Volume 44, Number 2 Number 148, Spring 2026 (2026)
Editorial Introduction
Articles
Pier’s Barn and Aslan’s Stable: Satire and Sublimity in Langland’s Piers Plowman and Lewis’s The Last Battle
Tiffany E. Schubert
What are C.S. Lewis's Eldila and Why Do They Matter?
Joseph Weigel
The Romantic Imagination of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and J.R.R. Tolkien
Mariana Rios Maldonado and Andoni Cossio
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Gethsemane: Christian Art and Tradition in the Passion of Albus Dumbledore
John Anthony Dunne
“The Silmaril was Bound Upon His Brow”: Elwing and Eärendil and the “Living Light” of Love
Douglas Charles Kane
Galadriel: A Source of Lore for the Silmarillion
Zachary Rhone
The Significance of Ioreth, Wise Woman of Gondor, in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Jane Beal PhD
From Maldon to Mordor: Hobbits and the Lord-Retainer Relationship in The Lord of the Rings
Samuel A. Masters
In Memoriam: Colin Duriez
Justin W. Wiggins
Notes
Signed, Unknown Friend: Hints of William Lindsay Gresham’s Associates in a Curious Letter
G. Connor Salter
Prometheus the Trickster: Prophecy, Power, and Deception
Chris Griglack
In Memoriam: James Como
Anne-Frédérique Mochel-Caballero
Book Reviews
A Real Taste for Fairy-stories by Verlyn Flieger
Douglas C. Kane
Aubusson Weaves Tolkien: The Woven Adventure
Nancy Martsch
Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Alistair J.P. Sims
Giovanni Carmine Costabile
Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity Through Magic, by Stefan Ekman
Phillip Fitzsimmons
Schools of Magic: Learning in Children’s and Young Adult Fantasy Fiction by Megan H. Suttie
Sara Landaverde
The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature by Giovanni Carmine Costabile
Katherine Cooper Wyma
Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature
Douglas A. Anderson
William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark by Timothy S. Murphy
Timothy R. Granger
The Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien: Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation by Robert J. Dobie
Hayden Bilbrey
Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda, edited by Anthony G. Cirilla and Vincent E. Rone
Bianca L. Beronio
J.R.R. Tolkien's Women of Middle-earth: Including Sir Peter Jackson's Women of Middle-earth by Chris Barclay
Diane Riggins
Briefly Noted
