Mythlore 149 Volume 45, Issue 1     (purchase below)

Fall/Winter 2026

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

The Rhetoric of the Road: The Romantic Journey as a Map of Myth, Memory, and Majesty
— Joe R. Christopher

With Axe, Knife, Sting, and Tooth: The Enduring Wounds of Gawain and Frodo
— Roderick E. Pratt

Dreaming of Bag End: The Hobbit and Medieval Dream-Poetry
— Samuel A. Masters

Mrs Pam the Mermaid Princess: Tolkien’s Domesticated Water Monster
— Jean E. Graham

“A Story Must be Told”: Narrative Engagement in The Lord of the Rings
— author

Oxford at War: “Leaf by Niggle” as a Wartime Work, Part 1
— Josh B. Long

The Path of Wisdom: Reassessing Tolkien’s Paremiology in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
— Luis J. Tosina Fernández

“Salvation Must be Communicated”: An Ecumenical Reading of The Place of the Lion
— Avery-Claire Galloway

The Engine of Innocence: Discovery and Invention of Eden in John Crowley’s Engine Summer
— Ian Berger

The Political Vitalities of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea
— Joseph Charles Ironside

Conservative Demons and Countercultural Creators: Hellish Society in the Dark or Modern Age of Comics
— Andrew T. Burt

“Making the Familiar Strange”: The Ecocentric Power of Climate Fantasy
— John Cook

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Notes and Letters

• In Memoriam: Gracia Fay Ellwood, Janet Brennan Croft
• Lee Speth’s Mythlore Column, “Cavalier Treatment” (1979-1986), Janet Brennan Croft
• Tolkien, Seta Teiji, and Kunikida Doppo: A Short Introduction, Adam Ellis, including “Tolkien Sensei’s Lingering Shadow: Seeking his Traces in a Berkshire Hamlet,” Seta Teiji, translated by Adam Ellis
• Barrel-Rides and She-Elves: Audience and Anticipation in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Trilogy, Janet Brennan Croft

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Reviews

• J.R.R. Tolkien and G.B. Smith: With Wind in our Ears edited by Guiseppe Pezzini — Mercury Natis
• From Soldier to Storyteller: Essays on World War Veterans Who Became Famous Children’s Authors edited by Kathleen Broome Williams and Hal H. Friedman — Kris Swank
• The Gospel of Gollum by Ivano Sassanelli — Gabriella Clarke
• Between Interpretation and Imagination: C.S. Lewis and the Bible by Leslie Baynes — Katherine Cooper Wyma
• The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien’s Demonized Creatures by Robert T. Tally Jr. — Gerry Canavan
• Science and Religion in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis: The Quest for the Best Mental Model of the Universe by Alister E. McGrath — Martina Juričková
• Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation by Guiseppe Pezzini — Katherine Sas
• A Diasporic Mythography: Myth, Legend and Memory in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora by P.M. Biswas — G. Connor Salter
• Tolkien’s Glee: A Reading of the Songs in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, by John R. Holmes — Glenn R. Gray
• Briefly Noted: Terry Pratchett by Andy Sawyer — Janet Brennan Croft

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