Volume 21 Number 1 Article 9 Summer 7-15-1995 An Inklings Bibliography (55) Joe R. Christopher Wayne G. Hammond 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. and Hammond, Wayne G. (1995) "An Inklings Bibliography (55)," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 21 : No. 1 , Article 9. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol21/iss1/9 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]. 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Tolkien — Ake Bertenstam, pp. 204-404. In Swedish and English. Wayne G. Hammond, 30 Talcott Road, Fully half of this number of Arda is occupied with Berten- Williamstown, MA 01267; C.S. Lewis and Charles stam's latest supplement to his indispensable bibliog­ Williams — Dr. J.R.Christopher,EnglishDepart- raphy of works by and about Tolkien, covering the years ment,Tarleton StateUniversity,Stephenville,TX 76402. 1987-1990, with additions and corrections for earlier years. He has made changes to the way certain kinds of entries Arda 1988-1991. Ed. Beregond, Anders Stenstrom. Upsala: are presented, and both editorial and typographical Arda-sallskapet, 1994.xviii + 404 pp. [Tolkien] changes to im prove clarity. The size of the present supple­ ment—which Bertenstam notes could have been larger, The latest number of the Journal Arda, covering four but Arda was already very full and already delayed—at­ years, contains: tests both to the ever-expanding body of Tolkien studies "Beowulf— A Work of Art" by Andreas Haarder, pp. and to additional printed and electronic sources of infor­ 1-22. With a summary in Danish. The essay, a chapter mation now available to the bibliographer. [WGH] reprinted from Haarder's 1975 dissertation, Beowulf: The Day, David. Tolkien's Ring. Appeal o f a Poem, discusses Tolkien's British Academy lec­ Illustrated by Alan Lee. ture, "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," which London: HarperCollins, 1994.183 pp. + 12 color plates. "marks the beginning of a new age in Beowulf criticism" (p. Day attempts to discuss Tolkien's 'sources of inspira­ 6). Haarder also touches briefly on the affinity between tion for his epic fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings," Beowulf and The Lord of the Rings. following on the path (ancient now in the history of "Skonhet och fara och sorg [Beauty and Peril and Sor­ Tolkien studies, and potentially misleading) of Lin Car­ row]: en tankevav hos Tolkien" by Beregond, Anders ter's 1969 Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings”. In Stenstrom, pp. 24-51. With a summary in English. Day's investigation, "the symbol of the Ring is of primary importance. Through understanding its meaning and sig­ "Tolkien's Conception of Evil: An Anthropological nificance, we can begin to understand how Tolkien's The Perspective" by Chris Seeman, pp. 52-70. With a summary Lord of the Rings is the result of an ancient story-telling in Swedish. tradition that dates back to the dawn of Western culture' "Mordor: Empire of Evil or Decline of a Model?" by (p. 11). He begins, in chapter 1 ("Tolkien's M ind"), with a Sebastien Ferenczi, pp. 72-79. With a summary in Swedish. superficial statement on Tolkien's debts to myth and leg­ end, and his desire to "make a body of more or less "The Hero Stereotype and Its M odifications in The Lord connected legend" which he could dedicate to Eng­ of the Rings" by Jadwiga Wegrodzka, pp. 80-91. With a land—of course this was not The Lord o f the Rings, but "The summary in Swedish. Silmarillion" broadly considered. "The Clerkes Compleinte Yet Again: A Note on The criticism of superficiality is deserved by the rest of Maystryes" by Nils-Lennart Johannesson, pp. 92-95. With Day's book as well. In his examination of rings as symbols a summary in Swedish. Johannesson disputes T.A. Ship- and as used for divination and magic, he looks at Norse pey's view on maystres as a probable error for maystryes in mythology, especially the myth of Odin's ring; at the Tolkien's Chaucer pastiche "The Clerkes Compleinte" Volsunga Saga-, at Arthurian and Carolingian legends; at (Arda 1986). Celtic, Saxon, Greek, Roman, biblical, and Oriental myths; "The Years' Work in Tolkien Studies," pp. 96-198. A at alchemy; and, at excessive length, at the Nibelungenlied. chronicle and report, primarily in Swedish, of Tolkien-re­ That work figures in two of Day's chapters, and in yet lated events in 1988-1991, by Beregond, Anders Stenstrom, another chapter he discusses and summarizes Wagner's Morlug, Mattias Wahlen, and Gilrandir Sjofararen; and related Ring cycle of operas. reviews in English and Swedish, with abstracts in Swedish Day's final chapter concerns how The Lord of the Rings and English, of numerous books by and about Tolkien, is seen by its readers, especially the image of the Ring as a including vols. 6-9 of The History of Middle-earth (reviewed nuclear bomb—a relationship which Tolkien denied in his by Douglas A. Anderson) and several essay collections. foreword to the second edition of The Lord of the Rings. These are followed by Swedish and English summaries of Despite Day's stated concentration on that work, refer­ letters to Arda. ences to The Silmarillion abound in his book—necessarily pAC^e 62 Issue 79 J0UCDCDeR 1995 m a o n n o s e so, and which demonstrate that one cannot easily divorce pictures between 186 and 187 is a standard one of Williams.] The Lord o f the Rings from the larger context of Tolkien's Heath-Stubbs' autobiography does tell the story of his mythology. life and does say a few things about his poetry— mainly Alan Lee's illustrations are partly in black and white and the process of getting it published. But it is mainly an partly in color. Some illustrate Tolkien's works. [WGH] anecdotal account of the people he has known. The fifth chapter, "Queen's College, Oxford" (58-85), describes his Fulweiler, Howard W. "The Other Missing Link: experiences in Oxford during World War II; most of his Owen Barfield and the Scientific Imagination." references to the Inklings occur because they were lectur­ Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 46:1 (Fall 1993): 39-54. ing there then. Fulweiler is essentially summing up Barfield's ideas on Of the male lecturers in English, the most prominent evolution, with its intellectual background, in order to were Coghill, Professor David Nichol Smith and C. S. make it known to more readers; this is not a critique of Lewis. There was also Lord David Cecil, but he tended Barfield. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant essay. The first part, to lecture on Victorian subjects which most of us did not have to study. (62) with its discussion of western mankind's alienation from nature, follows mainly Saving the Appearances. In the mid­ Heath-Stubbs attended Lewis's lectures "A Prolegomena dle of the essay appears a short dialogue, with a speech to Mediaeval Literature" and, as a postgraduate student, each by a Darwinian, a Creationist, and Barfield, with "his seminars on textual criticism" (62-63). The few com­ Barfield pointing out how both of the others are picturing ments about Lewis which Heath-Stubbs makes seem gen­ nature as a machine. The end of the essay turns to the last erally correct although one might quibble; moreover, he chapter of Saving the Appearances with its hopes for a "final errs in saying Till We Have Faces was written after Joy participation" of human beings in nature. [JRC] Davidman's death (63), he probably overstates the influ­ ence of George MacDonald on The Lion, the Witch and the Garlands of Fantasy: Garland, Linda and Roger. Wardrobe (63), he is wrong in saying Lewis ar­ The Art of Linda & Roger Garland. T ext by ranged for Charles Williams to receive an hon­ N igel Suckling. Limpsfield, Surrey: Paper Tiger, orary M.A. from Oxford—although that has 1994. 128 pp. [Tolkien [1], [2], [5], 6, 36, [55J-56, been several times printed (64)— and, later, 82-105,110-11] he picks up incorrect information, from a Roger Garland's brightly-colored paint­ biography of Roy Campbell, that Lewis was ings based on Tolkien's works are well- told by Campbell of his marital problems known, if not acclaimed universally among (162).