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Volume 41, Number 2 Spring/Summer 2023 (#142) (2022)

Editorial Introduction

Editorial
Janet Brennan Croft

Articles

Terry Pratchett’s Witches Novels and the Consensus Fantasy Universe: A Feminist Perspective
Clair J. Hutchings-Budd Ms

Blood on the Snow, Soot on the Carpet: Belief as Pedagogy in Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather
Michael A. Moir Jr.

The Unicorn Trade: Towards a Cultural History of the Mass-Market Unicorn
Timothy S. Miller

The felix culpa in Tolkien's Legendarium: A Catalyst for Character and Reader Transformation
Nathan C J Hood

The Stolen Gift: Tolkien and the Problem of Suicide
Martin Lockerd

Mythopoesis in Tennyson's Idylls of the King
Rebecca A. Umland

Wizards and Woods: The Environmental Ethics of Tolkien’s Istari
Kenton L. Sena and Philip J. Vogel

Gollum from Medieval Tragedy to Liberal Tragedy in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Masoud Tadayoni and Mohsen Hanif

Delving Too Greedily: Analyzing Prejudice Against Tolkien's Dwarves as Historical Bias
Mitchell T. Dennis and Kenton Sena

Notes

Sentience and Sapience in the One Ring: The Reality of Tolkien’s Master Ring
Larry L. Burriss

The One Ring of King Solomon
Giovanni Carmine Costabile

The Dragon and the Railway Station
Verlyn Flieger

Book Reviews

Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts by Jes Battis
Marisa Mills

George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles: Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantment by Timothy Larsen
James Hamby

Harry Potter and the Other; Race, Justice and Difference in the Wizarding World, edited by Sarah Park Dahlen and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, and Open at the Close: Literary Essays on Harry Potter, edited by Cecelia Koncharr Farr
Joseph R. Young

The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind by Jason M. Baxter
Josiah Peterson

Discovering Dune: Essays on Frank Herbert’s Epic Saga., edited by Dominic J. Nardi and N. Trevor Brierly
G. Connor Salter

Mythmaking across Boundaries, edited by Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem
Sarah Beach

The Lord of the Rings Tarot Deck and Guide by Casey Gilly and Tomas Hijo
Emily E. Auger

The Map of Wilderland: Ecocritical Reflections on Tolkien’s Myth of Wilderness by Amber Lehning
Maria K. Alberto

Primitive Mythology (The Masks of God, Volume 1) by Joseph Campbell
Phillip Fitzsimmons

Superman in Myth and Folklore by Daniel Peretti, and The Mythology of the Superhero by Andrew R. Bahlmann
David L. Emerson

Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory: Feminism and Retelling the Tale by Veronica L. Schanoes
John Rosegrant

The Leadership of C.S. Lewis: Ten Traits to Encourage Change and Growth by Crystal Hurd
Mark-Elliot Finley

The Gallant Edith Bratt: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Inspiration by Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays
María Fernández Portaencasa

Nancy-Lou Patterson Reviews Books by and About Dorothy L. Sayers, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Others by Nancy-Lou Patterson, edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft
David Bratman

The Transcendent Vision of Mythopoeic Fantasy by David S. Hogsette
Douglas A. Anderson

Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey by John Rosegrant
Timothy K. Lenz

Briefly Noted

Ithell Colquhuon Taro as Colour tarot deck and book by Ithell Colquhoun
Emily E. Auger

Editor

Janet Brennan Croft, University of Northern Iowa

Archivist

Phillip Fitzsimmons, Administrator of Mythlore and Society Archives, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Editorial Advisory Board

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