Janet Croft sends this news, along with the table of contents:

Folks, here’s the lineup for the spring issue of Mythlore. It’s at the printer now and should be on its way to subscribers by the end of next week. If you aren’t a subscriber, you should be!

J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Leaf by Niggle”: An Allegory in Transformation

Marie Nelson

Phantastical Regress: The Return of Desire and Deed in Phantastes and The Pilgrim’s Regress

Jeffrey Bilbro

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell? Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, and the Fantasy Tradition

Marek Oziewicz and Daniel Hade

C.S. Lewis’s “The Meteorite” and the Importance of Context

Joe R. Christopher

Fairy and Elves in Tolkien and Traditional Literature

Helios de Rosario Martínez

“Dwarves are Not Heroes”: Antisemitism and the Dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Writing

Rebecca Brackmann

Rethinking Shylock’s Tragedy: Radford’s Critique of Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice

Frank P. Riga

Totemic Reflexes in Tolkien’s Middle-earth

Yvette Kisor

The Voice of Saruman: Wizards and Rhetoric in The Two Towers

Jay Ruud

The Shire Quest: The ‘Scouring of the Shire’ as the Narrative and Thematic Focus of The Lord of the Rings

David M. Waito

Reviews
Where the Shadows Lie: A Jungian Interpretation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, by Pia Skogemann; Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story, by Evan I. Schwartz; Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman, edited by Don W. King; Collected Poems, by Mervyn Peake; C.S. Lewis on the Final Frontier: Science and the Supernatural in the Space Trilogy, by Sanford Schwartz; Death and Fantasy: Essays on Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and R.L. Stevenson, by William Gray; Stephen R. Donaldson and the Modern Epic Vision by Christine Barkley, and The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews, by Darrell Schweitzer.

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