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 41, Number 1 Fall 2022, #141 (2022)
Editorial Introduction
Articles
David Lindsay's The Violet Apple
Eric Wills
History in the Margins: Epigraphs and Negative Space in Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Apprentice
Matthew Oliver
Echoing Ecopoetics: Fantasy Literature's Background Sounds
Catherine Olver
“Read this Book, and You Will Find all the Grand and Marvelous Things to be Found”: A Song of Ice and Fire and Medieval Travelogues
Elisabeth Brander
Haunted Manikins and the Hero(es) Within: The Modern Romantic Hero as the Divinely Inspired Person Inside of the Personality
Mikaela E.S. von Kursell
Tellers of Dark Fairy Tales: Common Themes in the Works of C.S. Lewis and Terence Fisher
Gabriel C. Salter
“What happened to battles are ugly affairs?”: Fighting Girls in the Films The Chronicles of Narnia, Chapters 1, 2 and 3
Anne-Frédérique Mochel-Caballero
Notes
What Sam Said
David Bratman
Book Reviews
Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth by Robert Stuart
Robert T. Tally Jr.
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology by Taylor Driggers
C. Palmer-Patel
Friendship in The Lord of the Rings by Cristina Casagrande
Mark A. Brians II
Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-Inherence by Paul S. Fiddes
Tiffany Brooke Martin
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Phillip Ball
Janet Brennan Croft
Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings by Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann
Sharon L. Bolding
Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heiðrek and Hrólf Kraki and His Champions, translated and edited by Jackson Crawford, and Norse Mythology by Jackson Crawford
Phillip Fitzsimmons
Briefly Noted

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