Volume 40, Number 1 Fall/Winter 2021, #139 (2021)
Editorial Introduction
Articles
The Shape of Water in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Norbert Schürer
Mirrors to the Underworld: Reflective Portals between Life and Death in the Harry Potter Series
Trenton J. McNulty
The Conscience of Solomon Kane: Robert E. Howard’s Rhetorics of Motive, World, and Race
Gabriel Mamola
But Where Shall Wisdom be Found? The Lord of the Rings and the Wisdom Literature of the Hebrew Bible
Mattie E. Gustafson
“Taliessin in the Rose-Garden”: A Symbolic Analysis
Joseph Thompson
The Enigmatic Loss of Proto-Hobbitic
Thomas Honegger
Notes and Letters
Keystone or Cornerstone? A Rejoinder to Verlyn Flieger on the Alleged “Conflicting Sides” of Tolkien’s Singular Self
Donald T. Williams
A Holiday by the Sea: In Search of Cair Paravel
Reggie Weems
Review Essay
Book Reviews
Tolkien’s Modern Reading by Holly Ordway
Kris Swank
The Flight of the Wild Gander by Joseph Campbell
Phillip Fitzsimmons
God and the Gothic by Alison Milbank
Douglas A. Anderson
The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok, translated by Jackson Crawford
Phillip Fitzsimmons
Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures, edited by Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi
Nada Kujundžić
George MacDonald’s Children’s Fantasies and the Divine Imagination by Colin Manlove
Tiffany Brooke Martin
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
