levente Palatinus, Nancy Martsch Apr 2024

J.R.R. Tolkien In Central Europe: Context, Directions, And The Legacy Edited By Janka Kascakova And David Levente Palatinus, Nancy Martsch

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

No abstract provided.


Pursuing An Earthly Spirituality: C.S. Lewis And Incarnational Faith By Gary S. Selby, Sarah O'Dell Apr 2024

Pursuing An Earthly Spirituality: C.S. Lewis And Incarnational Faith By Gary S. Selby, Sarah O'Dell

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

Review of Pursuing an Earthy Spirituality: C.S. Lewis and Incarnational Faith, by Gary S. Selby.


Essays Triologue: Kepler, Twain, Lewis By Susan Dorman, Sharon L. Bolding Apr 2024

Essays Triologue: Kepler, Twain, Lewis By Susan Dorman, Sharon L. Bolding

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

Review of Essays Triologue: Kepler, Twain, Lewis by Susan Dorman. A collection of essays in support of her creative writing endeavors, this review looks at the thematic and analytical structure of her academic research leading up to her creative writing publications concerning fantastic voyages.


Fantasy: How It Works By Brian Attebery, Glenn Gray Apr 2024

Fantasy: How It Works By Brian Attebery, Glenn Gray

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

No abstract provided.


In Memoriam: Peter J. Schakel, Janet Brennan Croft Apr 2024

In Memoriam: Peter J. Schakel, Janet Brennan Croft

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

Peter Schakel was a prominent Lewis Scholar and long-time member of the Mythlore editorial board.


In Memoriam: Richard Plotz, Janet Brennan Croft Apr 2024

In Memoriam: Richard Plotz, Janet Brennan Croft

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

Dick Plotz was the founder of the American Tolkien Society, which later merged into the Mythopoeic Society.


Some Observations On The Newspaper Reports On Tolkien’S Andrew Lang Lecture In 1939, Matthew Thompson-Handell Apr 2024

Some Observations On The Newspaper Reports On Tolkien’S Andrew Lang Lecture In 1939, Matthew Thompson-Handell

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

Observations about how newspaper reports were written and filed in the late 1930s lead to a reassessment of the contents of the “On Fairy-stories” lecture and its differences from the published version.


Whatever Happened To The Princess Bride?: Thoughts For Further William Goldman Research, G. Connor Salter Apr 2024

Whatever Happened To The Princess Bride?: Thoughts For Further William Goldman Research, G. Connor Salter

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

This note considers why research on William Goldman, best known to fantasy fans as the author the the screenplay for The Princess Bride, has been sparse, and the potential to study him as a mythopoeic author.


Orpheus And The Harrowing Of Hell In The Tale Of Beren And Lúthien, Giovanni Carmine Costabile Apr 2024

Orpheus And The Harrowing Of Hell In The Tale Of Beren And Lúthien, Giovanni Carmine Costabile

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

Critics have observed that Beren and Lúthien’s tale is a Christian retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The “Harrowing of Hell” tradition is widespread in Italy as attested by the mosaic of San Marco among others, but it is in France that the Ovid Moralized reconnects it to Orpheus who descended into the Underworld to save Eurydice (an already late antique parallel) and therefore attests a happy ending version of the story that can be found in medieval England and also in various classical sources, perhaps even in the original legend of Orpheus. The apocryphal Harrowing is also …


Tolkien, Augustinian Theodicy, And 'Lovecraftian' Evil, Perry Neil Harrison Apr 2024

Tolkien, Augustinian Theodicy, And 'Lovecraftian' Evil, Perry Neil Harrison

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

A number of scholars have commented upon Augustine of Hippo’s influence upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s portrayal of evil in his legendarium. However, in his seminal work J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, Tom Shippey pushes back against this perception, noting that there are some forms of evil in the legendarium that do not adhere to the Augustine’s belief that evil is merely a “twisting” of good. This article argues that Ungoliant is one such exception to the Augustinian paradigm because of the uncertainty regarding her origins.This uncertainty complicates the Augustinian view of evil that permeates the legendarium and instead echoes …


Substance Abuse: The Symbolic Geography Of Hell In The Great Divorce, Richard A. Bergen Apr 2024

Substance Abuse: The Symbolic Geography Of Hell In The Great Divorce, Richard A. Bergen

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

Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a Romantic vision of evil energy that reaches to the heavens, a geographical representation of capacity and scope and perpetual cosmic change. On the other hand, Lewis’s vision of hell in The Great Divorce is that of a land without substance: a conurbation of addiction to mental maladies, an endless mental substance abuse, an emptying of presence, and a banal stasis to the journey of the soul. Many of Lewis’s sources and inspirations for The Great Divorce, similarly, portray hell as a land of paradoxical “seeming-largeness”, while having ontological smallness. Throughout …


Introduction To Special Issue: Fantasy Goes To Hell, Janet Brennan Croft, Erin Giannini Apr 2024

Introduction To Special Issue: Fantasy Goes To Hell, Janet Brennan Croft, Erin Giannini

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

No abstract provided.


The Fairy Tale World, Edited By Andrew Teverson, Janet Brennan Croft Oct 2023

The Fairy Tale World, Edited By Andrew Teverson, Janet Brennan Croft

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

No abstract provided.


After Humanity: A Guide To C.S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man By Michael Ward, Jeremy M. Rios Oct 2023

After Humanity: A Guide To C.S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man By Michael Ward, Jeremy M. Rios

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

No abstract provided.


Robert Holdstock’S Mythago Wood: A Critical Companion By Paul Kincaid, Glenn Gray Oct 2023

Robert Holdstock’S Mythago Wood: A Critical Companion By Paul Kincaid, Glenn Gray

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

No abstract provided.


Tending The Heart Of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken A Child’S Moral Imagination, Second Edition, By Vigen Guroian, Sarah O'Dell Oct 2023

Tending The Heart Of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken A Child’S Moral Imagination, Second Edition, By Vigen Guroian, Sarah O'Dell

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

No abstract provided.


Sunbeams And Bottles: The Theology, Thought And Reading Of C. S. Lewis By James Prothero, Suzanne Bray Oct 2023

Sunbeams And Bottles: The Theology, Thought And Reading Of C. S. Lewis By James Prothero, Suzanne Bray

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

No abstract provided.


Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology Of Iberian Scholarship On Tolkien, Nancy Martsch Oct 2023

Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology Of Iberian Scholarship On Tolkien, Nancy Martsch

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

No abstract provided.


Adapting Tolkien: Proceedings Of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2020, Edited By Will Sherwood, Alana White Oct 2023

Adapting Tolkien: Proceedings Of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2020, Edited By Will Sherwood, Alana White

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

A review of Adapting Tolkien: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2020, considering the individual contributions which make up this volume.


How To Misunderstand Tolkien: The Critics And The Fantasy Master By Bruno Bacelli, Nancy Martsch Oct 2023

How To Misunderstand Tolkien: The Critics And The Fantasy Master By Bruno Bacelli, Nancy Martsch

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

No abstract provided.


Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology Through Mythology With The Maker Of Middle-Earth By Austin M. Freeman, Alex (Oleksiy) Ostaltsev Oct 2023

Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology Through Mythology With The Maker Of Middle-Earth By Austin M. Freeman, Alex (Oleksiy) Ostaltsev

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

The powerful and highly informative definitions that Freeman applies to Tolkien’s Middle-earth phenomenon in the title of his book create a productive interpretational framework. Myth and mythology in Inklings’ writing were always understood, in an almost Jungian way, as a cultural paradigm flexible enough to embrace the free creativity of the playful human mind and a philosophical postulate, or credo, of the humanistic religious intuition of Christianity. In Freeman’s interpretation, Tolkien’s literary myth in some ways requires a theological background, which, in its turn, leads to inevitable dogma, a statement that reveals the sensitive mechanics of literary myth as it …


Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends In Speculative Stories From Australia To Chile, Edited By Valerie Estelle Frankel, Gabriel Salter Oct 2023

Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends In Speculative Stories From Australia To Chile, Edited By Valerie Estelle Frankel, Gabriel Salter

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

In Jewish Fantasy Worldwide, edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel, authors examine a wide variety of speculative fiction written by Jewish authors. Particular emphasis is given to understudied authors and cultures (such as Jewish speculative fiction published in Australia and Eastern European countries). Several essays deal with the nature of Jewish identity (Holocaust remembrance's role for post-WWII Jewish writers, changing identity markers as agnosticism or secularism becomes more popular among Jewish authors).


In Memoriam: Mike Foster, Janet Brennan Croft Oct 2023

In Memoriam: Mike Foster, Janet Brennan Croft

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

No abstract provided.