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Seamist For Two Voices, Clelie Rich

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Who waits by the seashore, there on the rocks, grey and cold and forlorn?

The Dream She Never Told You / The River Of Glass / Wooden Masks, Howard Tessler, Zan Agzigian

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The Dream She Never Told You: Colors dark and somber from a world buried deep in secrets and lore. The River of Glass: dream rocks in the lonely river black rocks smooth the water’s ripple in a mixture of reflection Wooden Masks: i felt the wake of wooden masks, and wept for city lights through swaying branches, raised

Signs Of The Times, Gwenyth E. Hood

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The Cherry spread her blossoms in the fall White and dainty among the golden leaves, Before the deep-red-ivy coated wall

Olde Ballade, Gwenyth E. Hood

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Come, listen to the Story Olde Of two Cities and a Friar Bolde

Now And Then / Wind, Maybe / Once Upon, Walter Kuchinsky

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Now and Then: Birds, there in the air and fish, there in the sea then, as now, as then are really one for me Wind, Maybe: Didn’t hear anything, last night Once Upon: ONCE UPON a late night, easy chair, living room, Pheasant Glen

The Silencebringers, David Sparenberg

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The man who loves the earth whose love is genuine

Sean's Retort, Howard Tessler

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I hunt to fill my table; to sate my hunger.

Medicine Cord, David Sparenberg

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I grasp in my hands today the tail feather of a hawk

Red Hawk Song / Mount Lowe 1978 / Higher, David Sparenberg, Paul Newman

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Red Hawk Song: I admit that I love you. My heart sings strongly through the fires of my body. Mount Lowe 1978: Ruins rambled, too well sifted Higher: Watching the crows' realm, treetop mopers amidst cloud erasers of the blue.

Passage In The Night, Brian Mason

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The fire had gone out and I was unable to get it started again. I had been a Boy Scout and all that, but without dry kindling I could not get more than a few flickers of flame.

Enforced Adaptation, V. W. Massie

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Coryann Sayre woke to blessed silence. Then she remembered; there was cotton in her ears.

The Rune Master, Conda V. Douglas

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Emerad stood upon the tower, watch­ing the far-off wisps of smoke from the battlefield.

A Special Bus, Charles Rampp

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Winter was dragging along its weary way toward spring, which seemed far in an indefinite future.

The Light That Was Lorainne, Dan O'Keefe

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One second, I sat alone in my bedroom, in my wheelchair. I stared out the only window at a neighbor across the street mowing her lawn.

Sun-Time, Suzanne Burgoyne Dieckman

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Mryeshta sat on the riverback, watching skyrr birds skim over the water in little leafy boats. The sun sat high in the sky.

The Theft Of The Sun, Douglas A. Rossman

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It is told that when the great skald Dag Ormseeker was but a mere lad, his mother, the swan-maiden Hervor, sent him off to live with her brother, Ragnar Rune-Wise, the fatherless boy having reached an age when he required the kind of training that only a man could provide.

Cat's Paw, Amy Wolf

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The frozen expanse of Balion Wood was silent, save for deerskin boots crunch­ing against snow.

Mythic Circle #11, Tina Cooper, Christine Lowentrout

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Welcome to The Mythic Circle #11. This issue offers some variations on a theme of Winter-into-Spring, particularly Doug Rossman’s notable "The Theft of the Sun"; let us know if you enjoy the seasonal parallelism. You’ll also notice that we continue to run a lot of poetry, including a series of poems by Dirk Verhulst which delicately probe the terror in everyday life, and a wryly lyrical series by Clelie Rich.

War And Priorities, Glen Goodknight

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

The issue of our devotion of time to reading and discussing books verbally and in print is called into particular question in times of crisis such as we are experiencing now. The present struggle in the Persian Gulf intensifies a dialog, that if not stated explicitly between people, does nevertheless run continually barely below the level of our consciousness. In this time of momentous turmoil and concern, my mind returns to what C.S. Lewis said in an address he gave in September of 1939, as England was about to be plunged into the crucible of World War II. This address …

Only Half A Moon Outside, Zan Agzigian

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he mumbled low, hidden in past footsteps, beaming through the tom branches needling his head

Over Middle-Earth Sent Unto Men: On The Philological Origins Of Tolkien's Eärendel Myth, Carl F. Hostetter

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Goes beyond Carpenter’s well-known reference to Cynewulf’s Christ as Tolkien’s “primary inspiration” for Eärendel. Seeks out the philological roots of various aspects of Eärendel (star, messenger, mariner, eagle, herald).

The Inklings In America, Glen H. Goodknight, Joe R. Christopher, Alexei Kondratiev, Diana L. Paxson

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

Transcription of a panel discussion at the 19th Mythopoeic Conference.

Lewis And Barfield On Imagination: Part Ii, Stephen Thorson

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

THIS IS A TWO-PART ARTICLE. IN ORDER TO READ OR DOWNLOAD THE OTHER PART, FOLLOW THE LINK AT THE END OF THIS ABSTRACT.

Contrasts Lewis’s and Barfield’s views on imagination, and its relationship to truth and knowledge.

Part 1:https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol17/iss2/2

The Elves At Koivienéni: A New Quenya Sentence, Christopher Gilson, Patrick Wynne

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

Reprinted from Vinyar Tengwar 14 (Nov. 1990). Analysis of a Quenya I (previously unpublished) from a Tolkien manuscript at Marquette University. Points out ambiguities in the manuscript and relates the grammar of the sentence to published examples of Quenya.

Arthurian Wantons: Language, Lust, And Time In Victorian Poetry And Drama, M. K. Louis

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Compares several Victorian treatments of the Matter of Britain. Includes Tennyson’s moralistic version as well as “theologically and linguistically subversive” works of later Victorians.

A Comprehensive Index Of Proper Names And Phrases In The Hobbit, Paul Nolan Hyde

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

Indexes the names in The Hobbit, including personal names, nicknames, place names, unique phrases, and invented words.

The Making Of Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, George Hersh

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

Transcript of panel discussion from 1988 Mythopoeic Conference. Author, illustrator, composer, and cartographer/ researcher discuss the genesis of Always Coming Home.

Quenti Lambardillion: A Column On Middle-Earth Linguistics - Pointing With An Index Finger: "Five Feet High With Door And Three May Walk Abreast", Paul Nolan Hyde

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

Discusses the process of creating his various concordances, glossaries, and indexes to Tolkien’s languages.

Reviews, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Pat Reynolds, Glen Goodknight, David Bratman

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Outline of Romantic Theology. Charles Williams. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Saga of Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer. Intro and Translation by Jesse L. Byock. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie. Ed. Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs. Reviewed by Pat Reynolds.

The C.S. Lewis Handbook. Colin Duriez. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

Let There Be Light. Ill. Pauline Baynes. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft. Rosemary Ellen Guiley. Reviewed by David Bratman.

Letters, Kathryn Lindskoog, Mary M. Stolzenbach

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

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