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Cinderella's Revenge / Sleeping Beauty / Snow White Speaks Out, Jill Solnicki

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Cinderella’s Revenge: Sisters, you shut me by the hearth, by the broom and cinders, Sleeping Beauty: Wake me wake me I have slept so long the sun rising falling leaves uncurling crumbling Snow White Speaks Out: I see everything through the glass The tree that forms a roof, a canopy over my coffin,

Walking On Royal Carpets / Meteorite, Owen R. Neill, Jill Solnicki

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Walking on Royal Carpets: No sun penetrates here, Holy man-light in these halls of halls Meteorite: What news did it bring crashing out of the night

Merlusine, Janet P. Reedman

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I had been wandering for a year when I stumbled on Castra Castle. The month was Mys Rhagvyr, the Year’s Wane, and the weather had been cruel and cold, bringing snow and ice and hail

Janus Winked, Charles W. Ryan

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Jeremiah Sharpe listened to the revelers in the street below, hunched himself against the nagging chill, and listened with grudging envy to the hoots and laughter muted by the dusty, rain-streaked window glass.

Giants Of Avalon, Mel Hunnicutt

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King Arthur stood in the doorway of his tent, gazing nervously into the valley where the Saxon army camped.

Elfin Corner Trees, Charles Rampp

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surprized each dawn, our morning star and i as crescent moon pales

Mythic Circle #10, Lynn Maudlin, Christine Lowentrout, Tina Cooper

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Welcome to The Mythic Circle #10. We have a first in this issue: a pair of stories written by father and son. Dan Ryan, a Phoenix, Arizona, high school student, has written a re-telling of the Romeo & Juliet story entitled “The Chain." His father, Charles W. Ryan, provides us with a short story called “Janus Winked." You’ll also notice we’re running a lot of poetry in this issue, including a series of poems by Jill Solnicki that examine fairy tale heroines from an unusual angle.

The Old Millstream, James Hartley

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The old mill stream. Sounds corny, doesn't it? But that’s where it was. I’ve been living in a rural area ever since my, er, "retirement," and I go on long walks a lot.

Cairnwoman, Rosamund I. Flambard

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On a sun-warmed boulder far from the other children in her class, Francie Dunster sat eating her frugal lunch.

The Magus, Mel Waldman

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"Get out of here, kid!" Buster said to The Magus. "You’re finished! Just another Brooklyn bum who made good and blew it."

Sea Spiders, Sue Nevill

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Straight from the sea they come, straight from the mouth of the great bronze god, sightless Poseidon

Lohengrin, Owen R. Neill

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Knight of the morning swan flowing; Light of the waters through time mists gleaming

Untitled / The Flutist, Rhea Rose, Jill Solnicki

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Untitled: Cindy lives in the emerald sea Where water babies tug her hair The Flutist: lifted the silver shaft of light to his lips then danced

Letters Of Comment, Donna Farley, Pat Reynolds, Owen R. Neill, Angelee Sailer Anderson, Ron Blizzard, Ruth G. Mortensen, Anne Valley, C. R. Schabel, Gwenyth E. Hood, Joan Marie Verba, Erin Lale, Amos Hufflebinger

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Letters from readers in The Mythic Circle #10.

Annwyn Castle / Dragon Sol / Eye Of Miranda, Owen R. Neill, Rhea Rose

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Annwyn Castle: The castle turns and turns westerly, gleaming westerly, all glass and radiating rainbows. Dragon Sol: the golden blood of gods pounds in your core, searing sea of molten force Eye of Miranda: dark shepherdess of epsilon whose lightless watch and silent cyclic trek

Secret Of The Golden Bough, Owen R. Neill

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Thunder and lightning lie among the branches, celestial fire sent as pledge on earth

Sunset And Dawn…, E. R. Lifeson

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In Her sadness, the Mother of All wept.

M.I.A., Patricia Ellen Flinn

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One morning after a long and fitful night of dream-drenched sleep, Helen Blake awoke and discovered to her astonishment that she had been transformed into a large and dazzling butterfly.

The Betrayed, Erin Lale

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The long hall is hung with festive banners. Many Khuzhar are here, celebrating with us our victory over another Soft Poofie town, and loot was piled high on the cloth-covered table along with the rib roast and steaming plates of multicolored roots.

Quenti Lambardillion: Runing On Empty: Charting A New Course, Paul Nolan Hyde

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

Presents a chart of runic characters used in different languages and periods of Middle-earth history.

A Grief Observed: Fact Or Fiction?, Mary V. Borhek

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

Disagrees with Walter Hooper’s contention that Lewis’s marriage was never consummated. Uses excerpts from A Grief Observed as well as letters of Lewis, Davidman, and others. Discusses claims that A Grief Observed is fictionalized, not autobiographical, but concludes the latter is true.

Tolkien's "New" Mythology, William Edwin Bettridge

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

Discusses Tolkien’s particular retelling in The Lord of the Rings of three basic mythic elements: the quest, its outcome, and the kinds of characters needed to achieve it.

Following The Middle Way, Glen Goodknight

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

Continues his “Letter” from issue #61, suggesting that the Society consciously follow a “Middle Way” between fandom and academia, between exclusivity and eclecticism.

Feminist Myth In Le Guin's "Sur", Barbara Brown

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

Argues that Le Guin has created in “Sur” a “myth of women explorers, a myth of female heroes.” Contrasts the fictional all-female Antarctic expedition with historical examples, the latter focusing on the individual and the former on the collective.

An Inklings Bibliography (39), Joe R. Christopher, Wayne G. Hammond, Pat Allen Hargis

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

For entries 34–41 in this series, Hammond reviews Tolkien titles, Christopher reviews the Lewis material, and Hargis reviews Williams and the other Inklings.

Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev

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

Le Guin, Ursula K. Tehanu.

Reviews, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Kathryn Lindskoog, Glen Goodknight

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

C.S. Lewis: A Biography. A.N. Wilson. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

C.S. Lewis: A Biography. A.N. Wilson. Reviewed by Kathryn Lindskoog.

Letters to Lalage: the Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims. Lois Lang-Sims. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Letters to Lalage: the Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims. Lois Lang-Sims. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

The Riddle of Joy: G.K. Chesteron and C.S. Lewis. Michael H. MacDonald and Andrew A Tadie. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Three Modern Views Of Merlin, Gwyneth Evans

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

Examines the use of Merlin as a character in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, two novels by J.C. Powys, and Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series. Notes parallels and differences in Merlin’s power, role, prophetic ability, link with the divine, and vulnerability.

Letters, David Bratman, Margaret Carter, J. E.C. Kelson, Paul Nolan Hyde

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

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Orc Hosts, Armies And Legions: A Demographic Study, Tom Loback

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

Calculates the likely population of Orcs in Middle-earth at various times based on Tolkien’s use of the military terms host, army, and legion. Uses The Silmarillion and several volumes of The History of Middle-earth to “show a developing concept of Orc military organization and, by inference, an idea of Orc demographics.”