Recently added articles from Mythlore:
Editorial.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2009; Croft, Janet Brennan ... THIS IS THE TYPES OF ISSUE I PARTICULARLY ENJOY as an editor and a reader--an issue where articles lead from one to another along a pathway of related ideas, encouraging the reader to make connections and head off in new directions along the way. We start off with a fascinating ...
Perilous shores: the unfathomable supernaturalism of water in 19th-century Scottish folklore.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Harris, Jason Marc ... FROM THE SEAS TROUBLED BY DRAGONS, to the lochs haunted by kelpies and water horses, to shores and banks watched by fairies and glaistigs, the islands, coasts, and Highlands of Scotland present borderlands where the role of the supernatural in folk tales and legends articulates a sense of ...
Tolkiens's Sigurd & Gudrun: summary, sources, & analogs.(JRR Tolkien's 'The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun')(Table)
Sep 22, 2009; Berube, Pierre H. ... TOLKIEN'S VERSE IN SIGURD & GUDRUN IS INTENTIONALLY so condensed and so allusive that it is easy to miss the plot on a first reading. This table is intended to provide a convenient summary. It also indicates which major elements of the existing primary world legendarium Tolkien used for ...
Amanda McKittrick Ros and the Inklings.(Critical essay)(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; Gorman, Anita G. ... PICTURE THIS: WE ARE IN THE YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR II. The Inklings have been friends for a long time. J.R.R. Tolkien is no longer reading the manuscript of The Lord of the Rings to his mates. C. S. Lewis has also stopped reading his own work during the Inklings' Thursday night meetings ....
No sex in Narnia? How Hans Christian Andersen's "Snow Queen" problematizes C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Miller, Jennifer L. ... C. S. LEWIS'S THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA (1950-1956) are remembered by many adults as favorite books from their childhood. The excitement of finding a hidden world in a wardrobe, the possibility of being a king or queen in a fantasyland, the existence of fauns, dryads, and unicorns--all of ...
Innocence as a super-power: little girls on the Hero's Journey.(Dorothy, Lucy and Chihiro)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Emerson, David ... Introduction ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR PLOTS IN FANTASY FICTION IS THE QUEST. From the ancient tale of Gilgamesh, to European fairy tales like "Jack and the Beanstalk," to The Lord of the Rings and the modern genre it has spawned, the story of a hero (or heroes) setting out to ...
Naming the evil one: onomastic strategies in Tolkien and Rowling.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Croft, Janet Brennan ... WHAT IS A NAME? LINGUISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, GENEALOGISTS, AND LAWYERS will give different answers. Having a name can mean different things to psychologists, folklorists, etymologists, or anthropologists. A personal name is a nexus for many deeply important concepts and feelings about being a ...
Letters.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 22, 2009; Miller, Ryder W. ... THANK YOU FOR REVIEWING MY BOOK (From Narnia to A Space Odyssey: The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C. S. Lewis, reviewed in Mythlore 27: 3/4, #105/106, Spring/Summer 2009), but I am not sure Mythlore was the appropriate venue for a review. The book was not intended for a ...
Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Rateliff, John D. ... TALES BEFORE NARNIA: THE ROOTS OF MODERN FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. Ed. Douglas A. Anderson. New York: Del Rey, 2008. xi + 339 pp. Trade Paperback. $15. 00. ISBN 978-0-345-49890-8. FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF TALES BEFORE TOLKIEN [2003] (1)--an admirable collection which ...
The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Christopher, Joe R. ... THE MAGICIAN'S BOOK: A SKEPTIC'S ADVENTURES IN NARNIA. Laura Miller. New York: Little, Brown, 2008. Hardcover. viii+312pp. $25. 99. ISBN 978-0316-01763-3. LAURA MILLER'S BOOK IS A WELL-WRITTEN, EXTENDED "FAMILIAR ESSAY" in its discussion of Lewis's Narnia books, with many ...
Projecting Tolkien's Musical Worlds: A Study of Musical Affect in Howard Shore's Soundtrack to Lord of the Rings.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Fisher, Jason ... PROJECTING TOLKIEN'S MUSICAL WORLDS: A STUDY OF MUSICAL AFFECT IN HOWARD SHORE'S SOUNDTRACK TO LORD OF THE RINGS. By Matthew Young. Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, 2007. ISBN 978-3836424967. Softcover. 92pp. $54. 00. ROJECTING TOLKIEN'S MUSICAL WORLDS BEGAN AS Matthew ...
Esotericism, Art, and Imagination.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Auger, Emily E. ... ESOTERICISM, ART, AND IMAGINATION. Eds. Arthur Versluis, Lee Irwin, John Richards, and Melinda Weinstein. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2009. 336 pp. $29. 95. ISBN 978-0-87013-819-5. (Orders http://msupress.msu.edu/) "I've told you," he answered, "I told you at ...
The Annotated Wind in the Willows.(The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition / The Illustrators of the Wind in the Willows, 1908-2008)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Croft, Janet Brennan ... THE ANNOTATED WIND IN THE WILLOWS. By Kenneth Grahame; introduction by Brian Jacques; edited with a preface and notes by Annie Gauger. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009. 384 pages. 978-0-393-05774-4. $39. 95. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS: AN ANNOTATED EDITION. By Kenneth Grahame; edited ...
Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings' Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Rateliff, John D. ... TRUTHS BREATHED THROUGH SILVER: THE INKLINGS' MORAL AND MYTHOPOEIC LEGACY. Ed. Jonathan B. Himes, with Joe R. Christopher and Salwa Khoddam. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (1) 2008. xviii + 160 pp. Hardcover. $59. 99. ISBN (10) 1-84718-444-8; ISBN (13) 9781847184443. ...
Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; Croft, Janet Brennan ... TOLKIEN STUDIES: AN ANNUAL SCHOLARLY REVIEW. Volume VI. Edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D. C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2009. 363 p. ISSN 1547-3155. $60. 00 individuals, $120. 00 institutions. THE CONTINUED AND GROWING SUCCESS ...
