Mythlore for Fall/Winter 2022

The Fall/Winter 2022 issue of Mythlore is now available. I've provided the full content below. Ordering information can be found on the Mythopoeic Society's website at this link.

Mythlore 141 Volume 41, Issue 1
Fall/Winter 2022

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Notes of an Inklings Scholar: Musings on Myth and History, Promises and Secrecy, Ethical Reviewing, and the Limits of Authorial Intent
— David Bratman

David Lindsay’s The Violet Apple
— Eric Wills

History in the Margins: Epigraphs and Negative Space in Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Apprentice
— Matthew Oliver

Echoing Ecopoetics: Fantasy Literature’s Background Sounds
— Catherine Olver

“Read this Book, and You Will Find All the Grand and Marvelous Things to be Found”: A Song of Ice and Fire and Medieval Travelogues
— Elisabeth Brander

Haunted Manikins and the Hero(es) Within: The Modern Romantic Hero as the Divinely Inspired Person Inside the Personality
— Mikaela von Kursell

“Delight in Horror”: Charles Williams and Russell Kirk on Hell and the Supernatural
— Camilo Peralta

Tellers of Dark Fairy Tales: Common Themes in the Works of Terence Fisher and C.S. Lewis
— G. Connor Salter

“What Happened to Battles are Ugly Affairs?”: Fighting Girls in the Films The Chronicles of Narnia, Chapters 1, 2, and 3
— Anne-Frédérique Mochel-Caballero

“The Evil Side of Heroic Life”: Monsters and Heroes in Beowulf and The Hobbit
— Catherine Hall

Goddess and Mortal: The Celtic and the French Morgan Le Fay in Tolkien’s Silmarillion
— Clare Moore

“Well, I’m Back”: Samwise Gamgee and the Future of Tolkien’s Literary Pastoral
— MG Prezioso

Notes

The Nurse of Elfland: Lizzie Endicott and C.S. Lewis — Reggie Weems
What Sam Said — David Bratman

Reviews

Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth by Robert Stuart — Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology by Taylor Driggers — C. Palmer-Patel
Friendship in The Lord of the Rings by Cristina Casagrande — Mark A. Brians II
Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-Inherence by Paul S. Fiddes — Tiffany Brooke Martin
The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones — Susan M. Moore
Dante’s Dream: A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach by Gwenyth E. Hood — Liam Butchart
The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination by Phillip Ball — Janet Brennan Croft
Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord Of The Rings by Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann — Sharon L. Bolding
Two Sagas of Mythical Heroes: Hervor and Heidrek and Hrolf Kraki and His Companions translated and edited by Jackson Crawford, and Norse Mythology by Jackson Crawford — Phillip Fitzsimmons

Briefly Noted:

Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero by Roy Schwartz — G. Connor Salter
Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities by Adrienne Mayor — Janet Brennan Croft

Out Now - Mythlore 140

Mythlore 140 Volume 40, Issue 2

Spring/Summer 2022

source: https://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-140.htm.

Information on purchasing this issue appears on the Mythopoeic Society website. Click the link above for details. 

    

Table of Contents

Editorial

— Janet Brennan Croft

“One Aims at the Officers First”: Reassessing the Relationship of C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot

— Ben Reinhard

Being Psyche: The Jungian Soul in Glome

— Kelly Webber

Who is Merlin? A Closer Look at the Character in Charles Williams’s Taliessin Poetry

— Joseph Thompson

The Wheel of Power in HBO’s Game of Thrones

— Inbar Shaham

Sterner Stuff: Sansa Stark and the System of Gothic Fantasy

— Joseph Rex Young

A Lost Tale, A Found Influence: Earendel and Tinúviel

— Verlyn Flieger

Soup, Bones, and Shakespeare: Literary Authorship and Allusion in Middle-earth

— Owen Dugan and James Krasner

Tolkien and Bakhtin: Symphony of Time in The Lord of the Rings

— Olesky (Alex) Ostaltsev

Seeing Double: Tolkien and the Indo-European Divine Twins

— Kristine Larsen

Círdan the Shipwright: Tolkien’s Bodhisattva Who Brings Us to the Other Shore

— Douglas Charles Kane

Notes and Letters

A Note on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Daoist Interests — Robert Steed

The Tao Masters Who Walk Away from Omelas — Sabina Schrynemakers

A Queer Atheist Feminist Autist Responds to Donald Williams’s “Keystone or Cornerstone? A Rejoinder to Verlyn Flieger on the Alleged ‘Conflicting Sides’ of Tolkien’s Singular Self” — Robin A. Reid

Reviews

Abolishing Man in Other Worlds by Courtney Petrucci, Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide by Christiana Hale, and A Compass for Deep Heaven edited by Diana Pavlac Glyer and Julianne Johnson — Josiah Peterson

No Ordinary People: 21 Friendships of C.S. Lewis by Joel D. Heck — James Stockton

The Undiscovered C.S. Lewis edited by Bruce R. Johnson — Melody Green

Correspondence: 1927-1987 by Joseph Campbell — Phillip Fitzsimmons

Pamela Colman Smith: Tarot Artist by Dawn C. Robinson, and Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Feminist, and Mystic by Elizabeth Foley O’Connor — Emily E. Auger

Dorothy L. Sayers, A Biography by Colin Duriez, and Dorothy and Jack by Gina Dalfonzo — G. Connor Salter

Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature by Lykke Guanio-Uluru — Phillip Fitzsimmons

Tolkien and the Sea: Proceedings edited by Richard Cranshaw and Shaun Gunner — Kris Swank

Pagan Saints in Middle-earth by Claudio A. Testi — Toni Thibodeaux

Middle-earth, or There and Back Again by Łukasz Neubauer — Giovanni Costabile

A Sense of Tales Untold by Peter Grybauskas — Robert T. Tally Jr.

Tolkien and the Classical World edited by Hamish Williams — Larry Swain

Musical Scores and the Eternal Present by Chiara Bertoglio — John Wm. Houghton

Leadership in Middle-earth by Michael J. Urick — Alana White

Mythcon 51 Update and New CFP (5/15/21; virtual event for Summer 2021)

 Further news from the Mythopoeic Society: http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm

Mythcon 51

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Mythcon 51
A VIRTUAL “HALFLING” MYTHCON

Moving Online - Dates To Be Determined

   

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ANNOUNCEMENT

Due to ongoing health concerns and the realization that we cannot now plan something that may violate future New Mexico state health and safety regulations, whatever they are in July-August of this year, the Council of Stewards has decided to postpone the next in-person Mythcon until summer of 2022; the date will be July 29-August 1, 2022. Our venue and Guests of Honor have all agreed to this change and the conference theme will remain the same.

Because the costs associated with a virtual online event are less than the costs of an in person event, if you are already a member of Mythcon 51, your membership will automatically "roll over" to next year (Mythcon 52 in 2022) but if you cannot attend next year, please contact mythcon@mythsoc.org and request a refund of your Mythcon 51 membership. For those who paid the non-member prices, your membership in the Mythopoeic Society associated with joining the conference will be extended by a year (again!). Thank you for understanding.

The virtual option will be very different from our usual Mythcons, but what we miss out on we hope to make up for in new and different ways, and we’ll see everyone once it’s safe to do so. On some level this is a chance to get back to our Mythopoeic Society roots and gather with friends (if virtually!) to just discuss what we love. Best of all, the cost of registration will be steeply reduced, though prices have not been set yet.

Check back for confirmed details in Mythprint #397 as well as Mythlore #138, and as always on our website, www.mythcon.org. Thank you for understanding!

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Call for Papers (subject to change)

Papers of the traditional Mythopoeic variety are still welcome, though we are looking forward to trying out a new panel model that we are calling Panel Discussions (see below).

Time slots: Individual long papers may still have hour-long time slots but are now encouraged to be no more than 30 minutes for the paper and 15 minutes for discussion; Individual short papers about 15 minutes for the paper and 10 minutes for discussion; Panels are now 60 minutes, about 30 minutes for the panel and 20 minutes for discussion. For traditional paper and panel proposals:

Email papers abstracts of 200-500 words to:
Cami Agan (Papers Coordinator),
cami.agan@oc.edu

Email panels abstracts of 50-150 words to:
Leslie Donovan (Panels Coordinator),
leslie.a.donovan@gmail.com

Presenters who have already submitted have the option of presenting at Mythcon 51 virtually or being automatically accepted into the Mythcon 52 program. All presenters must register for the conference at which they wish to present.

Eligible presenters should see details on our Alexei Kondratiev student paper award at: http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/alexei.htm.

Discussion Panel and Alternative Programming Options
Though we have not formally revised the call for papers just yet, we are excited to experiment with different presentation models that may work better over an online platform, privileging panels of short papers or group discussion panels.

Have a topic in mind you want to discuss, but pandemic brain has got you down so you don’t want to write a paper about it? Revive the roots of the Society by proposing to Moderate a Discussion Panel for Mythcon 51—virtually! Moderators would need to come prepared with a mythopoeic discussion topic, some opening remarks, some questions for the attendees, and plan to facilitate discussion.

Want to submit a Discussion Panel, or have an idea for Alternative Virtual Mythcon programming?
Email 200-500 word proposals to:
Megan Abrahamson
mythprint@mythsoc.org

The new deadline for submissions is May 15, 2021. Please check in on Facebook, Twitter, or www.mythcon.org for an updated and complete Call For Papers as well as other updates about the now-virtual conference. 

Mythcon 52 Update (Summer 2022)

 The latest from the Mythopoeic Society: http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm

Mythcon 52

New Dates!    July 29 - August 1, 2022

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Mythcon 52
The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien

Albuquerque, New Mexico
July 29 - August 1, 2022

  

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ANNOUNCEMENT

Due to ongoing health concerns and the realization that we cannot now plan something that may violate future New Mexico state health and safety regulations, whatever they are in July-August of this year, the Council of Stewards has decided to postpone the next in-person Mythcon until summer of 2022; the date will be July 29-August 1, 2022. Our venue and Guests of Honor have all agreed to this change and the conference theme will remain the same.

Your membership will automatically "roll over" to next year but if you cannot attend next year, please contact mythcon@mythsoc.org and request a refund of your Mythcon 51 membership. For those who paid the non-member prices, your membership in the Mythopoeic Society associated with joining the conference will be extended by a year (again!). Thank you for understanding.

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Theme: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien

Mythcon 52’s theme provides multiple opportunities to explore the Other in fantasy and mythopoeic literature. Tolkien spoke in “On Fairy-stories” of “the desire to visit, free as a fish, the deep sea; or the longing for the noiseless, gracious, economical flight of a bird.” We invite discussion about the types of fantasy that are more likely to put us into contact with the alien, such as time portal fantasy and space travel fantasy. In addition to Inklings, some writers who deal particularly well with the truly alien who might be explored include Lovecraft, Gaiman, Le Guin, Tepper, and others. Other topics that might be fruitfully explored are: depictions of the alien Other in film and television (Contact, Arrival, HBO’s Watchmen, etc.); developing constructed languages that are truly different from those of Earth-based humans; fantastical Others in indigenous myths (such as Coyote and Spider Woman from Native American mythology); and American folklore about the alien (flying saucers, alien abduction, Area 51, Roswell).

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Guests of Honor

Rivera Sun - Author Guest of Honor

Rivera Sun is a change-maker, a cultural creative, a protest novelist, and an advocate for nonviolence and social justice. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, and other novels. Her young adult fantasy series, the Ari Ara Series, has been widely acclaimed by teachers, parents, and peace activists for its blending of fantasy and adventure with social justice issues. Going beyond dragon-slayers and sword-swingers, heroes and sheroes in Ari Ara’s world stop wars and wage peace. They use active nonviolence to make powerful change. In all her works, Rivera Sun advocates that if we want to build a culture of peace, we have to tell new stories that still appreciate, but go beyond the old myths, epics, and legends that rehash outdated war and violence narratives. The Way Between, the first book in the Ari Ara Series, has been read by numerous groups of all ages, while the second book in the series, The Lost Heir, is the winner of the 2019 Nautilus Award Silver Medal in Middle Grade Fiction.

Rivera Sun’s essays have been published in hundreds of journals nationwide. She is a frequent speaker and presenter at schools, colleges and universities, where The Dandelion Insurrection has been taught in literature and political science courses. Rivera Sun is also the editor of Nonviolence News, an activist, and a trainer in making change with nonviolence. Her essays and writings are syndicated by Peace Voice and have appeared in journals nationwide. She lives in an Earthship house in New Mexico.

David Bratman - Scholar Guest of Honor

David Bratman is has been reading Tolkien for over fifty years, and has been writing Tolkien scholarship for nearly as long. His earliest contribution to the field was the first-ever published Tale of Years for the First Age, right after The Silmarillion was published. Since then he’s published articles with titles like “Top Ten Rejected Plot Twists from The Lord of the Rings,” “Hobbit Names Aren’t from Kentucky,” and “Liquid Tolkien” (on Tolkien and music). He’s been co-editor of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review since 2013, and has written or edited its annual “Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies” since 2004. David edited The Masques of Amen House by Charles Williams and contributed the bio-bibliographical appendix on the Inklings to Diana Pavlac Glyer’s The Company They Keep. He has also written on C.S. Lewis, Ursula Le Guin, Mervyn Peake, Neil Gaiman, and others. For the Mythopoeic Society he was editor of the monthly bulletin Mythprint for fifteen years, and has worked on many Mythopoeic Conferences, including serving twice as chair. He’s a retired academic librarian and an active classical music reviewer who lives with his wife, Berni (a soprano and violinist), and two cats in a house they call Minnipin Cottage.

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Location

Please plan to join us at the Ramada Plaza Hotel by Wyndham in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Mythcon 52. Albuquerque is a wonderful “destination city” where Mythcon has been held only once before in 2011 (Mythcon 42) and is well worth the return.

CFP Ursula K. Le Guin Spec. Issue of Mythlore (updated 12/20/2020)

I couldn't find an updated text, but Mythlore has recently revised its deadline for a special issue commemorating the life and works of Ursula K. Le Guin.

A PDF version of the revised call can be accessed here.


This was the last version of the call:
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/02/12/deadline-extended-honoring-ursula-k-le-guin-citizen-of-mondrath


DEADLINE EXTENDED: Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin: Citizen of Mondrath


deadline for submissions:
May 25, 2020


full name / name of organization:
Mythlore, a journal of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature


contact email:
mythlore@mythsoc.org

Call for Papers for Special Issue of Mythlore, Fall 2020:

Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin: Citizen of Mondrath

Guest Edited by Melanie A. Rawls



Proposal deadline March 25, Draft deadline June 25, Final paper deadline August 25

PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED to MAY 25



Mythlore, a journal dedicated to the genres of myth and fantasy (particularly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), invites article submissions for a special issue focused on Ursula K. Le Guin, grandmaster of mythopoeic fantasy.

We welcome essays on the following topics: Le Guin’s Earthsea series, the three novels of the “Annals of the Western Shore,” namely Gifts, Voices, and Powers, the young adult novel The Beginning Place, and her fantasy short stories.

Le Guin’s masterwork Always Coming Home has a special place in Mythopoeic Society history, as it was the topic of a panel when she was Guest of Honor at Mythcon 19 in 1988. Though this work is not considered strictly fantasy, it clearly has mythopoeic elements, and we welcome articles on this text

Other potential topics for articles include:

• Good and evil in Le Guin’s worlds
• Gender
• Power and its uses and abuses
• Jungian and Taoist elements in Le Guin’s writing

We also call for articles on her critical essays that examine mythopoeic writing and any of her poetry or non-fantasy writing that has mythopoeic themes and imagery. We welcome articles that explore Le Guin’s influence on the fantasy genre as a whole and on other writers, as well as articles exploring how other writers influenced Le Guin (Le Guin claimed Philip K. Dick and Walter M. Miller as influences in an interview).



To get an idea of the range of topics covered in Mythlore, visit the online archive at https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/

and consult the electronic index, which can be downloaded free at http://www.mythsoc.org/press/mythlore-index-plus.htm. Submission guidelines can be found at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-submissions.htm.

Mythcon 51 Updates and New CFP (5/15/2021; Albuquerque 7/31-8/2/2021)

The Mythopoeic Society has announced the postponement of Mythcon 51 from this summer to next summer. The updated call is pasted below. Full details at the Society's dedicated site: http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm.



New Dates! July 30 - August 2, 2021

Mythcon 51
The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien
Albuquerque, New Mexico
July 30 - August 2, 2021

Call for Papers Download PDF of Call for Papers here


CONFERENCE THEME: THE MYTHIC, THE FANTASTIC, AND THE ALIEN This year’s Mythcon theme provides multiple opportunities to explore the Other in fantasy and mythopoeic literature. Tolkien spoke in “On Fairy-stories” of “the desire to visit, free as a fish, the deep sea; or the longing for the noiseless, gracious, economical flight of a bird.” We invite discussion about the types of fantasy that are more likely to put us into contact with the alien, such as time portal fantasy and space travel fantasy. In addition to Inklings, some writers who deal particularly well with the truly alien who might be explored include Lovecraft, Gaiman, Le Guin, Tepper, and others. Other topics that might be fruitfully explored are: 

• depictions of the alien Other in film and television (Contact, Arrival, HBO’s Watchmen, etc.);
•  developing constructed languages that are truly different from those of Earth-based humans;
•  fantastical Others in indigenous myths (such as Coyote and Spider Woman from Native American mythology);
• and American folklore about the alien (flying saucers, alien abduction, Area 51, Roswell).

Papers on our conference theme and the works and interests of our guests of honor are especially welcome, although all subjects will be considered.
GUESTS OF HONOR Papers on the works and interests of our guests of honor are also especially welcome:

Author Guest of Honor Rivera Sun is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, and other novels. Her young adult fantasy series, the Ari Ara Series, has been widely acclaimed by teachers, parents, and peace activists for its blending of fantasy and adventure with social justice issues. The Way Between, the first book in the Ari Ara Series, has been read by numerous groups of all ages, while the second book in the series, The Lost Heir, has been nominated for the 2020 Dayton Peace Literature Prize. 

Scholar Guest of Honor David Bratman is has been reading Tolkien for over fifty years, and has been writing Tolkien scholarship for nearly as long. His earliest contribution to the field was the first-ever published Tale of Years for the First Age, right after The Silmarillion was published. Since then he has published articles with titles like “Top Ten Rejected Plot Twists from The Lord of the Rings,” “Hobbit Names Aren’t from Kentucky,” and “Liquid Tolkien” (on Tolkien and music). He’s been co-editor of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review since 2013, and has written or edited its annual “Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies” since 2004. David edited The Masques of Amen House by Charles Williams and contributed the bio-bibliographical appendix on the Inklings to Diana Pavlac Glyer’s The Company They Keep. He has also written on C.S. Lewis, Ursula Le Guin, Mervyn Peake, Neil Gaiman, and others.

PAPERS and PANELS PROPOSALS Email papers abstracts of 200-500 words to this year’s Paper Coordinator:
Cami Agan
cami.agan@oc.edu
by May 15, 2021.

Email panels abstracts of 50-150 words to Panels Coordinator:
Leslie Donovan
leslie.a.donovan@gmail.com
by May 15, 2021.

Include AV requests and the projected time needed for your presentation. We will make every effort to accommodate A/V requests, but such equipment is limited and cannot be guaranteed. Available time slots: Individual long papers are one hour, roughly 45 minutes for the paper with 15 minutes for discussion; Individual short papers or 1/2 hour, roughly 20 minutes for the paper with 10 minutes for discussion; Panels are 90 minutes, roughly 60 minutes for the panel with 30 minutes for discussion.
You will be notified after the deadline if your paper proposal has been accepted. See our Alexei Kondratiev Award for details on our student paper award!

All presenters must register for the full conference; please see the Mythcon 51 Registration page for information and rates.

Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for presentation at the conference to Mythlore, the refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society (www.mythlore.org). All papers should conform to the 8th edition of the MLA Style Manual. Presenters who are full-time undergraduate or graduate students are encouraged to submit their completed conference papers in advance for consideration for the Alexei Kondratiev Student Paper Award. Please see www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/alexei.htm for more information.


ABOUT THE MYTHOPOEIC SOCIETY The Mythopoeic Society is an international literary and educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and mythopoeic literature. We believe the study of these writers can lead to greater understanding and appreciation of the literary, philosophical, and spiritual traditions which underlie their works, and can engender an interest in the study of myth, legend, and the genre of fantasy. Find out about the Society s activities at: www.mythsoc.org

CFP Mythcon 51 (5/15/2020; Albuquerque 7/31-8/3/2020)

Mythcon 51

The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien

http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm

http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mc51-CFP.htm
 
Albuquerque, New Mexico
July 31 - August 3, 2020

Location

Please join us at the Ramada Plaza Hotel by Wyndham in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Mythcon 51. Albuquerque is a wonderful “destination city” where Mythcon has been held only once before in 2011 (Mythcon 42) and is well worth the return.

Call for Papers

Download PDF of Call for Papers here

CONFERENCE THEME: THE MYTHIC, THE FANTASTIC, AND THE ALIEN

This year’s Mythcon theme provides multiple opportunities to explore the Other in fantasy and mythopoeic literature. Tolkien spoke in “On Fairy-stories” of “the desire to visit, free as a fish, the deep sea; or the longing for the noiseless, gracious, economical flight of a bird.” We invite discussion about the types of fantasy that are more likely to put us into contact with the alien, such as time portal fantasy and space travel fantasy. In addition to Inklings, some writers who deal particularly well with the truly alien who might be explored include Lovecraft, Gaiman, Le Guin, Tepper, and others. Other topics that might be fruitfully explored are:

  — depictions of the alien Other in film and television (Contact, Arrival, HBO’s Watchmen, etc.);
  — developing constructed languages that are truly different from those of Earth-based humans;
  — fantastical Others in indigenous myths (such as Coyote and Spider Woman from Native American mythology);
  — and American folklore about the alien (flying saucers, alien abduction, Area 51, Roswell).

Papers on our conference theme and the works and interests of our guests of honor are especially welcome, although all subjects will be considered. 
 

GUESTS OF HONOR

Papers on the works and interests of our guests of honor are also especially welcome:

• Author Guest of Honor Rivera Sun is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Roots of Resistance, and other novels. Her young adult fantasy series, the Ari Ara Series, has been widely acclaimed by teachers, parents, and peace activists for its blending of fantasy and adventure with social justice issues. The Way Between, the first book in the Ari Ara Series, has been read by numerous groups of all ages, while the second book in the series, The Lost Heir, has been nominated for the 2020 Dayton Peace Literature Prize. 

 

• Scholar Guest of Honor David Bratman is has been reading Tolkien for over fifty years, and has been writing Tolkien scholarship for nearly as long. His earliest contribution to the field was the first-ever published Tale of Years for the First Age, right after The Silmarillion was published. Since then he has published articles with titles like “Top Ten Rejected Plot Twists from The Lord of the Rings,” “Hobbit Names Aren’t from Kentucky,” and “Liquid Tolkien” (on Tolkien and music). He’s been co-editor of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review since 2013, and has written or edited its annual “Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies” since 2004. David edited The Masques of Amen House by Charles Williams and contributed the bio-bibliographical appendix on the Inklings to Diana Pavlac Glyer’s The Company They Keep. He has also written on C.S. Lewis, Ursula Le Guin, Mervyn Peake, Neil Gaiman, and others.

PAPERS and PANELS PROPOSALS

Email papers abstracts of 200-500 words to this year’s Paper Coordinator:
Cami Agan
cami.agan@oc.edu
by May 15, 2020.

Email panels abstracts of 50-150 words to Panels Coordinator:
Leslie Donovan
leslie.a.donovan@gmail.com
by May 15, 2020.

Include AV requests and the projected time needed for your presentation. We will make every effort to accommodate A/V requests, but such equipment is limited and cannot be guaranteed. Available time slots: Individual long papers are one hour, roughly 45 minutes for the paper with 15 minutes for discussion; Individual short papers or 1/2 hour, roughly 20 minutes for the paper with 10 minutes for discussion; Panels are 90 minutes, roughly 60 minutes for the panel with 30 minutes for discussion.
You will be notified after the deadline if your paper proposal has been accepted. See our Alexei Kondratiev Award for details on our student paper award!

All presenters must register for the full conference; please see the Mythcon 51 Registration page for information and rates.

Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for presentation at the conference to Mythlore, the refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society (www.mythlore.org). All papers should conform to the 8th edition of the MLA Style Manual. Presenters who are full-time undergraduate or graduate students are encouraged to submit their completed conference papers in advance for consideration for the Alexei Kondratiev Student Paper Award. Please see www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/alexei.htm for more information.

ABOUT THE MYTHOPOEIC SOCIETY

The Mythopoeic Society is an international literary and educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and mythopoeic literature. We believe the study of these writers can lead to greater understanding and appreciation of the literary, philosophical, and spiritual traditions which underlie their works, and can engender an interest in the study of myth, legend, and the genre of fantasy. Find out about the Society s activities at: www.mythsoc.org

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Mythlore Fall/Winter 2019

Here are the details on the latest issue of Mythlore. The issue can be purchased from the Mythopoeic Society at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-135.htm. The content is also accessible as part of the SWOSU Digital Commons at https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol38/iss1/.


Mythlore 135 Volume 38, Issue 1
Fall/Winter 2019

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

The Arch and the Keystone
— Verlyn Flieger

An Unexpected Poet: The Creative Works of Dr. Robert E. Havard
— Sarah O’Dell

Notes and Letters

In Memoriam: Jared Lobdell, Richard C. West

Innocence in Lewis’s Perelandra and Twain’s King Arthur’s Court, S. Dorman

Extreme Minimalism in The Lord of the Rings, Pierre H. Berube

Mirkwood, John V. Orth

Reviews

Doors In: The Fairy Tale World of George MacDonald, by Rolland Hein, Joe Young

The Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society, Janet Brennan Croft

Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore: From Medieval Times to the Present Day, by Juliette Wood, Tiffany Brooke Martin

H.P. Lovecraft: Selected Works, Critical Perspectives and Interviews on His Influence, edited by Leverett Butts, Perry Neil Harrison

The Echo of Odin: Norse Mythology and Human Consciousness, by Edward W.I. Smith, Emily E. Auger

The Fame of C.S. Lewis: A Controversialist’s Reception in Britain and America, by Stephanie L. Derrick, Chad Chisholm

Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, by Adrienne Mayor, Emily E. Auger


Special Issue Contents:

Mythopoeic Children’s Literature
Introduction
— Donna White

The Child’s Voyage and the Immram Tradition in Lewis, Tolkien, and Pullman
— Kris Swank

Doubles at Work: The Three Rovers in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Roverandom
— Jennifer Marchant

The Talking Beasts as Adam and Eve: Lewis and the Complexity of “Dominion”
— Jean E. Graham

Pyramids in America: Rewriting the “Egypt of the West” in Rick Riordan’s The Kane Chronicles Series
— Heather L. Cyr

A Sense of Darker Perspective: How the Marauders Convey Tolkien’s “Impression of Depth” in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
— Katherine Sas

Dobby the Robot: The Science Fiction in Harry Potter
— Emily Strand

“What Man am I?” The Hero’s Journey, the Beginning of Individuation, and Taran Wanderer
— Liam Butchart

Blowing the Morte: The Rites of Manhood in William Rayner’s Stag Boy
— Christophe Van Eecke

Death, Hope, and Wholeness in Owen Barfield’s Fairy Tales
— Tiffany Brooke Martin

Notes
Mythology in Children’s Animation, David L. Emerson

Reviews
War, Myths, and Fairy Tales, edited by Sara Buttsworth and Maartje Abbenhuis, Felicia Jean Steele

Shapers of American Childhood: Essays on Visionaries from L. Frank Baum to Dr. Spock to J.K. Rowling, edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West, David Lenander

Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction: A Cognitive Reading, by Marek Oziewicz, Zachary Dilbeck

Marvelous Geometry: Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale, by Jessica Tiffin, Felicia Jean Steele

The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid”, by Lucy Fraser, Bianca Beronio

Girl Warriors: Feminist Revisions of the Hero’s Quest in Contemporary Popular Culture, by Svenja Hohenstein, Maria Alberto

The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio: Exploring Their Parallel Worlds, by Laura Tosi with Peter Hunt, Bianca Beronio

Mythlore for Spring/Summer 2019 Now Available

The latest number of Mythlore has arrived. Full contents follow. The issue may be purchased direct at: http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-134.htm.



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

Mythlore Fall/Winter 2018

Details on the latest number of Mythlore. Full ordering information at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-133.htm.


Mythlore 133 Volume 37, Issue 1
Fall/Winter 2018


Table of Contents Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

The Process of Salvation in Pearl and The Great Divorce
— Amber Dunai

Paradise Retold: Lewis’s Reimagining of Milton, Eden, and Eve
— Benita Huffman Muth

“No Pagan Ever Loved His God”: Tolkien, Thompson, and the Beautification of the Gods
— Megan Fontenot

Turning Back the Tides: The Anglo-Saxon Vice of Ofermod in Tolkien’s Fall of Arthur
— Colin J. Cutler

Nazis in the Shire: Tolkien and Satire
— Jerome Donnelly

Tolkien’s Gimpy Heroes
— Victoria Holtz Wodzak

A Cloud of Witnesses: External Mediation in Frodo’s Journey to Rivendell and Beyond
— Carl P. Olson

A Modern Fairy-story: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Seen through the Prism of Tolkien’s Classic Essay
— Douglas Charles Kane

The Romance and the Real: A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance
— Jordana Long

Neil Gaiman’s American Gods: A Postmodern Epic for America
— Susan Gorman

Paul Edwin Zimmer’s Alliterative Style: A Metrical Legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Poul Anderson
— Dennis Wilson Wise


Notes and Letters

• Back to the Beginning: Rudyard Kipling’s Story of the Invention of Writing, Marie Nelson
• On Julian Eilmann’s J.R.R. Tolkien: Romanticist and Poet, Reviewed by Kris Swank in Mythlore #132, Nancy Martsch
• Bilingual Puns in The Lord of the Rings, Pierre H. Berube
• Reviews
• Phantastes: Annotated Edition by George MacDonald, edited by John Pennington and Roderick McGillis, Tiffany Brooke Martin
• The Faun’s Bookshelf: C.S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters by Charlie H. Starr, Louis Markos
• Christian Mythmakers: C.S. Lewis. Madeleine L’Engle, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S Lewis, et al. (2nd ed.) by Rolland Hein, Sharon L. Bolding
• Death and Immortality in Middle-earth, edited by Daniel Helen, Mike Foster
• The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on Stories from Grimm to Gaiman, edited by Joseph Abbruscato and Tanya Jones, Maria Alberto
• Both Sides of the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis, Theological Imagination, and Everyday Discipleship, edited by Rob Fennell, S. Dorman
• Discworld and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works, edited by Anne Hiebert Alton and William C. Spruiell, Janet Brennan Croft
• The Hobbit and Tolkien’s Mythology, edited by Bradford Lee Eden, David L. Emerson
• Medievalism in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones by Shiloh Carroll, Joseph Young
• Poetry and Song in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Anna Milon, Diane Joy Baker
• Briefly Noted: Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth, edited by Catherine McIlwaine; The Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault, edited by Christopher Betts; The Mabinogion, translated by Sioned Davies; Janet Brennan Croft

Mythcon 50 First Notice

Just came across the following on the Mythopoeic Society website. I'm hoping the formatting comes through okay.

Mythcon 50
August 2-5, 2019

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Mythcon 50

Looking Back, Moving Forward
DRAFT logo by Sue Dawe

San Diego, California
August 2-5, 2019

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Registration and Room & Board

The Mythopoeic Society's final celebration of our three fiftieth anniversary celebrations: our 50th Annual Mythopoeic Conference!

Theme: Looking Back, Moving Forward

Our theme is a head-nod to Roman mythology's Janus, the god of beginnings and endings, gates and doorways, transitions and passages and duality. So we are moving forward into the future while also, at least for this Mythcon, looking backward toward the place from where we've come.

Call for Papers will be available soon.

Local artist and Mythcon favorite Sue Dawe has agreed to run the art show and is currently working on our logo; she gave permission to share this draft image at the top of the page.

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Guests of Honor


John Crowley - Author Guest of Honor

John Crowley was born in December, 1942, in Presque Isle, Maine, where his father, an Army Air Corps doctor, was stationed. He spent the war years (of which he remembers nothing) in Greenwich Village, in a family of women: his mother, older sister, aunt and grandmother, and baby sister. After the war his father resumed his medical practice in Brattleboro, Vermont, and then in 1952 took the family to Martin, Kentucky (pop. 700) to be medical director of a small Catholic hospital. John read Sherlock Holmes and Thomas Costain and Gods, Graves and Scholars, and decided to be an archeologist.

Two years later Doctor Crowley got a better job — head of the student infirmary at Notre Dame College (now University). John taught himself to write blank verse, composed the beginnings of tragedies, and planned for a career in the theater. He went to Indiana University, where he dropped that idea, majored in English and wrote poetry. Upon grduation, he went to New York City. There he planned to make films, wrote screenplays that were not produced, and began working on documentary films. He also began writing novels, beginning with a science fiction tale (The Deep, 1975)and then another (Beasts, 1977). But he had also begun writing a much larger and odder work, which would not be finished for ten years: Little, Big was published in 1981 and won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in 1982. By then he had moved to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts, where he met a woman he hired, on their first date, to do research for him on a documentary. After some years of friendship, courtship, collaboration, they married and had twin daughters. In 1992, through the intervention of Yale professors who had come to admire his work, he got a job teaching Creative Writing as an adjunct and later a half-time Senior Lecturer, from which eminence he retired in June of 2018.

John won his second Mythopoeic Fantasy Award in 2018 for KA: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr. We include the closing paragraph from his acceptance remarks here: “When he was in his eighties, the English writer Leonard Woolf, husband of Virginia, said at a literary dinner set out for him that the way to gain honor in British literary life is simply to live long enough. I don't think that that's the American standard. Which makes me doubly happy at the age I have reached to receive again this honor that once before came to me, close to the beginning of my career. My thanks to all who brought this about.”

Meanwhile he has all along continued to write books and stories, some magical, most historical in one way or another, none of them very much like any of the others. They are described on the pages of his website, which also includes his blog.

Verlyn Flieger - Scholar Guest of Honor

Verlyn Flieger is a specialist in comparative mythology with a concentration in J.R.R. Tolkien. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Tolkien, Celtic, Arthurian, Native American, and Norse myth. She holds an M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1977) from The Catholic University of America, and has been associated with the University of Maryland since 1976. Retired from teaching at the University of Maryland in 2012, she is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at UMD. She teaches courses online at Signum University.

Her best-known books are Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (1983; revised edition, 2002); A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie, which won the 1998 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies; and Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology (2005). She won a second Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies in 2002 for Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, which she co-edited with Carl Hostetter, and a third Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies in 2013 for Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien.

With David Bratman and Michael D. C. Drout, she is co-editor of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review.

Verlyn has also written Pig Tale and The Inn at Corbies’ Caww, a novella, Avilion in The Doom of Camelot, an anthology of Arthurian fiction edited by James Lowder, and a short story, “Green Hill Country” in Doug Anderson's fantasy anthology, Seekers of Dreams.

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Location

Please join us in San Diego, California, for Mythcon 50. San Diego is a wonderful "destination city" where Mythcon has been held only once before in 1991 (Mythcon 22) and is well worth the return. Early Mythopoeic conferences were held primarily at colleges and universities, a more-affordable option back in the late 1960s through the 1980s; in the last decade Mythcons have been primarily hotel-based and we find this to be a kind of two-edged sword: hotels are almost always more comfortable in which to stay but much more challenging for shared meals, which many of us really enjoy. They are more expensive housing but sometimes less expensive function space (we must guarantee a high-enough number of room nights and spend a lot of money on food and beverage) but very expensive audio/visual support. These choices are always the challenge in planning every Mythcon.

For Mythcon 50, we are harkening back to our roots and will be on a university campus with very nice meeting space.

Registration and Room & Board

Registration is now open here.

Specific details and room & board packages will be available soon. Our plan will include breakfast and dinner (Friday and Saturday) or banquet (Sunday) in the room & board package; lunch will be on our own with many close options from which to choose. For people who aren't able or willing to stay in a dorm, there are several hotels on the trolley line, to which we'll link in the future.

Mythlore 132 Contents

Catching up again. Here are the details of the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Mythlore. Ordering information at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-132.htm.


Mythlore 132 Volume 36, Issue 2
Spring/Summer 2018


Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Tyrion Lannister: A Fulcrum of Balance in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
— Patricia Monk

“Love of Knowledge is a Kind of Madness”: Competing Platonisms in the Universes of C.S. Lewis and H.P. Lovecraft
— Guillaume Bogiaris

Allegorical Reference to Oxford University through Classical Myth in the Early Poetry of Dorothy L. Sayers: A Reading of “Alma Mater” from OP. I.
— Barbara L. Prescott

On Superhero Stories: The Marvel Cinematic Universe as Tolkienesque Fantasy
— A.G. Holdier

Bilbo Baggins and the Forty Thieves: The Reworking of Folktale Motifs in The Hobbit (and The Lord of the Rings)
— Giovanni Carmine Costabile


Notes and Letters

Ursula K. Le Guin: An Appreciation, David Bratman
Ursula K. Le Guin in Mythlore, Janet Brennan Croft
“The Valley of the Na,” Pat Wynne, from Mythlore #56 (Winter 1988)
Reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien: Romanticist and Poet by Julian Eilmann, Kris Swank
C.S. Lewis and Christian Postmodernism by Kyoko Yuasa, Peter G. Epps
Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology by Michael Vincent Di Fucca, Tiffany Brooke Martin
Scotland’s Forgotten Treasure: The Visionary Romances of George MacDonald by Colin Manlove, Bonnie Gaarden
English People by Owen Barfield, Narnia and the Fields of Arbol by Matthew Dickerson and David O’Hara, and The Mythic Dimension by Joseph Campbell, Phillip Fitzsimmons
C.S. Lewis and the Art of Writing by Corey Latta, Tiffany Brooke Martin
C.S. Lewis and the Arts: Creativity in the Shadowlands, edited by Rod Miller, Michael David Prevett
Game of Thrones Versus History: Written in Blood by Brian Pavlac, Joseph Young
Detecting Wimsey: Papers on Dorothy L. Sayers’s Detective Fiction by Nancy-Lou Patterson, edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft, Joe R. Christopher
Goddess and Grail: The Battle for Arthur’s Promised Land by Jeffrey John Dixon, Kris Swank





SPECIAL SECTION ON DIVINATION IN FANTASY

Introduction: Divination and Prophecy in Mythopoeic Fantasy
— Emily E. Auger

Letting Sleeping Abnormalities Lie: Lovecraft and the Futility of Divination
— Carol S. Matthews

Tarot and T.S. Eliot in Stephen King’s Dark Tower Novels
— Emily E. Auger

The Unlikely Milliner and the Magician of Threadneedle-street
— K.A. Laity


Notes
An Annotated List of Fantasy Novels Incorporating Tarot (1968-1989), Emily E. Auger
Divination and Prophecy in The Lord of the Rings: Some Observations, Robert Field Tredray

Reviews
Divination and Human Nature by Peter T. Struck, Larry Swain
The Tarot of the Future by Arthur Rosengarten, Emily E. Auger 

Mythlore 131 Contents

Catching up. Here are the contents to the Fall/Winter 2017 number of Mythlore. The issue can be purchased from the Mythopoeic Society at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-131.htm.


Mythlore 131 Volume 36, Issue 1
Fall/Winter 2017
Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

Treasure in the Archives: A Celebration of Archival Collections
— Laura Schmidt

“Things That Were, and Things That Are, and Things That Yet May Be”: The J.R.R. Tolkien Manuscript Collection at Marquette University
— William M. Fliss

Into the Wild Woods: On the Significance of Trees and Forests in Fantasy Fiction
— Weronika Łaszkiewicz

“Countries of the Mind”: The Mundane, the Fantastic, and Reality in the Landscapes of Diana Wynne Jones’s Hexwood and Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom Series
— Brittani Ivan

“Morning Stars of a Setting World”: Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturæ and Tolkien’s Legendarium as Neo-Platonic Mythopoeia
— Christopher Vaccaro

“A Warp of Horror”: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sub-creation of Evil
— Richard Angelo Bergen

“Your Mother Died to Save You”: The Influence of Mothers in Constructing Moral Frameworks for Violence in Harry Potter
— Margaret S. Mauk

J.R.R. Tolkien and the 1954 Nomination of E.M. Forster for the Nobel Prize in Literature
— Dennis Wilson Wise

Maleldil and Reader Response in C.S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet
— Thomas Rand

Three Rings for the Elven-kings: Trilogizing Tolkien in Print and Film
— Robert T. Tally


Notes and Letters
Hugo Dyson: An Update, David Bratman
Robert E. Havard: A Closer Look at the “Medical Inkling,” Sarah O’Dell
Memories of Clyde Kilby, Mike Foster
A Note on a Name, Verlyn Flieger
Letter to the Editor, J. Aleksandr Wootton

Reviews
Beren and Lúthien, Katherine Neville
Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty, Phillip Irving Mitchell
The Fantastic of the Fin de Siècle, Douglas A. Anderson
Laughter in Middle-earth, Janet Brennan Croft
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy, Glenn R. Gray
From Peterborough to Faery, David Emerson
The Ravenclaw Chronicles and Harry Potter for Nerds II, Jennifer W. Spirko
Deeper Magic, Diane Joy Baker
The Invention of Angela Carter, Dennis Wilson Wise
Forgotten Leaves: Essays from a Smial, Cait Coker
Tolkien Studies v.XIII, North Wind v.35, and VII v.33, Janet Brennan Croft

Briefly Noted, Janet Brennan Croft, Mike Foster

CFP Mythopoeic Children’s Literature, Special Issue of Mythlore (3/30/2019)

CFP: Mythopoeic Children’s Literature, Special Issue of Mythlore
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2018/cfp-call-for-papers-mythopoeic-childrens-literature-special-issue-of-mythlore/
September 14, 2018

Call for Papers: Mythopoeic Children’s Literature, Special Issue of Mythlore

Fall 2019 Guest Edited by Donna R. White ** Draft Deadline: March 30, 2019 ** Final paper deadline: June 30, 2019 **

Mythlore, a journal dedicated to the genres of myth and fantasy (particularly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), invites article submissions for a special issue focused on children’s literature.

Children’s fantasy has always been a part of mythopoeic literature, and Mythlore has occasionally published articles about myth- building children’s writers such as J.K. Rowling and Nancy Farmer; however, this special issue will focus specifically on mythopoeic literature for children. As always, we welcome essays on The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit, but we also encourage articles that discuss the works of other mythopoeic writers for young readers. Classic works like Peter Pan and The Wind in the Willows have clear mythopoeic elements, as do modern fantasies by Philip Pullman, Diana Wynne Jones, Lloyd Alexander, and many others. Studies of lesser known writers like Carol Kendall are also welcome. To get an idea of the range of topics covered in Mythlore, visit the online archive at https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/ and consult the electronic index, which can be downloaded free at http://www.mythsoc.org/press/mythlore-index-plus.htm Submission guidelines can be found at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-submissions.htm.

Send queries and questions to Donna R. White, dwhite@atu.edu. Drafts and final papers should be submitted via https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/

CFP Mythopoeic Children's and Young Adult Literature (Spec Issue of Mythlore) (3/30/2019)

Mythopoeic Children's and Young Adult Literature
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/18/mythopoeic-childrens-and-young-adult-literature

deadline for submissions: March 30, 2019

full name / name of organization: Mythopoeic Society

contact email: dwhite@atu.edu



Call for Papers: Mythopoeic Children’s and Young Adult Literature



Special Issue of Mythlore, Fall 2019

Guest Edited by Donna R. White

** Draft Deadline: March 30, 2019

** Final paper deadline: June 30, 2019



Mythlore, a journal dedicated to the genres of myth and fantasy (particularly the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), invites article submissions for a special issue focused on children’s literature. Children’s fantasy has always been a part of mythopoeic literature, and Mythlore has occasionally published articles about myth-building children’s writers such as J.K. Rowling and Nancy Farmer; however, this special issue marks the first time we have focused specifically on mythopoeic literature for children and young adults.



As always, we welcome essays on The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit, but we also encourage articles that discuss the works of other mythopoeic writers for young readers. Classic works like Peter Pan and The Wind in the Willows have clear mythopoeic elements, as do modern fantasies by Philip Pullman, Diana Wynne Jones, Lloyd Alexander, and many others. Studies of lesser known writers like Carol Kendall are also welcome.



To get an idea of the range of topics covered in Mythlore, visit the online archive at https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/

and consult the electronic index, which can be downloaded free at http://www.mythsoc.org/press/mythlore-index-plus.htm

Submission guidelines can be found at

http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-submissions.htm



Send queries and questions to Donna R. White, dwhite@atu.edu.

Drafts and final papers should be submitted via https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/

CFP Mythcon 49 (5/1/2018; Atlanta 7/20-23/2018)

Mythcon 49: On​ ​the​ ​Shoulders​ ​of​ ​Giants
http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-49.htm

Atlanta, Georgia
July 20 - 23, 2018

Call for Papers
The Mythopoeic Society has launched into a series of 50th anniversaries: the founding of the Society in 2017; the initial solicitation of articles for Mythlore in 2018; and of our Mythopoeic conferences in 2019. Because of the way that Inklings scholarship has built on a series of good foundations, for Mythcon 49 we've chosen the theme, On​ ​the​ ​Shoulders​ ​of​ ​Giants.



Call for Papers Download PDF of Call for Papers here


CONFERENCE THEME

On the Shoulders of Giants
The Mythopoeic Society has launched into a series of 50th anniversaries: the founding of the Society in 2017, the conception and launch of our scholarly journal Mythlore in 2018, and the establishment of our mythopoeic conference in 2019. Our theme is suggested by the ways in which Inklings scholarship has built on such good foundations. We will celebrate these foundation and fifty years of building “On the Shoulders of Giants” at Mythcon 49. Papers exploring this theme might include, but are not limited to any of the following:
• The past, present, and future of mythopoeic scholarship and independent journals
• Academic, audience, and critical reception of mythopoeic literature
• The history of fandom, fan communities, and fan-fiction
• Adaptations of mythopoeic literature — film, music, gaming, and more
• The mythopoeic giants who inspired the Inklings — including Homer, Dante, Milton, George MacDonald, William Morris, G.K. Chesterton, and the most prolific of them all, Anon.
• Giants as literary figures in myth, fairy tale, and mythopoeic literature — Atlas, Goliath, the Norse Giants, Grendel, Gogmagog, Tolkien’s Trolls, the Giants and Ettins of Narnia



GUEST OF HONOR

Robin Anne Reid, Scholar Robin Anne Reid is a Professor in the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University-Commerce, where she specializes in creative writing, critical theory, and marginalized literatures. She edited the two-volume Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Greenwood, 2009), with Judy Ann Ford, Professor of History, Texas A&M-Commerce. She and Dr. Ford team-taught a series of undergraduate and graduate courses on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, both face to face and online. Their collaborative essay, '[T]hings that were, and things that are, and things that yet may be:' Teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings On-Line, appeared in Approaches to Teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Other Works, edited by Leslie Donovan (MLA, 2015). Dr. Reid has also published on Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. Other recent Tolkien publications are an essay on female bodies and femininities in The Lord of the Rings in The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium, edited by Christopher Vaccaro, a bibliographic essay on the history of scholarship on female characters in Tolkien's work in Perilous and Fair, edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie Donovan, and a bibliographic essay on race and Tolkien studies in Tolkien and Alterity, edited by Christopher Vaccaro and Yvette Kisor. Besides her work on Tolkien and feminist science fiction, she has also published on fan productions and fan activism in online media fandom. She is a regular contributor to “The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies” in the annual journal, Tolkien Studies.


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers dealing with the conference theme are especially encouraged. We also welcome papers focusing on the work and interests of the Inklings (especially J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams), on our Guests of Honor, and on other mythopoeic authors and themes. Papers from a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines are likewise welcome. Each paper is generally given a one-hour time slot, but papers should be timed for oral presentation in 40–45 minutes to allow time for questions. Two shorter papers can also be accommodated in a single one-hour time slot. We also welcome proposals for panels consisting of several shorter papers on related topics or for open panel discussions on subjects appropriate to Mythcon. All presenters must register for the full conference; please see the Mythcon 49 web page, www.mythcon.org, for information and rates.

Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for presentation at the conference to Mythlore, the refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society (www.mythlore.org). All papers should conform to the 8th edition of the MLA Style Manual. Presenters who are full-time undergraduate or graduate students are encouraged to submit their completed conference papers in advance for consideration for the Alexei Kondratiev Student Paper Award. Please see www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/alexei.htm for more information.

Paper abstracts of no more than 300 words, along with contact information, should be sent to the Papers Coordinator at the address below by May 1, 2018. Please include the anticipated duration of your presentation and any A/V requirements you feel are essential. We will make every effort to accommodate your A/V requests, but this cannot be guaranteed. You will be notified after the deadline if your paper or panel proposal has been accepted.

Jason Fisher
Mythcon 49 Papers Coordinator
visualweasel@yahoo.com





Location Mythcon 49 will be held in Atlanta, Georgia. This is our first Mythcon in the South in 15 years! The last one was Mythcon 34 in Nashville, Tennesee. We will be at the Ritz-Carlton in Downtown, right in the heart of the city near all of the tourist destinations.

We have arranged for a preferred guest rate of $159 per room at the Ritz-Carlton. When booking you will need to identify yourself as an attendee of Mythcon 49, more details about this are below. We recommend staying at the Ritz, not only to be in the middle of things and avoid a long, late-night walk back from the hospitality suite, but also so the conference is credited with your room nights.

Guests can contact the Ritz-Carlton call center at 1-800-241-3333 and state that they are coming to The Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta (Downtown), for Mythcon July 2018 and provide the agent with their requested dates of stay; the agent will identify your group rate of $159.00.

Guests can also reserve online at http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/Atlanta/Default.htm - enter their desired dates of stay, enter the seven letter Group/Promotion code MCJMCJA and click find to complete the reservation process.

Mythlore 130 Now Available

Sorry for not having posted in a while.

Here is a quick update on the latest number of Mythlore. It can be ordered direct from the Mythopoeic Society at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore/mythlore-130.htm.

Contents are as follows:


Mythlore 130, Volume 35, Issue 2 (Spring/Summer 2017)

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

“Time to Prepare a Face”: Mythology Comes of Age
— Andrew Lazo

To Grow Together, or To Grow Apart: The Long Sorrow of the Ents and Marriage in The Lord of the Rings.
— Nicole duPlessis

“Enough about Whores”: Sexual Characterization in A Song of Ice and Fire.
— Joseph Young

“It Had Been His Virtue, and Therefore Also the Cause of His Fall”: Seduction as a Mythopoeic Accounting for Evil in Tolkien’s Work.
— Maria Alberto

The Name of the Ring: or, There and Back Again.
— Janet Brennan Croft

Tolkien’s Allusive Backstory: Immortality and Belief in the Fantasy Frame.
— Wayne A. Chandler and Carrol L. Fry

Utopia in Deep Heaven: Thomas More and C.S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy
.— Benjamin C. Parker

From the Ineluctable Wave to the Realization of Imagined Wonder: Tolkien’s Transformation of Psychic Pain into Art.
— John Rosegrant

A Common Language of Desire: The Magicians, Narnia, and Contemporary Fantasy.
— Kelly Kramer

Reviews

• Fisher, Jason: A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages. J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins.
• Fitzsimmons, Philip: The ‘Great War’ of Owen Barfield and C.S. Lewis: Philosophical Writings 1927-1930. Edited by Norbert Feinendegen and Arend Smilde Joy and Poetic Imagination: Understanding C.S. Lewis’s “Great War” with Owen Barfield and its Significance for Lewis’s Conversion and Writings. Stephen Thorson.
• Larsen, Kristine: The Hero’s Quest and the Cycles of Nature: An Ecological Interpretation of World Mythology. Rachel S. McCoppin.
• Brown, Nancy Marie: Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church. Richard Firth Green.
• Cochran, James M.: Outlaw Heroes as Liminal Figures of Film and Television. Rebecca A. Umland.
• Martin, Tiffany Brooke: C.S. Lewis at Poets’ Corner. Edited by Michael Ward and Peter S. Williams.
• Foster, Mike: A Well of Wonder: Essays on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Inklings. Clyde S. Kilby.
• Croft, Janet Brennan: Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern. Vol. 6, nos. 1 and 2, 2016. Hither Shore: Interdisciplinary Journal on Modern Fantasy Literature. Vol. 12, 2015.

Mythcon 45 Program Update

The program for Mythcon 45 at Wheaton College is now available online. Details at http://www.mythsoc.org/news/mythcon-45-program-schedule-available/.

CFP Mythcon 2014 (4/15/14)

At last:

Call for Papers: Mythopoeic Society Conference 45
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Friday, August 8 through Monday, August 11, 2014
http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/45/

WHERE FANTASY FITS
Scholar Guest of Honor: Richard C. West
Winner of the 1976 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Scholarship for Tolkien Criticism.
Author Guest of Honor: Ursula Vernon
Winner of the 2013 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature for Digger.

Fantasy literature does not fit comfortably into any scheme. Both old and new, traditional and innovative, popular and elite, mainstream and esoteric, escapist and engaged, high-tech and anti-technology, fantasy defies definitions and transcends categories, dramatizing the incompleteness of our understanding of our own imaginations. At Mythcon 45 we will discuss the place of fantasy in our culture, our institutions, and our hearts.

Central to this theme will be questions of genre: What is fantasy? What are fairy stories? What constitutes the fantastic? What is fantasy versus magical realism? What is speculative fiction? How does Tolkien’s legendarium fit in with the mythic texts such as Beowulf or the Norse Eddas or his scholarship? How do Lewis’s Narnia books or his science fiction fit into the classic literary tradition? How do fantasists question our fundamental assumptions about literature and the world? We can discuss authors who explore different genres or modes of writing that do not lend themselves to easy categorization such as Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Guy Gavriel Kay, Tim Powers, Terry Pratchett, and others who make us ponder what it means to fit into a particular style or format. We invite papers that broadly consider the nature and boundaries of fantasy and the relationship between fantasy and different literary and artistic forms—how fantasy fits or resists our attempts to classify and define it.

Papers and panels dealing with the conference themes (or other themes sparked in your brain by this topic) are encouraged. As always, we especially welcome proposals for papers and panels focusing on the work and interests of the Inklings (especially J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams), of our Guests of Honor, and of other fantasy authors and themes. Papers and panels from a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines are welcome.

Individual papers will be scheduled for one hour to allow time for questions, but should be timed for oral presentation in 40 minutes maximum. Two presenters who wish to present shorter, related papers may also share a one-hour slot. Panels will be scheduled for 1.5-hour time slots and will normally include 3-5 presenters who speak briefly on the subject (usually 10-15 minutes), leaving substantial time for discussion with the audience.

Participants are encouraged to submit papers chosen for presentation at the conference to Mythlore, the refereed journal of the Mythopoeic Society (http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore). All papers should conform to the MLA Style Manual. Papers from graduate and undergraduate students are especially encouraged; we offer an award for “Best Student Paper.” See http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/student-paper.

Paper and panel proposals (250 word maximum), along with contact information, should be sent to the Papers Coordinator at the following email address by 15 April 2014. AV and technology requests must be included in your proposal.

Papers Coordinator:
David D. Oberhelman
Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
d.oberhelman@okstate.edu

The Mythopoeic Society is an international literary and educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and mythopoeic literature. We believe the study of these writers can lead to greater understanding and appreciation of the literary, philosophical, and spiritual traditions which underlie their works, and can engender an interest in the study of myth, legend, and the genre of fantasy. Find out about past conferences at (http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon).

Advance Notice for Mythcon 45

The Mythopoeic Society has released the following details regarding Mythcon 45 to be held next summer. Further details and updates as they become available can be found at the conference's home page: http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-45/.


Mythcon 45
Where Fantasy Fits
Wheaton College
Norton, MA
August 8-11, 2014

Guests of Honor

Richard C. West – Scholar Winner of the 1976 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies for Tolkien Criticism.

to be announced – Author


Where Fantasy Fits:

Fantasy literature does not fit comfortably into any scheme. Both old and new, traditional and innovative, popular and elite, mainstream and esoteric, escapist and engaged, high-tech and anti-technology, fantasy defies definitions and transcends categories, dramatizing the incompleteness of our understanding of our own imaginations. At Mythcon 45 we will discuss the place of fantasy in our culture, our institutions, and our hearts.