Janet Croft sends along the contents of the latest issue of Mythlore - looking like a lot of good reading material! You can order a copy through the Mythopoeic Society webpage - while you are there, consider becoming a member of the organization if you aren't already.






Mythlore


A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Issue 124                    Volume 32, Number 2                 Spring/Summer 2014

Editorial

Janet Brennan Croft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3


Tolkien in Love: Pictures from Winter 1912-1913

Nancy Bunting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Divine Surgeons at Work: The Presence and Purpose of the Dream Vision in Till We Have Faces

Erin K. Wagner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Tolkien’s Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions


Janet Brennan Croft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Subverting Mythopoeic Fantasy: Miyuki Miyabe’s The Book of Heroes

Grzegorz Trębicki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

“They Have Quarreled with the Trees”: Perverted Perceptions of “Progress” in the Fiction Series of C.S. Lewis

Deborah Klein. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Artemis at Ragnarok: E.R. Eddison’s Queen Antiope

Joseph Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

From Children’s Book to Epic Prequel: Peter Jackson’s Transformation of Tolkien’s The Hobbit

Frank P. Riga, Maureen Thum, and Judith Kollmann . . . . . . .97

Pillaging Middle-earth: Self-plagiarism in Smith of Wootton Major

Josh B. Long. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

The Art of Detection in a World of Change: The Silver Chair and Spenser Revisited

Charles A. Huttar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

Reviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Items reviewed in this issue include:George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity by Daniel Gabelman; The Gender Dance: Ironic Subversion in C.S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy by Monika B. Hilder; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as translated by John Gardner; Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal by Joseph Campbell; The Riddles of the Hobbit by Adam Roberts; The Modern Literary Werewolf by Brent Stypczynski; Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings, edited by Susan Redington Bobby; C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra: Reshaping the Image of the Cosmos, edited by Judith Wolfe and Brendan Wolfe; The Ideal of Kingship in the Writings of Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien by Christopher Scarf; The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver et al; J.R.R. Tolkien: The Forest and the City, edited by Helen Conrad O’Briain and Gerard Hynes; and two journal issues, Tolkien Studies X and Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review 30.