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Volume 4 Number 2 Article 7 12-15-1976 An Inklings Bibliography (3) Joe R. Christopher Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation Christopher, Joe R. (1976) "An Inklings Bibliography (3)," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 4 : No. 2 , Article 7. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol4/iss2/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Mythopoeic Society at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To join the Mythopoeic Society go to: http://www.mythsoc.org/join.htm Mythcon 51: A VIRTUAL “HALFLING” MYTHCON July 31 - August 1, 2021 (Saturday and Sunday) http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm Mythcon 52: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien Albuquerque, New Mexico; July 29 - August 1, 2022 http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm Abstract A series of bibliographies of primary and secondary works concerning the Inklings. This article is available in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol4/iss2/7 AN INKLINGS BIBLIOGRAPHY (3) Compiled by Joe R. Christopher "An Inklings Bibliography" is an annotated checklist appear ing in each issue of M y th lo r e and covering both primary and is a coterie-taste. (This is not altered by the coterie's secondary m aterials on J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles being large, as in this case it appears to be.) ...m odern W illiams, and Owen B arfield. This listin g contains articles literary culture looks to Pound, Joyce, and Beckett as its from journals regularly appearing on the Inklings from April m asters, and not to Tolkien. If we wish to understand to June 1976, with a substantial selection of other mater modern letters, it is with Pound, Joyce, and Beckett that we ia ls. The question raised in the introduction of the prev must sta rt. ... Second, I'm afraid we can exaggerate the ious installm ent about how many Inklings to cover has not inherent value of fantasy as a companion to theology, or as had time to generate much response, but o f the two members an avenue into it. Lewis's fantasies are undeniably useful of the publishing process who saw it early and responded, as Christian w itness. Lewis intended this. Tolkien's 'joy neither wished John W ain's works to be listed here (one, on beyond the w alls of the world' is vaguer. ...thousands of the basis that Wain said that he was out of sympathy with devoted secularists like Frodo without theological results." the goals of the Inklings while he was meeting with them); Basney suggests that myth criticism is not necessarily one wished Owen B arfield's works to be included, the other C hristian, and that C hristianity is larger than fantasy can did not. (The reason for B arfield's name being listed above i n d i c a t e . is not to decide the argument, but to indicate that a book Note: as a continuation of th is column, Cheryl Forbes of essays about him is part of this installm ent—see Sugar- review s C. N. M anlove's Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (Cam m a n 's Evolution of Consciousness.) Perhaps the introduction bridge U niversity Press, 1975), pp. 18-19. She finds Man- to the next installm ent can end this discussion. In the love wrong in most of his evaluations, and suggests that his meantime, authors and readers are encouraged to send o ff modern viewpoint (given in his conclusion) has blinded him prints or bibliographic references to the compiler, to what Tolkien, in particular, is doing. Dr. J. R. Christopher Berman, Ruth. "Tolkien’s V erse." M ythprint: The Monthly English Department B ulletin o f The Mythopoeic Society, 13:5 (May 1976), 2. Tarleton State U niversity [The cover illu stratio n , "Earendil was a M ariner," by Stephenville, TX 76402 USA John Uhrmacher, accompanies th is essay.] (For this third installm ent, inform ation or item s were pro A five-paragraph note on the verse in T h e H o b b it a n d T h e vided by Jim A llan, Clyde S. K ilby, Barbara G riffin, David Lord of the Rings, "most of the poems in T h e H o b b it s h a r e a Hulan, Kay Lindskoog, and Bernard Zu b e r .) common set of images: the absence of the king, barrenness; mountains, stars, and journeying; the return of the king and Allan, Jim. "The Hobbit W riting on the W all." Minas T irith fe rtility ." "The two most am bitious poems of T L o tR , B i l b o 's Evening-Star: Journal o f the American Tolkien Society, song of Earendil and S trider's translation of the lay of 5:3 (April 1976), 23-36. [A page of renditions of a Beren and Tinuviel, are so rich in sound and so flaccid in specimen passage which is poorly reproduced here—p. 36— meaning as to come near boring the reader." Examples are is reprinted in the next issue, 5:4 (July 1976), 36.] given to back up the view of these two poems; better lyrics A substantial discussion of the ways of w riting English in are also cited. tengwar. Three charts appear: (1) the tengwar as in the For a reply, see the letter by Mike Bazinet, M y th lo r e Houghton M ifflin ed., Appendix E .II, p. 396, but w ith their 4:1/13 (September 1976), 29. values added (p. 25); (2) the vowel signs and symbols (p. 29); (3) other symbols (p. 31). Allan covers the various Brown, Carol Ann. "The Three Roads: A Comment on 'The Queen modes invented by Tolkien, the details of the W estron mode, o f D r u m . CSL: The B ulletin o f the New York C. S. Lewis and the differences between w riting phonetic and orthogra S o c i e t y , 7:6/79 (April 1976), 14. phic English. Several of his examples of Tolkien's use come Brown indicates th at the structure of "The Queen of Drum" is from an unpublished le tte r in the M arquette U niversity based on the three roads on the Scottish ballad, "Thomas the p a p e r s . Rhymer": the roads to Heaven, H ell, and Elfland. In "The Queen of Drum," the King and Chancellor, descending into the Arman, Jesse B. "Living Middle Earth in the Early Y ears." dungeon of the castle, are sym bolically (at least) going A p p e n d ix I [monthly bulletin of the American Tolkien down into H ell; the Archbishop is a m artyr to his faith and Society], June 1976, pp. [2-4]. achieves Heaven; the Queen flees to Elfland. "This is the Reprinted from A m on D in , 2:1 (21 January 1973) and 2:2 (n.d. substance of the poem, but the three ways are a reality in given in this reprint)—a fanzine. Arman tells of his early our lives. ...E lfland is a present danger. The popularity isolation as a Tolkien fan. of transcendental m editation, the urge to increase Alpha Waves, and even the nightm are of LSD are examples of the Basney, Lionel. "What about Fantasy?" (in "The R efiner's uncontrolled hunger for what Aldous Huxley called 'th e doors Fire" column). C hristianity Today: A F ortnightly Maga of perception.'" zine o f Evangelical Conviction, 20:17 (21 May 1976), 18. Basney, w riting for the audience indicated by the magazine's Burke, Robert. "Beorn." Amon Hen: The B ulletin o f the su b title, warns of two dangers in an emphasis on Tolkien, [ B r i t i s h ] Tolkien Society, No. 20 (June 1976), 7. Lewis, and Chesterton: "F irst, we can forget that [fantasy] 33 A note on Beorn's background and character. Chapman, Ed. "Toward a Sacram ental Ecology: Technology, Helms' story, "The Teeth of Scatha," is to be found in N ature, and Transcendence in C. S. Lew is's Ransom T ril Appendix A.II of The Lord of the Rings (Houghton M ifflin o g y ." M y t h l o r e , 3:4/12 (June 1976), 10-17. (Illustrated ed., p. 345). Jessica Kemball-Cook notes that the "Oxonmoot by Bonnie GoodKnight, p. 10; by Taral Wayne MacDonald, 2: Report" assigned in brackets to Stuart and Rosie Clark pp. 13-15.) (as the editors of that issues of A m o n H e n ) was written by A valuable article which offers an original approach to the herself instead. Nancy-Lou Patterson writes that, despite Ransom T r ilo g y . Chapman b e g in s w ith a b r i e f summary o f th e the attribution of an item to her in M y t h l o r e , No. 10, she critics' attitudes towards Lewis's comments on science (see is not its author; see the correction in the second install particularly footnote 1, on p.