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An Inklings Bibliography (20)

Joe R. Christopher

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Abstract A series of bibliographies of primary and secondary works concerning the Inklings.

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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/vol9/iss1/12 MYTHLORE 31: Spring 1982 page 37

An Inklings Bibliography (20)

compiled by Joe R. Christopher

This Bibliography is an annotated checklist covering both being tempted, this may be an allusion to The primary and secondary materials on J. R. R. Tolkien, C.S. Screwtape Letters; but the reference to Aristotle Lewis, Charles Williams, and the other Inklings. Authors implies a source in that philosophers' works, and readers are encouraged to send off-prints or biblio­ which alternately may be also Lewis's source for graphic references to the compiler: his use of the term. A probably reference to Dr. J. R. Christopher Tolkien's works in this first volume appears in a English Department passage in which a non-magician enters Ware's Tarleton State University workroom with two concentric circles whitewashed Stephenville, Texas 76402 USA on the floor; between the circles were written words, perhaps, "in characters which might have Armstrong, Michael. "Absolutely the Last , 1 T h is i s been Hebrew, Greek, Etruscan or even Elvish for It, No More, The Final Pact with the Devil Story." all Baines could tell" (p. 82). Since there do The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 60:2/ not seem to be many folktales—if any—which 357 (February 1981), 48-56. [Lewis, 50-52, 54,56.] stress an elfin script, let alone an odd one; A series of letters as a writer tries to get a pact- since by 1968 the popularity of The Lord of the with-the-devil story published (most of the editors' Rings was well established; and since Blish uses names are parodies of names in the science-fiction a form with a v, like Tolkien—Elvish. not field: e.g., Roderick Silvercog, editing Nude elfish—this passage is probably influenced by Dementions, for Robert Silverberg, editing New T o lk ie n . Dimensions, ,an anthology series); unless the writer In The Day After Judgment (After is capital­ can get his story published by a certain date, the ized in all appearances, including Blish's devil—with whom he has signed a pact—w ill take his "Afterword", p. 166), there is a direct refer­ soul to Hell (presumably—it is not spelled out). ence to Lewis in the first "Station" (chapter). The devil in this story takes the form of Bezel B. The demon who had said God was dead—Put Bob, running the Screwtape Literary Agency and Satanachia, also called Baphomet, the Sabbath representing the writer on all other sales; obviously Goat—had swallowed one of the humans in Ware's the Screwtape allusion is to some degree appropriate house. After the demon left (with a promise to for a story told in epistulary form. return), there is some discussion of this event; the priest who was originally intended as an B lish, James. Black Easter/The Day After observer comments, "The thing that called itself Judgment. With a New Introduction by David G. Screwtape let slip to Lewis that demons do eat Hartwell. Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. x + souls. But one can hardly suppose that that is 166 + 166 pp. (The two books here reprinted the end. I expect we w ill shortly know a lot more about the matter than we wish" (p. 19). are separately paginated.) [ L e w i s , i , 5 , 8 9 , 125; I I , 19, 134, 145; Tolkien, I , 82.1 ("The end” may be an anal pun.) There are two Blish considered this to be the second volume in references in the book to "Our Father Below" his "After Such Knowledge" thematic trilogy, (pp. 134, 145)—the first when Put Satanchia which consisted of Doctor M irabilis (1964), a summons th e m illio n a ir e t o H e ll, "Our F ath er historical novel about Roger Bacon; Black Easter; Below hath need of thee", and later when the man or, Faust Aleph-Null (1968) and The Day After comments on his summoning to the priest as they Judgment (1971), a fantasy novel with a contem- approach H ell's mouth. (The demons by this point porary setting (published as two "novels" but had set up an extrance to Hell, echoing Dante, forming one story); and A Case of Conscience in Death Valley, U.S.A.) Lewis seems to have (1958), a science-fiction novel about an unfallen been the inventor of the phrase "Our Father Below" alien race. so this is indebted to The Screwtape Letters. In Black Easter, a millionaire pays a black But Blish is deliberately blending his sources magician to release a number of demons onto earth together: for example, Satan's speech near the for one night; the situation gets out of control end of the book, despite his being described in and turns into Armageddon, for the old rules do three-headed Dantean terms, is in an imitation of not seem to apply. The reason, a demon tells the Miltonic blank verse. human p r o ta g o n is t a t th e end o f th e n o v e l, i s th a t "God is dead" (p. 165). This book is dedicated to Boase, Roger. The Origin ana Meaning of Courtly the memory of Lewis (p. 5) and it quotes two Love. With a "Foreword" by John Heath-Stubbs. passages from The Screwtape Letters, one being M anchester, England: Manchester U niversity Press, from their introduction, as an epigraph to the 1977. (Distributed in the U.S. by Rowman and fourth section of the novel (p. 125). At one L ittlefield of Totowa, New Jersey.) xii + 171 point, a priest (who has been admitted as an pp. Index. [Lewis, v ii, 1, *4n, 24, «27, 34-38, observer to the house of the evil magician, 4 2 , 5 2 , 58-59nn, 6 l n , 8 6 , 89-92, 113, 120, •153- Theron Ware, who at this point is causing the 154; Mathew, *108, *ll6n, *155; W illiams, »155. death of a man by magic) thinks "that he wap for­ Starred pages not in index.3 bidden, now as. before, even to pray for the soul Boase has investigated the major criticism on Court­ of the victim (or the patient, in Ware's anti- ' ly Love from the Renaissance on. His apnroach is septic Aristotelian terminology)" (p. 89). Since simple: the first chanter is a "Chronological sur­ Lewis had Screwtape use "patient" for the man vey of Courtly Love scholarship" (pp. 5-61) from MYTHLORE 31: Spring 1982 page 38

1500 to 1975; the second chapter abstracts "Theories and others who might have led him to qualify some of on the origin of Courtly Love" (pp. 62-99) from the his Ideas (p. 120). survey and discusses them under seven headings; the third chapter abstracts "Theories on the meaning of The Canadian C. S. Lewis Journal, No. 20 (August Courtly Love" (pp. 100-116) from the survey and dis­ 1980), 1-12. Edited by Stephen Schofield. cusses them under five headings; a "Conclusion" (pp. Contents: (a) W. R. Fryer, "Disappointment at 117-130) follows, and, after two appendices, "A Cambridge?", pp. 1-5. Fryer, who studied political selected bibliography" (pp. 140-166). Obviously, science under Lewis from 1935 to 1938 (or perhaps Boase Is Interested in the general theories about only part of that time), offers some reminiscences Courtly Love, rather than analyses of Individual of Lewis, with comments on the darker side of Lewis's works; thus, although John Lawlor's Patterns of Love imagination, as in the Head in That Hideous and Courtesy: Essays In memory of C. S. Lewis Is Strength; on Lewis's division from the administrative listed in the bibliography (p. 153), It is not cited officers at Magdalen College, Oxford, and from the in the book. Occasionally Boase misses an essay or general temper at Cambridge; and on his early review which would have helped him. For example, difference in style from most Oxford dons. (b) when he Is summarizing Peter Dronke's theory that Kathryn Lindskoog, "The Gift of Dreams," pp. 6-7. Courtly Love was and Is a universal experience of An excerpt on C. S. Lewis reprinted from Lindskoog's mankind, he says, "Chinese and Japanese poetry might The Gift of Dreams: A Christian View (1979); it have provided Dronke with further evidence" (p. 108). recounts eleven of Lewis's dreams and gives some of William Empson, In a review of The Allegory of Love— his comments on dreaming. (c) Minor items, p. 8. "Love and the Middle Ages", The Spectator, 157 (4 A reprinting from New Magazine Review, 2:4 (April September 1936), 389--writes, to contradict Lewis's 1980) of a review of The Canadian C. S. Lewis thesis of the originality of Courtly Love in Pro­ Journal; and "Small Error in Fine Book,- being vince, that Lewis "had only to open the Tale of some reprinted material which indicates one error Qcnjl to find the practice of courtly love In full in Walter Hooper's account of Lewis's life in blast in tenth-century Japan; it came, and It soon Eerdman's Handbook to the History of Christianity. went, with the conditions for it". (d) "Where?," p. 5T Four reprinted items (three Mathews is actually quoted on a similar, if of them one sentence long) which indicate that broader, point—"romantic love is possible In any Walter Hooper, despite seeking letters from Lewis age or place or milieu" (p. 108)—from a review of to be given the Bodleian Library, has not yet Dronke's Medieval Latin and the Rise of European deposited there the letters he received from Lewis Love Lyric (p. 116n). Mathews' review Is not listed in what he has described as a decade-long corres­ In the bibliography, but his "Marriage and amour pondence. (e) Minor item s, p. 10. "Newspaperman courtols In late fourteenth century England11 in Es­ Paul," being a summary and quotation from I Timothy says Presented to Charles Williams is (p. 155). 5:19-20 (presumably this is Schofield's Christian Boase gives fairly elaborate treatment to Lewis rationale for his continuing to point out Walter who "long remained the established authority on Hooper's failings); "Keats," being a citation from Courtly Love" (p. 120). In the chronological survey, and comments on an anecdote about Lewis's liking the basic treatment of The Allegory of Love is on fo r K eats, recounted in Humphrey C arpenter's The PP. 35-36—a summary of Lewis's general points in his Inklings; "Penguin out/Collins in," being a notice first chapter. Lewis also appears on the "Chrono­ that the British paperback edition of Narnian tales logical table of theories" on p. 27 under a "Feudal- Las shifted publishers, (f) "Letters," p. 11. Sociological" label, with a question mark for Lewis. Letters from Miss M. S., Mrs. Loring E llis, and The reason for the placement is because Lewis fol­ Penguin Books. (g) "Gripping virtuoso performance: lows the sociological description of the predominant Song of the Lion," p. 12. A positive review of number of men over women In medieval castles which Daniel Pearce's The Song of the Lion, a stage work was first advanced by Violet Paget (p. 24), although of dramatic readings of Lewis's life using seven Lewis Is directly following Alfred Jeanjoy (p. 5 8 , actors, reprinted from The Oxford Times, 4 July n. 6 5 ), who was influenced by Paget; the reason for 1980 (no pages given). the question mark Is that Lewis notes this condition wa3 not limited to Province, so it cannot be the CSL: The B u lle tin o f th e New York C. S. Lewis S o c ie - complete cause (p. 35). Later, Boase gives an ex­ ty, 12:11/143 (September 1981), 1-18. Edited by ample of Lewis's influence (p. 42) and a reaction Eugene McGovern. against him (p. 52). Boase notes that Lewis changed Contents: (a) Jerry Daniel, "Lewis and Chesterton: his mind about- the larges change In cultural history The Smell of Dew and Thunder", pp. 1-16. A lengthy In his "'De descrlptlone temporum'" (p. 59, n. 79); essay for CSL, not intended to break new ground but but Boase does not attempt to follow Lewis's other simply to compare the general tone of the two writ­ comments on Courtly Love—in his published letters, ers' works. Daniel has two major sections: the fo r example, or in The Four L oves. (Only The A lle ­ first, "The Sense of Wonder" (pp. 3-11), speaks of gory of Love Is listed In the bibliography, p. 155.) the two authors' wonder and delight in the world, In "Theories on the origin of Courtly Love", in life (with their use of the image of a dance), Lewis appears under the seventh type—"Feudal-Socio­ in mankind, and in the virtues; the second. "The logical" (pp. 89-90)—being cited for two of the Religion of Gratitude" (pp. 11-15), of their emphases eight theses arranged there: the Influence of "The on appreciation and on fun (in contrast to the des­ practice of arranged marriages" and the use of pair in much modern literature). The works by Lewis analogues to "The Feudal Contract". At this point, which are quoted or mentioned by title are "The Coun­ in Boase's evaluation of the Ideas presented, he try of the Blind", English Literature in the Six­ faults Lewis for having taken feudalism to be a sta­ teenth Century , The Discarded Image. Letters to Mal­ tic Institution, rather than seeing the social chang­ colm . "The Queen o f Drum", Prince C aspian. The S i l ­ es it was undergoing at the time of the troubadours ver Chair, Surprised by Joy. The Personal Heresy, (p. 91), and for making the faulty argument that The Case for Christianity, The Abolition of Man, "The utilitarian marriage must lead, if sexual love is to Weight of Glory", The Screwtape Letters, A Grief Ob­ be Idealized, to the Idealization of adultery (p. served , C h ristian Behaviour. The Four L oves, The 92). "This Clatter} argument is obviously falla­ Great Divorce, "Christianity and Literature", cious"—and Boase gives two reasons why it Is. "Christianity and Culture", and "A Confession", (b) In "Theories on the meaning of Courtly Love", "Report of the 143rd Meeting: September 11, 1981", Lewis Is incidentally cited (p._ 113) but seems to pp. 16-17. (c ) "Book Note", pp. 17-18. An extend­ have made no major contribution. In the "Conclusion", ed anecdote about a debate with Lewis at the Socratlc it Is pointed out that Lewis depended on older Club is printed from A. J. Ayers’ Part of My Life authorities—Gaston Paris and Alfred Jeanroy—when he (1977). (d) "Editor's Note", p. 18. wrote The Allegory of Love; he shows no evidence of knowing the then current studies of Johan Huizinga Mallorn, No. 13 (n.d. [copyright 1979] , 1-32. Ed- MYTHLORE 31: Spring 1982 page 39

ited by Susan Rule for The Tolkien Society. ("Pegasus shall fly"; called "Pegasus" on the con­ Inkling-related m aterial: (a) Jessica Yates, '"The tents page), p. 32. Fourteen free-verse lines, B attle of the Eastern F ield': A Commentary", pp. 3-5. usually rhymed in couplets (once a quatrain), which, Yates shows that Tolkien's schoolboy poem "The Bat­ except for its first two lines, uses Tolkienesque tle of the Eastern Field", celebrating an upcoming imagery; the rhythm is mostly a Jog-trot of dimeter rugby match, was in part a parody of Thomas Macaul­ lines. The poem celebrates the passing of the Elves ay's "The B attle of Lake Regillus", one of the Lays and Gandalf over the Sea. of Ancient Rome, including a complete repetition of two lines. Yates also suggests an area of Investi­ O'Donoghue, Noel D. "Chesterton's Marvellous gation—the names given the characters—and points Boyhood." The Chesterton Review, 6:1 (Fall- to the substitution of Germanic terms for Roman in W inter 1979-1980), 101-115. CLewis and Tolkien's version. (b) Ruud Verkerk, "G aladriel", Tolkien, 101, 115.3 p . 6 . A full-page drawing, oval in shape, in which An essay on Chesterton's retention (or regaining) G aladriel's face (frontal view) and hair appear, and of a Romantic childish point of view. O'Donoghue a flower on top of her head, (c) Tom Shippey, re­ starts from a Chesterton essay on Sir W alter Scott view of An Introduction to Elvish, ed. Jim Allan, which points to "the boyish quality of Scott's pp. 7-10 CLewis, 83. Shippey points out that A llan's romanticism." O'Donoghue takes this as revealing book provides the data for a study of Tolkien's "lin­ something about Chesterton. "Moreover, I would guistic aesthetic", since it shows clearly, for ex­ venture to say that it places Chesterton in a kind ample, the relationship of Quenya to Finnish and al­ of historical context, relates him to a group of so indicates the ending of words with vowels or English w riters, a group that excludes Shaw and dental-alveolar consonants in the two languages. excludes Belloc, that includes C. S. Lewis and Likewise, the book's tracing of language changes be­ Tolkein [sic] (in the next generation) and tween Quenya and Sindarin prepares the critic to un­ excludes Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene" (p. 101). derstand part of the "reality" of Tolkien's works At the end of his essay, O'Donoghue points to some more clearly. Shippey points out a few errors—a lim its of this sim plicity: "It is insular, missed derivation of Holman in one essay, and a dogmatic and, however quietly and tolerantly, couple of confusions between sk, sli, and sc. (d) im peralistic. It would impose its own ethics and Michael Henry, "M allorn Crossword", pp. 12-13, with its own vision on all men everywhere." Thus the answers printed upside down on p. 28 ; all words Lewis, "if I understand him, ...would have the are drawn from Tolkien's works, (e) Jonathan Simons, whole world (especially theosophists and "Gim li's Axe", pp. l4-15. Most of the short essay anthroposophists) Anglo-Catholic. Tolkein Csicl . is a comparison of the effectiveness of double-edged of course, created his own empire, and did so with and single-edged axes; Simons decides Gimli had one such intensity and thoroughness that there are few of the latter. (f) Brin Dunsire, "The Specula of people of imagination who can resist its spell" M iddle-earth", pp. 16-20. Dunsire discusses the (p. 115). O'Donoghue also gives an example from palantiri , the Mirror of G aladriel, and, briefly, George MacDonald on the lim its of this the Mirrormere. On the first, he gives their powers Romanticism. Typical of this type of essay, there and a (sometimes conjectural) history, on the basis is no attempt to provide specific evidence for of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion; he assertions—such as that on Lewis’s Anglo- w rites before the publication of Unfinished Tales Catholicism; the approach is that of the man of with its final note on "The Palantfrl'1. A three- letters, not the scholar. paragraph survey of the M irror of G aladriel follows. Besides Tolkien's works, Dunsire footnotes two Portraits of J. R. R. Tolkien. New York: Internation- critical works and refers to some fan w ritings on al Polygonics ("The Underground Jigsaw Puzzle"), his topic. (g) A1 Hall, "'My Preciousss!", p. 21. No. BP134, 1977. A drawing of Gollum's head and right hand, (h) Pat A boxed 15"x21" pigsaw puzzle. Three photographs Masson, "Not an Orderly N arrator: Inaccuracies and of Tolkien (copyright 1977 by B illett Potter) ar­ Ambiguities in the Early Chapters of the Red Book of ranged with a color photograph of Tolkien in a book- Westmarch", pp. 23-28. A discussion of textual dif­ lined study across the top, and two black-and-white ferences between the Second and Third Editions of photographs of Tolkien sitting beneath a tree (one The Hobbit, played in fannish terms in which Bilbo a close-up) below. The puzzle itself is slightly Baggins is the author and Tolkien is merely the trimmed on the right compared to the reproduction translator. The changes, however, are legitim ate of the photographs on the cover of the box. enough, and some of the discussion may be m entally transposed to reasons for Tolkien's alterations. Pryce-Jones, David (ed.). Evelyn Waugh and his (i) Denis Bridoux, "On the French Translation of World. Boston: L ittle, Brown, 1973. vii + 248 Tolkien's Works", pp. 29-30. Bridoux reports on pp. [Cecil, 120; Fox, 16.] m istranslations and m isprints in Le Selgnleur des A collection of sixteen essays, with photographs. Anneaux, on two pages of Tolkien's script reproduced In Roger Fulford’s "At Lancing" (pp. 15-21), Waugh's with Les Aventures de Tom Bombadll, and on the poor public school is described. Fulford says, "Adam translation of the latter. He mentions Bilbo le Fox ... endeared him self to us all by combining the Hobbit, which is a good translation, and Faerie, priesthood with command of the OTC" (p. 16)—presum­ containing versions of Tree and Leaf, Smith of ably O fficers' Training Corps; Fulford, in the next Wootton M ajor, and Farmer G iles of Ham, which he had sentence, says the reputation of the OTC gave Lancing investigated (beyond the dust Jacket, which mis­ part of its success in the boys' eyes at the time. spelled Sllm arllllon). (J) Gordon MacLellan, "A (A photograph of a Lancing School group appears on Changeling’s Words to Mrs. V. Chapman", p. 30. A p . 28 , but the only person with a clerical collar fourteen-line, free-verse poem, with an irregular seems too old to be Fox at this tim e.) rhyme scheme (and three unrhymed lines), praising The Cecil reference is to a photograph of Osbert in Tolkienesque terms Vera Chapman's fantasy novels; Sitw ell, Lord David Cecil, and Waugh (p. 120); it Chapman is referred to by her Tolkien Society pseudo­ is labelled "Staying at M ells", which is otherwise nym of Belladonna Took, for example. (k) C. Tolley, unexplained. "A Chronology of the First Age", pp. 31-32. A list of dates and events from the beginning of the Years of the Sun, with asterisks on those dates which are Rahn, Suzanne. Children's Literature: An Annotated certain, not dependent on other dates. The chrono­ Bibliography of the History and C riticism . New logy in Robert Foster's The Complete Guide to Middle- York: Garland Publishing, 1981. xxvii + A52 no. earth is generally fuller; the two are in rough Index of names. $50. [Barfield, item 886: C. agreement. Tolley has a note at the end of his list S. Lewis, pp. x iii, xv, xx, xxviil-n, items 17, about a missing forty years near the end of the 2 1 4 , 256, 2 5 7 , 706, 883- 808, 016, 1286; W. H. period. (1) Gordon MacLellan, an untitled poem Lewis, item 895; Tolkien, no. xiv, xv, xx, items MYTHLORE 31: Spring 1982 page 40

239, 247, 254, 256, 257, 2 6 0 , 2 6 2 , 706, 874, 893, ton] —reads the passage from Perelandra In which 1140-1154, 1286; Williams, items 257, 1286.] the fact of being male and female is treated as only Rahn divides her excellent bibliography into four a local manifestation of a greater spiritual princi­ s e c tio n s . The f i r s t i s "Aims and D e fin itio n s" (o f ple. As is often the case in discussions, the point Children's Literature), items 1-30; thi 3 in clu d es is made and then generally dropped, although Reta Lewis's "On Three Ways of Writing for Children" [Finger] seems to refer to It six speeches later, (item 17). The second section, "Historical Studies", "I like that poetic difference between masculine and items 31-204, contains no explicit references to the feminine, because when you can't pin it down exactly Inklings. However, a number of items in this section then you don't have to be a certain way. Then there and the previous discuss fantasy, and so there are is no real lim it to what you can be or do as a woman probably references to Lewis and Tolkien in them (pp. 9-10). which have escaped specific annotation. The third section, "Studies of Genres", items 205-416, has a subsection on fantasy (items 2 3 8 - Reilly, Catherine W. (compiler). English Poetry of 2 6 2 ), w hich, among oth er works, in clu d es C. N. Man- the First World War: A Bibliography. New York: lo v e ’s Modern Fantasy (on both Lewis and T o lk ie n ), S t. M artin’s P r e ss, 1978. x x x ii + 402 pp. CLew- Mythlore, and Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories"; Lewis i s , 6 , 15-16, 155, 200; Williams, 337.3 is also mentioned in the earlier subsection of ani­ Lewis Is listed for Spirits in Bondage (p. 200), mal stories. with a cross reference from his pseudonym for that The fourth section (misnumbered III on p. 137), volume, Clive Hamilton (p. 155); Williams, for "Studies of Authors", items 417-1328, makes up the Divorce and Poem3 of Conformity.(p. 337). Lewis is bulk of the book. The section on Lewis, items 883- identified as having served as a Lieutenant in the 8 9 8 , contains Lewis's Of Other Worlds. Surprised by Somerset Light Infantry (p. 200). Reilly also Joy, two collections of his letters, and a single lists "C. Hamilton's" appearance in two anthologies letter (on Narnia) in a Journal; three books and one of war poetry, one of them published In three essay on the Narnia stories; and eight more general different editions (pp. 6 , 1 5 - 1 6 ). items on Lewis, including CSL: The Journal of the New York C. S. Lewis Society (one of the other two Scanlan, James J. "The Mineralogy of Middle-Earth". Lewis journals is mentioned in the annotation of Rock and Gem, 11:12 (December 1981), 20-21. (Wit CSL). Barfield is mentioned only for his introduc­ an illustration—the signature seems to be "Torie tion to Gibb's Light on C. S. Lewis; evidently Rahn —based on the TV Frodo.) did not find at least two significant essays on The Scanlan surveys some of the minerals and gems of Silver Trumpet (cf. p. xxiv), so he does not appear Middle-earth—m ithril, silima, the Palantiri, the as a children's author himself. crystals of Aglaroni, the metal of Anduril, the The section on Tolkien, items 1140-1154, sets as Arkenstone, and Nimphelos. For example, about the i t s lim its The Hobbit and The Father Christmas L et­ penultimate item: "White, translucent stones do not ters. ("Is The Lord of the Rings children's litera­ rank high on present-day lists of precious gems, wit ture?"—p. x x .) The f if t e e n item s in clu d e The Fa- the possible exception of moonstone, a feldspar note ther Christmas Letters, one article on The Hobbit, for its silver sheen and silky luster. Since Tolkei six books of criticism with chapters, essays, or EsicJ Indicates the Arkenstone was mined from the su b sta n tia l comments on The H obbit, and such other heart of the mountain, he lends credence to the hypo items as Jim Allan's (misspelled A llen's) An Intro­ thesis it was a species of feldspar" (p. 21). [The duction to Elvish. An unusual emphasis in two items bibliographer thanks George and Mary Jane Mingus for is on Tolkien's drawings: the Ashmolean Museum's a copy of this item .] Catalogue of Drawings by J. R. R. Tolkien is includ­ ed, but not Tolkien's Pictures itself (other 1979 books appear); the second item is Nancy-Lou Patter­ Timmerman, John H. (ed.). "A Forum on the son's "Tree and Leaf: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Teaching of Religion and Literature." Visual Image" (1974). Christianity and Literature, 29:3 (Spring Lewis and Tolkien (once with Williams) also ap­ 1980), 25-70. [Lewis, 43, 51-52, 54-55, 58-59, pear in other items. For example, Alan Garner's 60n; Williams, 53, 54, 58, 60n.] attack on their type of other-worldly fantasy is There are ten contributors of nine essays to listed , "Real Mandrakes in Real Gardens" (1968) as this forum, but only two mention the Inklings. item 706, and Humphrey Carpenter's The Inklings (a) John R. May, "The Way of Comparative World ( 1 9 7 8 ) appears as item 1 286 in the subsection on View," pp. 42-44, mentions teaching of the Adam groups of authors. Lewis’s "Preface" to George and Eve story (Genesis 2-3) and Perelandra to­ MacDonald: An Anthology (1946) is listed in the gether (p. 43). (b) Gene Edward Veith, "Whiskey MacDonald s e c tio n , item 9 1 6 . and Religion: Theoretical and Practical Notes on Although the Inkling scholar w ill not find many Teaching Literature and Religion," pp. 50-61, surprises in this volume, nevertheless the Garner praises Lewis's "On the Reading of Old Books" for and Patterson items mentioned above escaped listing its historical approach—which was a help in the in West's revised Tolkien Criticism checklist. For objectivity needed to teach a literature and other items on Lewis and Tolkien not listed in religion course in a state institution (p. 51); Christopher and Ostling or West, see items 8 9 0 , 893, Williams' distinction between arbitrary and 897, 8 9 8 , 899. Item 893 is Lewis's Of Other Worlds, natural symbols for an approach to Bunyan's but West misses the brief references to The Hobbit Pilgrim's Progress (p. 53); and Williams' Figure of Beatrice for the study of Dante's Inferno in "On Stories", stressed here. Items 8 9 7 , 8 9 8 , and 899 have been reviewed In Mythlore, although not yet (p- 54). Veith explains the interrelationship, listed in this "Inklings Bibliography". The one in Lewis, of reason. Romanticism, and Christianity (as in the subtitle to The Pilgrim's Regress— remaining item—no. 8 9 0 —Is David Holbrook's "The Problem of C. S. Lewis" (1973), with a reply to it although Veith is not lim iting Romanticism to listed in Rahn's annotation. As suggested above, Sehnsucht, as Lewis is there); in his course, a number o f the item s Included in th is book may have Veith used mainly The Great Divorce, for its tie references to Lewis or Tolkien which are not men­ to Dante's work, and The Screwtape Letters, tioned in the annotations; certainly this is true of treated as an epistulary novel (pp. 54-55). He Roger Lancelyn Green's Tellers of Tales (item 1297). mentioned the Inklings generally as tying together reason and Romanticism (p. 55). Veith tried teaching Williams' Descent into H ell, which "Reclaiming Our Sexuality" (a transcription of a "typically electrified one or two students in each tape-recorded discussion). Daughters of Sarah. class"; he also used Williams' distinction between 7:1 (January/February 1982), 8-12 [Lewis, 93. The Way of Affirmation and The Way of Rejection A discussion of sexuality from a Christian feminist to distinguish the religious approaches of Lewis perspective; one of the participants—LoraBeth [Nor­ and Flannery O'Connor (p. 58). Veith also MYTHLORE 31: Spring 1982 page 41 briefly discusses the teaching of Perelandra and, reference and should not have received an item without giving its title, one of Lewis's non- number; the London Times obituary of Tolkien fiction books (p. 60, footnote 9). (item 11-533, p. 105} contains the statem ent that "C. S. Lewis is said to have written most of it"— West, Richard C. (com piler). Tolkien Criticism : this authorship could have been corroborated by An Annotated C hecklist. Rev. ed. Kent, Ohio: reference to W alter Hooper's revised bibliography The Kent State University Press (The Serif of Lewis, D-146; a cross-reference in the Series, No. 39), 1981. xvi + 177 pp. F estscrift edited by Mary Salu and Robert T. LBarfield, 43, 58, 108; C ecil, 31, 69; C. S. Farrell (item 11-590, p. 115) to the London Times Lewis, x, 6, 10, 18, 25-26, 29, 33-35, 38, obituary gives the item number as 11-534 instead 43-44, 47-48, 54, 56-57. 59, 62, 65-66, 69- of 11-533. West lists masters theses in this 70, 74-75, 79, 81, 83-85, 91-94, 97, 102, 105, second section, but this is an area in which it 108, 111-113, 115-116, 130-135, 137-138, 140; is almost im possible to be complete, for, despite W. H. Lewis, 81-82; Christopher Tolkien, x, Masters A bstracts, there is no complete national x ii, 11-12, 87, 94-95, 99, 107, 126; W illiams, listin g of such works. West m isses Linda Maurer's 6, 18, 26, 29, 33-34, 43-44, 54, 56-57, 65, "M ythological and Folklore M otifs in The Lord of 69, 74-75, 91-92, 94, 97, 102, 108-109, 113, the Rings" (M.A. thesis, Lamar U niversity, 115, 131, 133, 137, 140; Inklings generally, Beaumont, Texas, May 1976), Elizabeth McClimon's 29, 33-34, 57, 69, 125, 130, om itting reviews [sic] A llen's "The#Fellowship of M erlin: The of Carpenter’s The Inklings .1 Role of the Sorcerer in The Once and Future King A revision by West of his 1970 book of the same and The Lord of the Rings11 (M.A. th esis, Baylor title. The general nature of revised edition is U niversity, Waco, Texas, August 1978), and no indicated by the first section—a primary checklist doubt others. (A partial listing is better than of Tolkien's works—having expanded from 38 to 83 no listin g, of course.) items; the second section—a secondary checklist, Section "III. Book Reviews" (pp. 143-158) is the criticism of Tolkien—has expanded from 196 to divided into lists of reviews of sixteen of 755 item s. The third section—book reviews—has Tolkien's works (the three volumes of The Lord of added review listin gs of secondary works, as w ell the Rings are listed together, with parenthetical as expanding the listin g of reviews of Tolkien's indication of which volume or volumes are being books. The index of secondary titles has been reviewed) and of reviews of thirty-two critical joined by four other indices. volumes on Tolkien. In most cases. West gives Section "I. Tolkien's W ritings, Arranged first cross-references to reviews listed in Chronologically" (pp. 1-12) is the basic Section II and then other reviews listed bibliography of Tolkien's works, including the here with fu ll publication information; a m aterials listed in Carpenter's appendix to few listings are entirely of one type or the Tolkien and bringing it up to date. West m isses other. Unfortunately, West never indicates three poems that Tolkien published under a the basis upon which reviews are chosen for one pseudonym: "Progress in Bimble Town", type of listin g or the other; as indicated "Fastitocalon" (not precisely the poem in The above, some of the reviews in the second section Adventures of Tom Bombadil) , and "Jumbo". He have no annotation. does not list Tolkien's drawing of a mountain Section "IV. Indexes" (pp. 159-177) contains published in Becker's The Tolkien Scrapbook, and a title index to Tolkien's writings (with one or he has no cross reference to the original work by more cross references to Section I and, in the Tolkien published in Carpenter's Tolkien and The case of books, to the reviews in Section III); Inklings (e.g., the long, complete poem to Charles an author index to anthologies, books, and W illiams in the latter.) monographs on Tolkien (with one or more cross- Section "II. C ritical Works on Tolkien" (pp. references to Section II); a title index to 13-142) is the titular section of this book. It critical works on Tolkien (with cross-references is a substantial guide to the criticism on to Section II and, in the case of books, to the Tolkien, the best available. Unlike the first reviews in Section III); an author index of edition, West does not star the items he thinks twenty-seven doctoral dissertations and m aster's of particular importance; objectivity has become a theses (with cross-references to Section II); goal. West does not list poetry or fiction based and a title and name index to twelve publications on Tolkien's works, calendars, music, film s or and seven groups which are Tolkien related. The film discussions, fanzines, or news items on fifth division is mainly a listing of selected Tolkien, although a few such items get brief fan groups and their publications. W est's mention because they appear in or are related to introduction to this volume (p. x iii) indicates works which West analyzes; the purpose is strictly the problems with the listin g of fanzines; but a record of the criticism . As with the first for future editions it would be useful to list section, most of the items have annotations. fanzine titles in Section II when a library However, tw enty-five have no annotations, not even holding the complete series of that title can the "Not seen" of other items. Of these twenty- also be cited. in addition to the library, the five, eleven are reviews—if they were not worth annotation should give the date of the first and annotating there seems to be no reason for them to last issues, the total number of issues, and a have been included in this second section at all general indication of the type of m aterial (there are other reviews just listed in the third p u b l i s h e d . section). Of the other fourteen items which have no annotations, some have titles which are self-explanatory and some do not (e.g.. Gene W olfe's "On the Tolkien Toll-Free F ifties Freeway", PATRONS item 11-738, p. 139). The following corrections to the second section You are invited to become a Patron of Mythlore. Patrons may be listed . In The Tolkien Scrapbook, ed. help improve its outreach in Promotion and Publicity by Alida Becker (item 11-37, p. 19), two poems by donating $15 or more above the price of subscription. They Ruth Berman are om itted; James Edward H iggins' are listed for four issues for this support. You may show "Five Authors of M ystical Fancy for Children: A your concerned support and become a Patron by writing to C ritical Study" (item 11-276, p. 65) misses the the Editor, Glen H. GoodKnight (address on page 2). book publication of this dissertation, as Beyond Words: M ystical Fancy in Children's Literature George Colvin — Riverside, CA (New York: Teachers College Press [.Teachers Edna Montemayor -- Chicago, IL C ollege, Columbia U niversity], 1970); Walter Gerald M. Price -- Thousand Oaks, CA Hooper's listing (item 11-285, p. 66) is a cross Grace E. Funk — I.umby, B.C.