Volume 37, Number 2 Issue 134, Spring, 50th Anniversary Issue (2019)
Issue 134, Spring, 50th Anniversary Issue
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
On the Shoulders of Gi(E)nts: The Joys of Bibliographic Scholarship and Fanzines in Tolkien Studies
Robin Anne Reid
On the Shoulders of Humphrey Carpenter: Reconsidering Biographical Representation and Scholarly Perception of Edith Tolkien
Nicole M. duPlessis
The Last Serialist: C.S. Lewis and J.W. Dunne
Guy W B Inchbald
Gunslinger Roland from Yeats’s Towers Came(?): A Little-Studied Influence on Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series
Abigail L. Montgomery
“Auntie, What Ails Thee?”: The Parzival Question in Orphan Black
Janet Brennan Croft
Notes
Mythlore at 50
Janet Brennan Croft
An Unsourced Poem in Lewis’s Great Divorce
Pierre H. Berube
Narnian Stars
Ruth Berman
In Memoriam: Nancy-Lou Patterson
Janet Brennan Croft
Book Reviews
Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction by Marina Warner
Barbara L. Prescott
The Lion in the Waste Lane: Fearsome Redemption in the Works of C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T.S. Eliot by Janice Brown
James Stockton
"The Sweet and the Bitter": Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings by Amy Amendt-Raduege
Laura Lee Smith
The Great Tower of Elfland: The Mythopoeic Worldview of J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald by Zachary A. Rhone, foreword by Colin Duriez
Felicia Jean Steele
C.S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction by James Como
Zachary A. Rhone
Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females by Serinity Young
Felicity Gilbert
The Place of the Lion and War in Heaven by Charles Williams
Janet Brennan Croft
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
- Christopher Vaccaro, University of Vermont
