Mythlore is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published by the Mythopoeic Society that focuses on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and the genres of myth and fantasy.
THE HISTORY OF MYTHLORE
Mythlore was founded in 1969 by the late Glen GoodKnight, Founder of the Mythopoeic Society. He edited its first 84 issues, with the exception of issues 18–23, which were edited by Gracia Fay Ellwood. In its early years, Mythlore was a “fanzine” that, in addition to scholarly articles, columns, and book and media reviews, included a great deal of art work, poetry, and other creative work. Over the years, the articles became more and more exclusively scholarly, and the creative work and fiction reviews moved to sister publications like Mythprint and Mythic Circle. When Dr. Theodore Sherman of Middle Tennessee State University assumed the editorship with issue #85 in 1999, Mythlore completed its transformation into a refereed scholarly journal publishing only articles and reviews. At that time, its format also changed from 8½” x 11” to 6½” x 9”. Janet Brennan Croft, currently of the University of Northern Iowa, became editor in 2006 and switched to a double-issue format with issue #93/94. The journal was published in two double issues per year, in approximately April and November through Spring 2013. In Fall 2013 the double issue numbering was dropped starting with issue #123, and electronic subscriptions became available for individuals.
Current Issue: Volume 42, Number 1 Fall/Winter 2023, #143 (2023)
Editorial Introduction
Articles
The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder of Frodo Baggins
Bruce D. Leonard
"It Is 'About' Nothing But Itself": Tolkienian Theology Beyond the Domination of the Author
Tom Emanuel
“Or Break It”: The Cost of Silmarils and Sworn Oaths
Alexander M. Bruce
"A Bleak, Barren Land": Women and Fertility in The Lord of the Rings
Dylan L. Henderson
Otherworldly but not the Otherworld: Tolkien’s Adaptation of Medieval Faerie and Fairies into a Sub-creative Elvendom
Elliott Thomas Collins
Mythos to Myth to Mythopoeia: A Cyclical Process
Ashna Mary Jacob and Nirmala Menon
Notes and Letters
"A Fearful Weapon"
Verlyn Flieger
The Sun, the Son, and the Silmarillion: Christopher Tolkien and the Copernican Revolution of Morgoth’s Ring
Kristine Larsen
On the Rings of Power: Thoughts Inspired by Larry Burriss's "Sentience and Sapience in the One Ring"
Nancy Martsch
Nine Tolkien Scholars Respond to Charles W. Mills’s “The Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orkish Manifesto”
Robin A. Reid Dr., Bianca Beronio, Robert T. Tally, Cait Coker, Cami Agan, Robert Stuart, Charlotte Krausz, Tom Ue, and Helen Young
To the Editor
Charles (Chuck) Huttar
The C. S. Lewis Correspondence Project
Bruce R. Johnson
In Memoriam: Mike Foster
Janet Brennan Croft
Book Reviews
Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis by Don W. King
David Bratman
C. S. Lewis for Beginners by Louis Markos
Wendell Wagner
Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories From Australia to Chile, edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel
Gabriel Salter
Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth by Austin M. Freeman
Alex (Oleksiy) Ostaltsev
The Lion's Country: C.S. Lewis's Theory of the Real by Charlie W. Starr
Mark-Elliot Finley
Adapting Tolkien: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2020, edited by Will Sherwood
Alana White
East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C.S. Lewis by Warwick Ball
Phillip Irving Mitchell
Sunbeams and Bottles: The Theology, Thought and Reading of C. S. Lewis by James Prothero
Suzanne Bray
Briefly Noted
The Fairy Tale World, edited by Andrew Teverson
Janet Brennan Croft

Editor
- Janet Brennan Croft, University of Northern Iowa
- Phillip Fitzsimmons, Administrator of Mythlore and Society Archives, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
- Verlyn Flieger, University of Maryland, College Park
- Charles Huttar, Hope College
- Peter J. Schakel, Hope College
- Rev. John W. Houghton, The Hill School, Pottstown
- Douglas A. Anderson, Independent Scholar
- Donna R. White, Arkansas Tech University
- Christopher Vaccaro, University of Vermont
- Robin Anne Reid, Independent Scholar