Volume 36, Number 1 Issue 131, Fall/Winter (2017)
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.
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Mythlore Art, Issue 131
Sarah Lucy Beach
Editorial Introduction
Articles
“Things That Were, and Things That Are, and Things That Yet May Be”: The J.R.R. Tolkien Manuscript Collection at Marquette University
William M. Fliss
Into the Wild Woods: On the Significance of Trees and Forests in Fantasy Fiction
Weronika Łaszkiewicz
‘Morning Stars of a Setting World’: Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturæ and Tolkien’s Legendarium as Neo-Platonic Mythopoeia.
Christopher Vaccaro
‘A Warp of Horror’: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sub-creations of Evil
Richard Angelo Bergen
‘Your Mother Died to Save You’: The Influence of Mothers in Constructing Moral Frameworks for Violence in Harry Potter
Margaret S. Mauk
J.R.R. Tolkien and the 1954 Nomination of E.M. Forster for the Nobel Prize in Literature
Dennis Wilson Wise
Three Rings for the Elven-kings: Trilogizing Tolkien in Print and Film
Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Notes and Letters
Hugo Dyson: An Update (Note)
David Bratman
Memories of Clyde Kilby (Note)
Mike Foster
A Note on a Name (Note)
Verlyn Flieger
Letter to the Editor
J. Aleksandr Wootton
Book Reviews
Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendour, and Transcendence in Middle-earth by Lisa Coutras
Phillip Irving Mitchell
The Fantastic of the Fin de Siècle. Eds. Irina Grubica and Zdenĕk Beran
Douglas A. Anderson
Laughter in Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Eds. Thomas Honegger and Maureen F. Mann
Janet Brennan Croft
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology by Dimitra Fimi
Glenn R. Gray
From Peterborough to Faëry: The Poetics and Mechanics of Secondary Worlds. Eds. Thomas Honegger and Dirk Vanderbeke
David Emerson
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon
Dennis Wilson Wise
Editor
- Janet Brennan Croft, Rutgers University
- 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
- Richard C. West, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Donna R. White, Arkansas Tech University
