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Dvalin's Doom, Douglas A. Rossman

The Mythic Circle

Deep within the endless labyrinth of grottoes and tun­ nels that ran throughout the realm of Svartalfheim, an ominous hush had fallen.

Editorial, Tina Cooper, C.I.S. Lowentrout

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No abstract provided.

The Wedding Of Beorwine, Erin Lale

The Mythic Circle

The bride of Beorwine Bells wore On kinsman's kerchief and kerseymere dress.

The Two Bridegrooms, Angelee Sailer Anderson

The Mythic Circle

There was a maid to love inclined; Cared not where she might linger, If one fair circlet she could find To set around her finger.

Sorceress Of The Slums, Janet P. Reedman

The Mythic Circle

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The White Geese, D. Lynn Smith

The Mythic Circle

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Mythic Circle #16, Tina Cooper, C.I.S. Lowentrout

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Mythic Circle #15, Tina Cooper, C.I.S. Lowentrout

The Mythic Circle

Mythic Circle issue #15, Early Summer 1993

The First King Of The Island, Erin Lale

The Mythic Circle

Out of the north came a bitter wind, And with it long, long ships. Out of the north with a frosty cry, Pale gold sailors slipped.

Ka, Dwight E. Humphries

The Mythic Circle

I fear nothing In this life or The next if I’m Allowed judgment to Become as Osiris;

Artorius Wyvernis, Amy Wolf

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Leigh squinted as she rounded a grassy corner, dazzled by the brightness of another L.A. day.

The Hazing Of Jake Lambert, Bob K. Avey

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Reunion, Ivan Hughes

The Mythic Circle

Friday, thought Redding, when she awoke. Her one Friday a month off. She guessed she’d better call about Miz Wooley.

Negating And Affirming Spirit Through Language: The Integration Of Character, Magic, And Story In The Lord Of The Rings: Part Ii, Alan Mccomas

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.

Focuses on Tolkien’s narrative treatment in The Lord of the Rings and the “Ring as an emergent symbol of language itself.” Notes that through Tolkien’s “characterization of protagonists and antagonists, his use of sub-texts and ‘sub-authors,’ Tolkien demonstrates the ways in which magic and language are bound up with one another.”

Part 1:https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol19/iss2/1

"A Bloomsbury Blue-Stocking": Dorothy L. Sayers' Bloomsbury Years In Their "Spatial And Temporal Content", Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Contends that Sayers’s “Bloomsbury years formed a significant source for and influence upon her detective fiction.”

Bram Stoker And C.S. Lewis: Dracula As A Source For That Hideous Strength, Mervyn Nicholson

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

Considers Dracula as a source for That Hideous Strength.

Why We Honor The Centenary Of Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Describes Sayers’s relationships with Lewis and Williams in particular, and their mutual influences on each other.

Harriet In Rehearsal: Hilary Thorpe In The Nine Tailors, Sarah Beach

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

Argues that the character of Hilary Thorpe in The Nine Tailors is a “rehearsal” for the “major presentation of Harriet Vane in Gaudy Night.”

Chwedl Gymaeg A Llenyddiaeth Gyfoesol: (Welsh Myth And Contemporary Literature, Kath Filmer-Davies

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

Contends religious discourse has migrated to the fantasy novel, and fantasy “invades so-called realistic novels”; examines “this theological aspect of writing applied to fantasy”; discusses several contemporary fantasies based on Welsh myth.

An Inklings Bibliography (50), Joe R. Christopher, Wayne G. Hammond

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

Entries 42–59 in this series are written by Hammond (Tolkien material) and Christopher (Lewis and other material). See Hammond, Wayne G., for one later entry in this series.

In This Issue, Glen Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

Letters, Todd W. Jensen, John Laurent, Darrell Schweitzer, Rhona Beare, Kathryn Lindskoog, Melanie Rawls

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

No abstract provided.

Artists' Comments, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Sarah Beach

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

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The Hero Who Was Thursday: A Modern Myth, Russell Carlin

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

Calls Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday a modern fantasy “that can effectively serve as an example of a true modern myth as seen through” Campbell’s journey of the hero. The “novel contains many of the structure elements and conventions” of Campbell’s monomyth while providing the reader “some particularly modern insights.”

Reviews, Glen Goodknight, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Tolkien: A Critical Assessment. Brian Rosebury. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

The Road to Middle-earth. T.A. Shippey. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. Wayne Hammond and Douglas Anderson. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

George MacDonald. William Raeper. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror. Kath Filmer. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Fragmentary Lord Peter, Joe R. Christopher

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

Outlines the unpublished or obscure writings of Sayers concerning Lord Peter Wimsey held in the Wade Collection, imagining a published volume of same.

Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev

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

Paxson, Diana. The Wolf and the Raven.

Funeral Customs In Tolkien's Fiction, Patricia Reynolds

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

Examines funeral customs and the meaning of death in Tolkien’s works, particularly the deaths of Boromir, Théoden, and Denethor. Notes similar customs of various Northern European traditions. Illustrations.

Letters, Graham D. Darling, Anne Burns, Katrelya Angus, Leonardo Da V Malaise, Clifton Holt St. Evans Malaise

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

No abstract provided.

Another Opinion Of "The Verse Of J.R.R. Tolkien", Paul Edwin Zimmer

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

Response to a paper by Melanie Rawls in Mythlore #71. Disagrees with that paper’s negative attitude toward Tolkien’s poetry, giving detailed technical analysis to support his points.