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
