Most Recent Articles from Mythlore

• Editorial 

  THIS IS THE TYPES OF ISSUE I PARTICULARLY ENJOY as an editor and a reader--an issue where articles lead from one to another along a pathway of...

  09/22/09 by Janet Brennan Croft · More from publication

• Perilous shores: the unfathomable supernaturalism of water in 19th-century Scottish folklore 

  FROM THE SEAS TROUBLED BY DRAGONS, to the lochs haunted by kelpies and water horses, to shores and banks watched by fairies and glaistigs, the...

  09/22/09 by Jason Marc Harris · More from publication

• Amanda McKittrick Ros and the Inklings 

  PICTURE THIS: WE ARE IN THE YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR II. The Inklings have been friends for a long time. J.R.R. Tolkien is no longer reading the...

  09/22/09 by Anita G. Gorman; Leslie Robertson Mateer · More from publication

• No sex in Narnia? How Hans Christian Andersen's "Snow Queen" problematizes C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia 

  C. S. LEWIS'S THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA (1950-1956) are remembered by many adults as favorite books from their childhood. The excitement of finding...

  09/22/09 by Jennifer L. Miller · More from publication

• Innocence as a super-power: little girls on the Hero's Journey 

  Introduction ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR PLOTS IN FANTASY FICTION IS THE QUEST. From the ancient tale of Gilgamesh, to European fairy tales like...

  09/22/09 by David Emerson · More from publication

• Naming the evil one: onomastic strategies in Tolkien and Rowling 

  WHAT IS A NAME? LINGUISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, GENEALOGISTS, AND LAWYERS will give different answers. Having a name can mean different things to...

  09/22/09 by Janet Brennan Croft · More from publication

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