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Download Download Issue 59 • Winter 2018 MallornThe Journal of the Tolkien Society Mallorn The Journal of the Tolkien Society Issue 59 • Winter 2018 Editor: Rosalinda Haddon editorial Production: Michael Afford 4 Rosalinda Haddon A very fond farewell… Cover art: Stones, slopes and articles a twisted knot of hills by John 6 Giovanni C. Costabile Fairy marriages in Tolkien’s works Cockshaw (www.from 14 Lawrence Krikorian Realism in fantasy: The Lord of the Rings as “history . mordortothemistymountains. feigned” com) 18 Dale Nelson The Lovecraft Circle and the Inklings: The “Mythopoeic Gift” of Back cover: The river of long and restless roots by John H. P. Lovecraft Cockshaw 33 Sebastián Alejandro Freigeiro Beryl, more than just a token? Inside: Gordon Palmer: 34 Eric A. Lynch Tolkien’s Kingdoms of the West: Founded in History The Maiden Nimrodel (p. 3), 49 Jean Chausse The healing of Théoden or “a glimpse of the Final Victory” Rivendell under the Stars (p. 52 Nancy Bunting Checking the Facts 65); John Cockshaw: Farewell 57 Nicholas J. S. Polk A Holy Party: Holiness in The Hobbit to the Shire (p. 59), The Mirror and the Golden Wood (p. 67); submissions G.A.Brady: Morning Over The 5 Letters to the Editor Ettenmoors (p. 5), The Great 66 Guide for Authors East Road (p. 33), The Barrow Downs - The Fog Rises (p. 41), The Tombs Lie Empty (p. poetry 42) Hobbiton (p. 56); Helen 64 Kaleb Kramer The Long Defeat Burke: untitled (p. 10), The 64 Peter Beaumont The Vow Shire (p. 25); Alexander Genov: The Shadow of the reviews Past (p. 15), A Journey in the 65 Jean Chausse Laughter in Middle-earth: Humor in and around the works of Dark (p. 16), The Battle of the JRR Tolkien edited by Thomas Honegger and Maureen F. Mann Pelennor Fields (p. 49). Mallorn is the journal of The Tolkien Society. Published once a year, it considers reviews, scholarly articles, creative essays, poetry and artwork. Contact the Editor if you are interested in submitting an item for a future issue. All enquiries and manuscripts should be sent by email to [email protected] The Tolkien Society is an international organisation, registered as a charity in England and Wales, dedicated to furthering interest in the life and works of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien CBE (1892–1973). Founded in 1969, Tolkien remains its President in perpetuo and his daughter, Priscilla Tolkien, became its honorary Vice President in 1986. Alongside Mallorn, the Society publishes the bimonthly bulletin Amon Hen. In addition to meetings of local groups (known as ‘Smials’), the Tolkien Society organises several UK-based events each year: Springmoot (including the AGM and Annual Dinner) in April, the Seminar in July, and Oxonmoot in September. Visit www.tolkiensociety.org for further information. Mallorn ISSN 0308-6674 Copyright © 2018 by The Tolkien Society www.tolkiensociety.org All contributors to this volume assert their moral right to be identified as the author of their individual contributions. Each contribution remains the intellectual property of its respective author and is published by the Tolkien Society, an educational charity (number 273809) registered in England and Wales, under a non- exclusive licence. All rights reserved by the Tozzn Society. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the copyright holder. Nor can it be circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without similar condition including this condition being imposed on a subsequent purchaser. Mallorn Issue 59 Winter 2018 3 editorial A very fond farewell… Four years ago, I assumed the role of contributed to the fullness and reality of the editor of Mallorn. It has been a grand secondary world he created. adventure. I have had the pleasure of communicating with some incredible Most of all I have come to appreciate our Tolkien scholars and writers and others readers and all the contributors to Mallorn, who are simply passionate about J.R.R. for their passion and interest in all things Tolkien’s thoughts and writings. Along this Tolkien. Our volunteer reviewers have been journey, I have discovered that interest incredibly available whenever called upon. in Tolkien is not limited by academics I wish to thank each one for all their efforts or professional discipline. Mythologists, over the years. Rosalinda (Ro) astrophysicists, nurses, psychologists, Haddon philosophers, teachers, researchers and It is now time for me to turn over the Editor others have all found something in Tolkien’s editorship to a new volunteer. I cannot leave work that fascinates and speaks to them. the role without thanking Mike and Shaun Age is equally unimportant. I have heard for all their work and encouragement, and from high school, middle school, and all of you for being such avid readers and college students as well as retirees and all contributors. I hope whoever assumes ages in between. this position in the future will allow me to remain connected as a reviewer. Until One of the things that has been so a new person is named, please send all amazing to me is how many themes, your correspondence and submissions to motifs, and concepts, folks have found [email protected]. in Tolkien’s stories. There have been so many interpretations of aspects of the It saddens me to leave as editor, but it is legendarium. I found myself often wishing time for me to begin another journey. I will I could send some of these to J.R.R.T. to see miss you all. Thank you for this wonderful what he would say about it all. opportunity. It has been both a pleasure and an honor to have been editor of this And I mustn’t forget our artists and magnificent Journal. poets. The poems have been inspirational and have provided a whole other sense or Namárië picture of places and events in Middle- earth. We have received a great deal of artwork over the years from all over the world. One of the unique aspects of Mallorn has been the inclusion of this art. It is appropriate and a tribute to Tolkien. Many Tolkien Rosalinda (Ro) Haddon readers had no idea that he was such a Editor talented artist and of how much his artwork [email protected] 4 Mallorn Issue 59 Winter 2018 letters Letters to the Editor : Dear Rosalinda, simple check of dates should indicate that it’s not true. She ….I have two misprints to tell you about, for the Errata didn’t have enough time to go to Zanzibar. Perhaps the idea you might put into the next issue. On page 35 it’s Dickon came about because she worked for a charity which was not Dicken in the Secret Garden…Also on page 35 you have sending materials to Zanzibar. And maybe, as Nancy Bunt- Albion twice instead of Alboin. Albion is an old name for ing suggests, she played up the idea. Sadly, the numbering Britain, and Alboin was a king of the Lombards…Finally… on Bunting’s notes seems to have become scrambled. on page 20…the author has written Faramir of Rohan when Again, Mallorn has much to recommend it. But it will be it should read Gondor. cited by scholars, so please get the facts right! Jessica Yates Nancy Martsch Dear Rosalinda, Dear Ro, What follows is a belated letter of comment on Mallorn I am thrilled to receive the new issue of Mallorn, which No 58, Winter 17. A good issue in general. I greatly enjoyed looks great. the artwork, especially the superb pen-and-ink renderings Just one thing, though – where it says in the front “Meet by GA Brady: ‘tis almost a dying art. But Mallorn No58 con- our reviewer,” I am referred to as “he”. We are living in a time tains a distressing number of errors of fact. John Carswell of many gender options, but I am definitely female and my writes “Effoliation’ has to do with the removal or fall of preferred pronoun, as it is called, is “she/her/hers”… leaves from a plant.” (p 12) But “effoliation” can also mean Also, the Khatib Chair was a one-year appointment in “to open into leaf”, which is probably what Tolkien meant. 2016, ad my correct title is the one given…on page 44, “Pro- And why do writers insist upon interpolating war into fessor Emerita of Religious Studies, St. Francis College.” Tolkien’s writing? “…like unto the prisoner of war escap- Kusumita Pedersen ing form the enemy’s prison (Tree and Leaf 60).” (p12, my emphasis) -No, Tolkien writes only the “escape of the pris- oner”: not “war”, not “enemy”. And again, “The old corn-mill Dear Rosalinda, now makes weapons for war.’ (p26, my emphases). Where I have just received this year’s Mallorn and what a fine does the writer get this information? Nowhere, not in the issue it is too, full of interesting bits and pieces, some of text not in the drafts in The History of Middle-earth, does which I still have to digest. It was nice to discover some of Tolkien ever say what the re-purposed mill made, much less my artwork among its pages, something for which I would that it made “weapons of war”. like to say thank you for including, it was kind of you. As for Mabel Tolkien’s being a missionary in Zanzibar: a Gordon Palmer Mallorn Issue 59 Winter 2018 5 article Fairy marriages in Tolkien’s works GIOVANNI C.
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