Volume 27, Number 1 Issue 103/104, Fall/Winter (2008)
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 full text of Mythlore from 2002 onward is available in several electronic databases from Gale, Ebsco, and ProQuest. Mythlore is also indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, the Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLA), and other sources.
See the Aims and Scope for the statement of editorial purpose of the journal.
Editorial Introduction
Articles
In Memoriam: Pauline Baynes
Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
Pauline Baynes in Mythlore
Janet Brennan Croft and Edith Crowe
Reconstructing Arda: Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor
Douglas C. Kane
Gandalf and Merlin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Adoption and Transformation of a Literary Tradition
Frank P. Riga
Time and J.R.R. Tolkien's "Riddles in the Dark"
Marie Nelson
The Blade Against the Burden: The Iconography of the Sword in The Lord of the Rings
Michael J. Brisbois
A Single Leaf: Tolkien's Visual Art and Fantasy
Jeffrey J. MacLeod and Anna Smol
The Non-Dead in John Dickson Carr's The Burning Court
Joe R. Christopher
Fair Lady Goldberry, Daughter of the River
Ann McCauley Basso
Investigating the Role and Origin of Goldberry in Tolkien's Mythology
Taryne Jade Taylor
Letter
Book Reviews
Editor
- Janet Brennan Croft, University of Oklahoma
Editorial Advisory Board
- Verlyn Flieger, University of Maryland, College Park
- Charles Huttar, Hope College
- Barbara Reynolds, Cambridge University
- Peter J. Schakel, Hope College
- Richard C. West, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Donna R. White, Arkansas Tech University