Mythcon 27
The Inklings and Nature:
Magic in the Mountains, Wonder in the Woods
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
July 26-29, 1996
Guests of Honor
- Scholar: Doris T. Myers, author of C.S. Lewis in Context
- Artist: Ted Nasmith, artist of the 1996 Tolkien Calendar
Papers Presented
- Dr. Janice Bogstad, “Science/Magic Cusp: The 15th Century in Crowley, Eco, Gentle and Selected Contemporary Fantasy”
- David Bratman, “Hugo Dyson: Inkling, Teacher, Bon Vivant” and “Comparison of England’s and Middle-earth’s Administrative Geography”
- Dr. Joe Christopher, “The Nature Poetry of C.S. Lewis” and “The Dantean Structure of The Great Divorce“
- Steve Deyo, “Mytho-Poetic Diction: The Origins of Mythopoeia in the Works of Owen Barfield” and “A Secret Vice Re-examined: A Present Day Etiology”
- David Downing, “Development of Lewis’ Otherworldly Nature Imagery”
- Dr. Verlyn Flieger, “The Green World in Conflict: Nature and Culture in Tolkien’s Middle-earth”
- Prof. Michael A. Foster, “The Forest and the Hall: Nature and Man in Smith of Wootton Major“
- Dr. Diana Pavlac-Glyer, “An Antidote to Shadowlands”
- Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull, “Views and Visions of Nature in Tolkien’s Art”
- Susanne E. Hill, “C.S. Lewis on Animals, Nature and Ethics”
- Gary Hunnewell, “The Astronomy of Durin’s Day”
- Alexei Kondratiev, “An Cuma Scéal? (Does the Story Matter?) Two Celtic Language Writers of Modern Fantasy: Séamus MacAnnaidh and Robin Llywelyn”
- Dr. Bruce Leonard, “The Post-traumatic Stress Disorder of Frodo Baggins”
- Michael Johnson, “How Many Eldila Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?”
- Nancy Martsch, “J.R.R. Tolkien and American Fantasy”
- Marta Gracia de la Puerta, “Tolkien’s Concept of Nature: Correlations with Galicia’s Sense of Nature”
- Heidi Peterson, “In the Beginning: Reading Lewis into the Writing Nature Canon”
- David Sandner, “The Fantastic Sublime: Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories” and the Romantic Sublime”
- Dr. William Sarjeant, “The Geology of Middle-earth”
- Tim Schindler, “The Temptations of the One Ring of Power as Correlated to the Three Temptations of Christ in the Wilderness”
- Arden Smith, “Rúmilian Alphabet Workshop”