Recently added articles from Mythlore:
Editorial.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2009; ... THIS IS THE TYPES OF ISSUE I PARTICULARLY ENJOY as an editor and a reader--an issue where articles lead from one to another along a pathway of related ideas, encouraging the reader to make connections and head off in new directions along the way. We start off with a fascinating ...
Perilous shores: the unfathomable supernaturalism of water in 19th-century Scottish folklore.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... FROM THE SEAS TROUBLED BY DRAGONS, to the lochs haunted by kelpies and water horses, to shores and banks watched by fairies and glaistigs, the islands, coasts, and Highlands of Scotland present borderlands where the role of the supernatural in folk tales and legends articulates a sense of ...
Tolkiens's Sigurd & Gudrun: summary, sources, & analogs.(JRR Tolkien's 'The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun')(Table)
Sep 22, 2009; ... TOLKIEN'S VERSE IN SIGURD & GUDRUN IS INTENTIONALLY so condensed and so allusive that it is easy to miss the plot on a first reading. This table is intended to provide a convenient summary. It also indicates which major elements of the existing primary world legendarium Tolkien used for ...
Amanda McKittrick Ros and the Inklings.(Critical essay)(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... PICTURE THIS: WE ARE IN THE YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR II. The Inklings have been friends for a long time. J.R.R. Tolkien is no longer reading the manuscript of The Lord of the Rings to his mates. C. S. Lewis has also stopped reading his own work during the Inklings' Thursday night meetings ....
No sex in Narnia? How Hans Christian Andersen's "Snow Queen" problematizes C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; ... C. S. LEWIS'S THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA (1950-1956) are remembered by many adults as favorite books from their childhood. The excitement of finding a hidden world in a wardrobe, the possibility of being a king or queen in a fantasyland, the existence of fauns, dryads, and unicorns--all of ...