Table of Contents
J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Leaf by Niggle”: An Allegory in Transformation
—Marie Nelson
Phantastical Regress: The Return of Desire and Deed in Phantastes and The Pilgrim’s Regress
—Jeffrey Bilbro
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell? Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, and the Fantasy Tradition
—Marek Oziewicz and Daniel Hade
C.S. Lewis’s “The Meteorite” and the Importance of Context
—Joe R. Christopher
Fairy and Elves in Tolkien and Traditional Literature
—Helios de Rosario Martínez
“Dwarves are Not Heroes”: Antisemitism and the Dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Writing
—Rebecca Brackmann
Rethinking Shylock’s Tragedy: Radford’s Critique of Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice
—Frank P. Riga
Totemic Reflexes in Tolkien’s Middle-earth
—Yvette Kisor
The Voice of Saruman: Wizards and Rhetoric in The Two Towers
—Jay Ruud
The Shire Quest: The ‘Scouring of the Shire’ as the Narrative and Thematic Focus of The Lord of the Rings
—David M. Waito
Reviews
This issue we feature reviews of Where the Shadows Lie: A Jungian Interpretation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, by Pia Skogemann; Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story, by Evan I. Schwartz; Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman, edited by Don W. King; Collected Poems, by Mervyn Peake; C.S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy, by Sanford Schwartz; Death and Fantasy: Essays on Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and R.L. Stevenson, by William Gray; Stephen R. Donaldson and the Modern Epic Vision by Christine Barkley, and The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews, by Darrell Schweitzer.