Now Available Mythlore 139

Recently received from the Mythopoeic Society was Mythlore issue 139 for Fall/Winter 2021. The issue can be purchased directly at https://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-139.htm. The contents listed below are from the same site.

Mythlore 139 Volume 40, Issue 1 (Fall/Winter 2021)

Table of Contents

Editorial

— Janet Brennan Croft

All Worthy Things: The Personhood of Nature in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium

— Sofia Parrila

The Shape of Water in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

— Norbert Schürer

Mirrors to the Underworld: Reflective Portals between Life and Death in the Harry Potter Series

— Trenton J. McNulty

Lewis and Clarke in the Caves: Art and Platonic Worlds in Piranesi

— Julie M. Dugger

Just Reading A Spell for Chameleon: An Appreciation with Caveats, and an Elegy

— Dennis Wilson Wise

Responsibility and Critical Thinking as Markers of Adulthood in Two Coming-of-Age Fantasy Series: Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching Novels and Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimeus Trilogy

— Anna Köhler

The Conscience of Solomon Kane: Robert E. Howard’s Rhetorics of Motive, World, and Race

— Gabriel Mamola

But Where Shall Wisdom be Found? The Lord of the Rings and the Wisdom Literature of the Hebrew Bible

— Mattie E. Gustafson

“Taliessin in the Rose-Garden”: A Symbolic Analysis

— Joseph Thompson

The Enigmatic Loss of Proto-Hobbitic

— Thomas Honegger

How Tolkien Saved His Neck: A lusinghe Proposition to the Oxford Dante Society

— John R. Holmes

Notes and Letters

Keystone or Cornerstone? A Rejoinder to Verlyn Flieger on the Alleged “Conflicting Sides” of Tolkien’s Singular Self — Donald T. Williams

A Holiday by the Sea: In Search of Cair Paravel — Reggie Weems

Jane Austen’s Lady Susan as a Possible Source of Inspiration behind C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters — Song (Joseph) Cho

Review Essay

Women Tarot Artists Inspired by the Golden Dawn: Recent Publications — Emily E. Auger

Reviews

Tolkien’s Modern Reading by Holly Ordway — Kris Swank

The Flight of the Wild Gander by Joseph Campbell — Phillip Fitzsimmons

God and the Gothic by Alison Milbank — Douglas A. Anderson

The Saga of the Volsungs: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothrok, translated by Jackson Crawford — Phillip Fitzsimmons

Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens, edited by Anna Milon — Alana White

Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures, edited by Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi — Nada Kujundžić

George MacDonald’s Children’s Fantasies and the Divine Imagination by Colin Manlove — Tiffany Brooke Martin

The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot by Patrick Maille — Emily E. Auger

Terry Pratchett’s Ethical Worlds, edited by Kristin Noone and Emily Lavin Leverett — Felicity Gilbert

Briefly Noted:

Thanks for Typing, edited by Jukliana Dresvina, and In and Out of Bloomsbury by Martin Ferguson Smith — Janet Brennan Croft

Encyclopedia of Mythical Objects by Theresa Bane — John Zacharias

The Shared Witness of C.S. Lewis and Austin Farrer by Phillip Irving Mitchell — Landon Loftin