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Mythlore 134 Volume 37, Issue 2
Spring/Summer 2019


Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Mythlore at Fifty
— Janet Brennan Croft

On the Shoulders of Gi(E)nts: The Joys of Bibliographic Scholarship and Fanzines in Tolkien Studies
— Robin Anne Reid

On the Shoulders of Humphrey Carpenter: Reconsidering Biographical Representation and Scholarly Perception of Edith Tolkien
— Nicole M. duPlessis

The Last Serialist: C.S. Lewis and J.W. Dunne
— Guy Inchbald

Saruman as ‘Sophist’ or Sophist Foil? Tolkien’s Wizards and the Ethics of Persuasion
— Chad Chisholm

Gunslinger Roland from Yeat’s Towers Came(?): A Little-Studied Influence on Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series
— Abigail L. Montgomery

“Auntie, What Ails Thee?”: The Parzival Question in Orphan Black
— Janet Brennan Croft


Notes and Letters

An Unsourced Poem in Lewis’s Great Divorce, Pierre H. Berube

Narnian Stars, Ruth Berman

In Memoriam: Nancy-Lou Patterson, Janet Brennan Croft


Review Essays

Navigating the Carte du Tendre in Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction by Marina Warner, Barbara Prescott

Inklings, a King, and an Unsurprising Prize: The Inklings and King Arthur, edited by Sørina Higgins, Jared Lobdell


Reviews

Tolkien, Self and Other: “This Queer Creature” by Jane Chance and Tolkien and Alterity, edited by Christopher Vaccaro and Yvette Kisor, Jason Fisher

The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Works of C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T.S. Eliot by Janice Brown, Jim Stockton

Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine by Joseph Cambell, Carl Badgley

“The Sweet and the Bitter”: Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings by Amy Ament-Raduege, Laura Lee Smith

Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones, by Marc DiPaolo, Kristine Larsen

The Great Tower of Elfland: The Mythopoeic Worldview of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G.K.
Chesterton, and George MacDonald, by Zachary A. Rhone, Felicia Jane Steele

C.S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction, by James Como, Zachary A. Rhone

Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story, by Stuart R. Kaplan et al., Emily E. Auger

Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and Other Airborne Females, by Serinity Young, Felicity Gilbert

Briefly Noted: The Place of the Lion and War in Heaven by Charles Williams, Janet Brennan Croft