Mythlore
A scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of mythopoeic literature
A scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of mythopoeic literature
Mythlore 55 Volume 15, Issue 1 (purchase below)
Autumn 1988
Table of Contents
Articles
- Aldrich, Kevin. “The Sense of Time in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.”
- Anderson, Angelee Sailer. “Lord Dunsany: The Potency of Words and The Wonder of Things.”
- Matheson, Sue. “C.S. Lewis and the Lion: Primitivism and Archetype in the Chronicles of Narnia.”
- Thompson, Christine K. “Going North and West to Watch the Dragons Dance: Norse and Celtic Elements in Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Trilogy.”
- Hyde, Paul Nolan. “A Philologist at the North Pole: J.R.R. Tolkien and The Father Christmas Letters.”
- King, Don. “The Rhetorical Similarities of C.S. Lewis and Bertrand Russell.”
- Christopher, Joe. “J.R.R. Tolkien, Narnian Exile.”
- Harris, Mason. “The Psychology of Power in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Orwell’s 1984 and Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea.”
- Blackburn, William. “‘Dangerous as a Guide to Deeds’: Politics in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien.”
Poetry
- Williams, Donald T. “Sonnet XXXVII.”
- Reid, Mindi M. “Lionlight.”
Features
- GoodKnight, Glen. Editorial Opening.
- Kondratiev, Alexei. “Tales Newly Told.”
- Letters.
Reviews
- The Annotated Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.
- JACK: C.S. Lewis and His Times. George Sayer. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.
- The 1989 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar. Roger Garland. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.
- Exploration of a Drowned Landscape. Charles Thomas. Reviewed by Pat Reynolds.
- The Temple of Sulis at Bath. Barry Cunliffe and Peter Davenport. Reviewed by Pat Reynolds.
- The Princess and the Goblin. George MacDonald. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.
- George MacDonald: The Seeking Heart. Kathy Triggs. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.
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