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Volume 43, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 2025, #146) (2024)
Editorial Introduction
Articles
No Ragnarök, No Armageddon: Pagan and Christian interpretations of The Lord of the Rings
Matthew Thompson-Handell
Feasting at the Threshold: Eucharistic Eroticism and Homonationalism in Diane Duane's The Tale of the Five
Taylor Driggers
Pandemic Mythmaking: COVID-19 and Mythological Symbolism in Indian Folk Art
Ishani Anwesha Joshi and Sathyaraj Venkatesan
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Beowulf: Rowling’s Beowulfian Allusions, Analogues, and Inversions
Mark-Elliot Finley
The Bright Sword and its Sharpness: Swords, Symbolism, and Medievalism in The Lord of the Rings
Gavin S. Davis
Alan Garner’s Elidor: The “Anti-Narnian fantasy”?
Laura N. Van Dyke
Notes and Letters
"Better to Reign in Hell": Ambivalence and Orcs in the Lay of the Children of Húrin
Matthew Thompson-Handell
St. Jack’s Experiment House for Juvenile Delinquents: Responding to Aslan’s Breath by Matthew Dickerson
Gabriel C. Salter
Weaving Wikipedia’s Middle-earth Web
Ian F. Alexander
What Will We Do with the Christmas Pudding?: Joy Davidman, William Lindsay Gresham, and "Christmas in the Workhouse"
Gabriel C. Salter and Clark Sheldon
“Perilous and Fair” in “A Bleak, Barren Land”: A Feminist Responds to Dylan Lee Henderson’s Essay
Robin A. Reid
Book Reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Townend
Laura N. Van Dyke
Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth by Sam McBride
Phillip Fitzsimmons
Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald, annotated edition
Tiffany Brooke Martin
Mimetic Theory & Middle-Earth: Untangling Desire in Tolkien’s Legendarium by Matthew J. Distefano
Curtis Gruenler
Harry Potter and Resistance by Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
Douglas Charles Kane
Mapping a Sense of Humor: Narrative and Space in Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels by Daniel Lüthi
Susan Moore
Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works by Patrick Curry
N. Trevor Brierly
Briefly Noted
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
- Kris Swank, Signum University
- 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
- James Prothero, Independent Scholar
