Mythlore 146 Volume 43, Issue 2     (purchase below)

Spring/Summer 2025

Table of Contents

Editorial
— Janet Brennan Croft

No Ragnarök, No Armageddon: Pagan and Christian Interpretations of The Lord of the Rings
— Matthew Thompson-Handell

An Aspirational Cultus? Tolkien Fandom at the Borders of Belief
— Tom Emanuel

Divinity and the Void in Chinese and Thai Translations of the Ainulindalë
— Edic Reinders

The Middle-(Un)man of Desire: A Girardian Reading of Perelandra
— Clinton Manley

The Liberty to Bind Oneself: Chesterton and the Oath of Fëanor
— Matthew McKenna

Modelling the Fear of God in C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia
— Brett Roscoe

Feasting at the Threshold: Eucharistic Eroticism and Homonationalism in Diane Duane’s The Tale of the Five
— Taylor Driggers

Pandemic Mythmaking: COVID-19 and Mythological Symbolism in Indian Folk Art
— Ishani Anwesha Joshi and Sathyaraj Venkatesan

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Beowulf: Rowling’s Beowulfian Allusions, Analogues, and Inversions
— Mark-Elliot Finley

Book Culture and Narrative in Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice
— Maria Damkjær

The Bright Sword and its Sharpness: Swords, Symbolism, and Medievalism in The Lord of the Rings
— Gavin S. Davis

Alan Garner's Elidor: The “Anti-Narnian Fantasy”?
— Laura N. Van Dyke

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Notes and Letters

• Interview with Professor John McKinnell Concerning Tolkien’s Lectures on Beowulf, Łucasz Neubauer
• “Better to Reign in Hell”: Ambivalence and Orcs in the Lay of the Children of Húrin, Matthew Thompson-Handell
• St. Jack’s Experiment House for Juvenile Delinquents: Responding to Aslan’s Breath by Matthew Dickerson, G. Connor Salter
• Weaving Wikipedia’s Middle-earth Web, Ian F. Alexander
• What Will We Do with the Christmas Pudding?: Joy Davidman, William Lindsay Gresham, and “Christmas in the Workhouse”, G. Connor Salter and Clark Sheldon
• “Perilous and Fair” in “A Bleak, Barren Land”: A Feminist Responds to Dylan Lee Henderson’s Essay, Robin Anne Reid

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Reviews

• J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Townend — Laura N. Van Dyke
• Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth by Sam McBride — Phillip Fitzsimmons
• Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald, annotated edition — Tiffany Brooke Martin
• Mimetic Theory & Middle-earth: Untangling Desire in Tolkien’s Legendarium by Matthew J. Distefano — Curtis Gruenler
• Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter, edited by Kathryn McDaniel and Emily Strand, and The Ivory Tower, Harry Potter, and Beyond: More Essays on the Works of J.K. Rowling, edited by Lana Whited — Liam Butchart
• Harry Potter and Resistance by Beth Sutton-Ramspeck — Douglas C. Kane
• Mapping a Sense of Humor: Narrative and Space in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels by Daniel Lüthi — Susan M. Moore
• Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works by Patrick Curry — N. Trevor Brierly
• Briefly Noted:
  Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials: Identity, Reception, and Politics by Priscilla Hobbs — Dominic J. Nardi
  Magic, Magicians and Detective Fiction: Essays on Intersecting Modes of Mystery, edited by Rebecca Josephy — G. Connor Salter

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