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Issue 103/104 Volume 27, Number 1/2 Fall/Winter 2008

Editorial - Janet Brennan Croft

In Memoriam: Pauline Baynes - Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

Pauline Baynes in Mythlore - Janet Brennan Croft and Edith Crowe

Reconstructing Arda: Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor - Douglas C. Kane

Gandalf and Merlin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Adoption and Transformation of a Literary Tradition - Frank P. Riga

Dragons and Serpents in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series: Are They Evil? - Lauren Berman

Time and J.R.R. Tolkien's "Riddles in the Dark" - Marie Nelson

So Far From the Shire: Psychological Distance and Isolation in The Lord of the Rings - Ginna Wilkerson

The Blade Against the Burden: The Iconography of the Sword in The Lord of the Rings - Michael J. Brisbois

A Single Leaf: Tolkien's Visual Art and Fantasy - Jeffrey J. MacLeod and Anna Smol

The Non-Dead in John Dickson Carr's The Burning Court - Joe R. Christopher

Fair Lady Goldberry, Daughter of the River - Ann McCauley Basso

Investigating the Role and Origin of Goldberry in Tolkien's Mythology - Taryne Jade Taylor

This issue features reviews of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Michael Ward; Owen Barfield: Romanticism Comes of Age: A Biography by Simon Blaxland-de Lange; Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia, edited by Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin; Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter by Don W. King; Inside Language: Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien by Ross Smith; The Voice of the Heart: The Working of Mervyn Peakes's Imagination by G. Peter Winnington; and Tolkien On Fairy-Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien with commentary and notes by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson.