MMYYTTHHLLOORREE Index Supplement Issues 101/102 through 103/104 Mythlore Index supplement issue 101/102 Z 1 Article Index by Author • Sorted by author, then alphabetically by title for authors of multiple articles. • Includes abstracts. • Main entries in bold face. A the topic. Concludes that dragons are morally neutral in her world, while Agan, Cami. “Song as Mythic Conduit serpents generally represent or are in The Fellowship of the Ring.” allied with evil. 26.3/4 (#101/102) (2008): 41‐63. This article on song in Middle‐earth Brisbois, Michael J. “The Blade explores the complex layering of history Against the Burden: The and legend that convey Tolkien’s themes Iconography of the Sword in The across a wide array of genres within the Lord of the Rings.” 27.1/2 (#103/104) legendarium, reinforcing the sense of (2008): 93‐103. depth of time Tolkien hoped to achieve Invites us to consider the deeper social even within The Hobbit. implications of carrying and using a sword in the medieval world of Middle‐ earth—how bearing a sword not only B indicates leadership and service, but provides an opportunity for social Basso, Ann McCauley. “Fair Lady mobility, in addition to its more obvious Goldberry, Daughter of the River.” military meanings. Considers as 27.1/2 (#103/104) (2008): 137‐146. examples Merry and Pippin swearing Examines Goldberry as an intermediary oaths to, respectively, Théoden and figure between noble or ethereal female Denethor; Éowyn’s heroic deeds; and characters like Galadriel and Éowyn and especially Aragorn’s use of the everyday women like Rosie Cotton, and Narsil/Andúril as a symbol of shows how her relationship with Tom legitimacy and service to his people. provides Sam with a paradigm for the ideal marriage. Considers Goldberry an Eve‐like figure. C Berman, Lauren. “Dragons and Christopher, Joe R. “The Christian Serpents in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Parody in Sara Paretsky’s Ghost Potter Series: Are They Evil?” Country.” 26.3/4 (#101/102) (2008): 27.1/2 (#103/104) (2008): 45‐65. 165‐184. Investigates the role and symbolism of Paretsky is best known for her V.I. dragons and serpents in J.K. Rowling’s Warshawski detective novels; in this Harry Potter series, with side excursions non‐series book, Chicago is haunted by into Lewis and Tolkien for their takes on 2 Y Mythlore Index supplement v. 26.3/4 through v.27.1/2 what may be an avatar of the Pupil, Biographer, and Friend of Babylonian goddess Ishtar. Includes a Inklings.” 26.3/4 (#101/102) (2008): listing of references to other fictional 5‐26. detective stories in the Warshawski An appreciation of Inkling George series. Sayer, author of Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times, widely regarded as one of the Christopher, Joe R. “The Non‐Dead in best biographies of Lewis to date. The John Dickson Carr’s The Burning author includes personal reminiscences Court.” 27.1/2 (#103/104) (2008): 127‐ of his friendship with Sayer, as well as 136 of Sayer’s friendships with Tolkien and John Dickson Carr’s The Burning Court is Lewis. an atypical novel for this author, who in nearly all other cases provides a purely mundane explanation for seemingly H supernatural events in his detective fiction. In this novel, the mystery centers Hammond, Wayne G. and Christina around undead characters who create Scull. “In Memoriam: Pauline more of their kind through witchcraft or Baynes.” 27.1/2 (#103/104) (2008): 5‐ killing and reincarnation. 6. A brief appreciation of artist Pauline Croft, Janet Brennan. “Nice, Good, or Baynes’s life and work, particularly her Right: Faces of the Wise Woman in illustrations for the works of Tolkien Terry Pratchett’s ‘Witches’ Novels.” and Lewis, with reminiscences of the 26.3/4 (#101/102) (2008): 151‐164. authors’ friendship with her. Examines the moral system that guides the use of magic by the witches of Hawkins, Emma B. “Tolkien’s Discworld. Considers the definitions of Linguistic Application of the Nice, Good, and Right under this Seventh Deadly Sin: Lust.” 26.3/4 system, and demonstrates how mature (#101/102) (2008): 29‐40. witches strive do what is Right. A look at how Tolkien developed the concept of the sin of lust in Middle‐ Croft, Janet Brennan and Edith Crowe. earth, giving it his own unique but “Pauline Baynes in Mythlore.” linguistically‐based interpretation as an 27.1/2 (#103/104) (2008): 7‐8 intensifier of other sins, rather than A listing of artist Pauline Baynes’s using it in its more common, purely appearances in Mythlore as illustrator or sexual, modern interpretation. author, or as the subject of articles or reviews. K Crowe, Edith. See Croft, Janet Brennan. Kane, Doug C. “Reconstructing Arda: Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of F Melkor.” 27.1/2 (#103/104) (2008): 9‐ 19. Foster, Mike. “‘That Most Unselfish Discusses Tolkien’s Silmarillion and how Man’: George Sayer, 1914‐2005: it was constructed from the materials Mythlore Index supplement issue 101/102 through 103/104 Z 3 later published in the twelve‐volume N History of Middle‐earth, in particular the version of “Of Fëanor and the Nelson, Marie. “‘The Homecoming of Unchaining of Melkor” in the published Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son’: Silmarillion compared with the source J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sequel to ‘The material given in Morgoth’s Ring. The Battle of Maldon.’” 26.3/4 author finds intriguing patterns in what (#101/102) (2008): 65‐87. Christopher Tolkien used and did not Considers the application of speech act use from the original material. theory to Tolkien’s “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son” and its source, “The Battle of Maldon,” and L how different speech acts propel the action of each story. Long, Josh B. “Two Views of Faërie in Smith of Wootton Major: Nokes Nelson, Marie. “Time and J.R.R. and his Cake, Smith and his Star.” Tolkien’s ‘Riddles in the Dark.’“ 26.3/4 (#101/102) (2008): 89‐100. 27.1/2 (#103/104) (2008): 67‐82. An analysis of Smith of Wootton Major, A close reading of the two riddle games showing how the cake and the star in Tolkien’s Hobbit‐‐the first between symbolize two diametrically opposed Bilbo and Gollum, and the second a sets of attitudes towards Faërie. three‐sided game where both Smaug and the reader try to decode Bilbo’s riddling self‐references. Discusses M “priming” in riddling, how riddles work as a speech act, and the sources of the MacLeod, Jeffrey J. and Anna Smol. “A riddles used in these games. Includes a Single Leaf: Tolkien’s Visual Art translation of Bilbo’s riddles to Smaug and Fantasy.” 27.1/2 (#103/104) into Old English. (2008): 105‐126. Provides us with a look into Tolkien’s thoughts on creativity, not just through P “On Fairy‐Stories” and “Leaf by Niggle,” as one might expect, but also Pendergast, John. “Six Characters in through Tolkien’s visual art. The Search of Shakespeare: Neil authors discuss and demonstrat how Gaiman’s Sandman and MacLeod’s own art was influenced by Shakespearian Mythos.” 26.3/4 Tolkien’s philosophy of sub‐creation. (#101/102) (2008): 185‐197. Illustrated with six photos, sketches, Looks at episodes from Neil Gaiman’s and completed paintings by MacLeod. Sandman comics dealing with two of Shakespeare’s most fantastic plays, A Mitchell, Christopher W. “Selected Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Sayer Holdings at the Wade Tempest. Center.” 26.3/4 (#101/102) (2008): 27. A bibliography of selected items by George Sayer held at the Wade Center library at Wheaton College, Illinois; not exhaustive. 4 Y Mythlore Index supplement v. 26.3/4 through v.27.1/2 R the hobbits to the sustaining beauty of the world. Considers Goldberry as an Rawls, Melanie A. “Witches, Wives Eve‐like figure. and Dragons: The Evolution of the Women in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea—An Overview.” 26.3/4 V (#101/102) (2008): 129‐149. A survey of the evolution of women in Veach, Grace L. “What the Spirit Ursula K. LeGuin’s Earthsea series, Knows: Charles Williams and examining how the author reassessed Kenneth Burke.” 26.3/4 (#101/102) her depiction of gender in the earlier (2008): 117‐128. books and deliberately changed her Explores parallels between the viewpoint in the later books. philosophy of Kenneth Burke and the poetry of Charles Williams. Riga, Frank P. “Gandalf and Merlin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Adoption and Vincent, Alana. “Putting Away Transformation of a Literary Childish Things: Incidents of Tradition.” 27.1/2 (#103/104) (2008): Recovery in Tolkien and Haddon.” 21‐44. 26.3/4 (#101/102) (2008): 101‐116. Concerns the roots of the wizard Applies the concept of Recovery from Gandalf’s character in the legendary Tolkien’s “On Fairy‐Stories” to an figure of Merlin, tracing Merlin’s unusual subject—Mark Haddon’s The development through a variety of Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night‐ English and continental literature up Time, a novel about a young boy with through the twentieth century, and Asperger’s Syndrome. showing how various authors, including Tolkien, interpreted and adapted the wizard for their purposes. W Wilkerson, Ginna. “So Far From the S Shire: Psychological Distance and Isolation in The Lord of the Rings.” Scull, Christina. See Hammond, Wayne 27.1/2 (#103/104) (2008): 83‐91. G. Considers Frodo’s psychological isolation in The Lord of the Rings and Smol, Anna. See MacLeod, Jeffrey J. offers a different perspective on Frodo and post‐traumatic stress syndrome, looking more closely at what was T happening to him during his quest rather than after and using our current Taylor, Taryne Jade.