Mythlore 143 Volume 42, Issue 1
Fall/Winter 2023
Table of Contents
Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft
The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder of Frodo Baggins
— Bruce Leonard
“It is ‘About’ Nothing But Itself”: Tolkienian Theology Beyond the Domination of the Author
— Tom Emanuel
“Or Break It”: The Cost of Silmarils and Sworn Oaths
— Alexander M. Bruce
Through Fire and Water: The Exodus of the Gondothlim
— Ethan Danner
“A Bleak, Barren Land”: Women and Fertility in The Lord of the Rings
— Dylan L. Henderson
Otherworldly but not the Otherworld: Tolkien’s Adaptation of Medieval Faerie and Fairies into a Sub-creative Elvendom
— Elliot Thomas Collins
Negative Estrangement: Fantasy and Race in the Drow and Drizzt Do’Urden
— Steven Holmes
Mythos to Myth to Mythopoeia: A Cyclical Process
— Ashna Mary Jacobs and Nirmala Menon
Notes and Letters
“A Fearful Weapon” — Verlyn Flieger
The Sun, The Son, and the Silmarillion: Christopher Tolkien and the Copernican Revolution of Morgoth’s Ring — Kristine Larsen
On the Rings of Power: Thoughts Inspired by Larry Burris’s “Sentience and Sapience in the One Ring” — Nancy Martsch
Nine Tolkien Scholars Respond to Charles W. Mills’s “The Wretched of Middle-earth: An Orkish Manifesto” — Robin Anne Reid, Bianca L. Beronio, Robert Stuart, Robert T. Tally Jr., Tom Ue, Cait Coker, Cami Agan, Charlotte Krausz, Helen Young
To the Editor — Charles A. Huttar
The C.S. Lewis Correspondence Project — Bruce R. Johnson
In Memoriam: Mike Foster — Janet Brennan Croft
Reviews
Inkling, Historian, Soldier, And Brother: A Life Of Warren Hamilton Lewis by Don W. King — David Bratman
“Uncle Curro”: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Spanish Connection by José Manuel Ferrández Bru — Nicole M. duPlessis
C.S. Lewis for Beginners by Louis Markos — Wendell Wagner
Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile, edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel — G. Connor Salter
Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth by Austin M. Freeman — Alex (Oleksiy) Ostaltsev
The Lion’s Country: C.S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real by Charlie W. Starr — Mark-Elliot Finley
How to Misunderstand Tolkien: The Critics and the Fantasy Master by Bruno Bacelli — Nancy Martsch
Death in Supernatural: Critical Essays, edited by Amanda Taylor and Susan Nylander — Martina G. Wise
Adapting Tolkien: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar 2020, edited by Will Sherwood — Alana White
East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C.S. Lewis by Warwick Ball — Philip Irving Mitchell
Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien, edited by Nuno Simões Rodrigues, Martin Simonson, and Angélica Varandas — Nancy Martsch
Sunbeams and Bottles: The Theology, Thought and Reading of C.S. Lewis by James Prothero — Suzanne Bray
The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien, edited by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine — Cait Coker
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child’s Moral Imagination, Second Edition, by Vigen Guroian — Sarah O’Dell
Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Woood: A Critical Companion by Paul Kincaid — Glenn R. Gray
After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, by Michael Ward — Jeremy M. Rios
Briefly Noted:
The Fairy Tale World, edited by Andrew Teverson — Janet Brennan Croft
