Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons^™

Letters, Alexei Kondratiev, L. D. Fleckenstein Jr., Nancy-Lou Patterson, Jim Allan, Joseph R. Firneno, Alan Cohen, Mike Bazinet, Mary M. Stolzenbach, Margaret R. Purdy, Jessica Kemball-Cook, Valerie Protopapas, L. Sprague De Camp, Jeanne Wardwell

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

No abstract provided.

Dorothy L. Sayers And The Inklings, Joe R. Christopher

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

Notes known connections to Lewis and Williams on Sayers’s part (through the evidence of letters). Speculates on ways they may have influenced each other. Includes an excerpt from a Sayers letter on the Narnia books.

A Briefing For Briefing: Charles Williams' Descent Into Hell And Doris Lessing's Briefing For A Descent Into Hell, Ellen Cronan Rose

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

Asserts that “Doris Lessing’s naming of her book and its protagonist was both intentional and ironic, and that it acknowledges her indebtedness to the form of Williams’ fiction and her [...] futile gesture toward the Romantic amalgam of appearance and reality.”

Reminiscences, Walter Hooper

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

Text of a talk at Mythcon VI by Walter Hooper, who worked for C.S. Lewis as his secretary for some time.

A Toast To The Memory Of C. S. Lewis, A. C. Harwood

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

Text of a toast given by Cecil Harwood at the Friends of Lewis Party, 4 July 1975, at Magdalene College, Oxford. A collection of personal anecdotes by a longtime friend.

A Postscript On Kenneth Morris (1879-1937), Dainis Bisenieks

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

No abstract provided.

Reviews, Joe R. Christopher, George Colvin, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Dark Wood to White Rose: A Study of Meanings in Dante's "Divine Comedy." Helen M. Luke. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher.

The Singer. Calvin Miller. Reviewed by George Colvin.

The Emperor Constantine: A Chronicle. Dorothy L. Sayers. Reviewed by George Colvin.

Mithrandir. Stephen O. Miller, illus. by Jean Brill. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Middle Earth—A World in Conflict. Stephen O. Miller, illus. by James Shull. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

C.S. Lewis: Reactions From Women, Kathryn Lindskoog

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

Recounts the experiences of eight women (including the author) who knew C.S. Lewis.

Toward A Sacramental Ecology: Technology, Nature And Transcendence In C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy, Ed Chapman

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

A study of ecological themes in Lewis’s Space Trilogy which concludes that Lewis was not (as many assume) hostile to science. Views it as “probably true” that he was “hostile to industrialism and technology,” however. Argues that “Lewis’s ecological concern was related to his vision of religious transcendence.”

Editorial, Glen H. Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

Letters, Margaret M. Howes, Jessica Kemball-Cook, Frank A. Hallock, Lloyd Alexander, Harry Warner Jr., Alexei Kondratiev, Pierre H. Berube, L. D. Fleckenstein Jr.

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

No abstract provided.

An Inklings Bibliography (1), Joe R. Christopher

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

A series of bibliographies of primary and secondary works concerning the Inklings.

An Enlargement Of Being, Glen H. Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

Finder Of The Welsh Gods, Dainis Bisenieks

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

Discusses the fantasies of Kenneth Morris based on Welsh mythology.

Homo Monstrosus: Lloyd Alexander’S Gurgi And Other Shadow Figures Of Fantastic Literature, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Discusses Gurgi as the shadow archetype in Alexander’s Prydain Cycle and compares him to examples in other literature.

Celtic Myth In The Twentieth Century, Evangeline Walton

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

Discusses Celtic myth and “the comments made on it and its influence by the Celtic-born authors who can be said to influenced [her] own work.”

The Fool, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Warfare And Strategy In The Lord Of The Rings, Paul M. Lloyd

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

After a brief analysis of the medieval nature of the arms, armor, and troops in the War of the Ring, examines the strategic advantages and disadvantages of both sides. Postulates Sauron’s “poverty of imagination” as a fatal flaw. The realistic depiction of military strategy gives The Lord of the Rings a feeling of “true” history.

Footnotes From "The Christian Character Of Tolkien's Invented World", Willis D. Glover

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

No abstract provided.

Climbing Jacob’S Ladder: A Hierarchical Approach To Imagistic Mysticism, Joe R. Christopher

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

Discusses a number of poets and writers (including Lewis and Williams) related by similar philosophical and mystical traditions. Demonstrates how their work relates to Rudolph Otto’s definition of the Imagistic Way and its stages.

Missives To Mythlore, John L. Leland, Kathleen J. Gibbs

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

No abstract provided.

Book Review, Ed Chapman

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

The Not-World. Thomas Burnett Swann. Reviewed by Ed Chapman.

Juniper Hill: Continued, Tatiana Szeftel

Mythril

Nicholas Silverseed, the son of a magician, has from his long-absent father a coming-of-age gift: a birthday sneeze.

Services In Oxford And Los Angeles, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

In Tribute: What J.R.R. Tolkien Means To Some Of His Admirers, Benjamin Urrutia, William Rust Norris, Poul Anderson, Joe R. Christopher, James Allen, Janest B. Fisher, Diana Paxson Decles, Jeanne Wardwell, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

No abstract provided.

Green Dragon, Ed Meskys

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

No abstract provided.

The Christian Character Of Tolkien's Invented World, Willis B. Glover

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

Examines Christian aspects of Tolkien’s fiction, showing how Middle-earth is a Christian world in spite of the absence of overt Christian references.

Missives To Mythlore, Margaret Esmonde, Harry Warner Jr., Janet B. Fisher, Paul M. Lloyd

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

No abstract provided.

"Death And The Desire For Deathlessness", Glen Goodknight

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

Reproduces a letter from Tolkien to Dr. Herbert Schiro (later included in Letters, but at this time previously unpublished). Discusses Tolkien’s assertion that The Lord of the Rings is at heart about death and the desire for deathlessness, and speculates on its survival as a literary classic.

The Place Of Myth In A Mythical Land: Two Notes (Converging), Lionel Basney

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

Discusses aspects of “reality to the senses” and communication of “lore” in The Lord of the Rings. Notes Tolkien’s use of invented mythology within his secondary world and his technique for making that world real to the senses.