Mythlore is a biannual (originally quarterly) peer-reviewed academic journal founded by Glen GoodKnight and published by the Mythopoeic Society. Although...
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perceive the Valar "as a pantheon", serving as gods. Judith Kollmann wrote in Mythlore that "the Valar are clearly the gods of Scandinavia, Greece, and Rome,...
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seeing stones The scholar Paul H. Kocher, reviewing Unfinished Tales in Mythlore, noted that all the stories are linked to either The Silmarillion, Akallabeth...
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Tolkien's Galadriel". Mythlore. 29 (3). Article 8. Fenwick, Mac (1996). "Breastplates of Silk: Homeric Women in The Lord of the Rings". Mythlore. 21 (3). article...
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Apollo Sauroktonos", Apollo the Lizard-killer. Gwenyth Hood, writing in Mythlore, compares Sauron to Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula...
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will and can therefore rebel against him. Grant C. Sterling, writing in Mythlore, states that the Maiar resemble the Valar in being unable to die, but differ...
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moment of Saruman's death. Michael Treschow and Mark Duckworth, writing in Mythlore, note that the return to the Shire emphasises the protagonists' growth...
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publications on Tolkien's writing were essentially fanzines; some, such as Mythlore, founded in 1969, developed into scholarly peer-reviewed (refereed) technical...
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Tolkien, the Saint Brendan Story, and the Idea of Paradise in the West". Mythlore. 17 (4): 16–20, 62. Carpenter, Humphrey (1981, ed.), The Letters of J....
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of the Norse god Odin was Báleygr, "fire-eyed". Joe Abbott, writing in Mythlore, notes that the Old Norse Voluspa mentions that the fire-demon Surt carries...
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Paul Edwin (1993). "Another Opinion of 'The Verse of J. R. R. Tolkien'". Mythlore. 19 (2). Article 2. Holmes, John R. (2013) [2007]. "Art and Illustrations...
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the Elves during the First Age" (Mythlore 14.1, 1987) "Orc Hosts, Armies and Legions: A Demographic Study" (Mythlore 16.4, 1990) "To -E or -NE? On the...
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Nicholas (2007). "The Enigma of Radagast: Revision, Melodrama, and Depth". Mythlore. 26 (1): 113–126. Sibley, Brian (2012). The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey...
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Daughter of the River". Mythlore. 27 (1). article 12. Rateliff, John D. (2007). "The History of The Hobbit: Volume I: Mr. Baggins". Mythlore. London: 50–59. ISSN 0146-9339...
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Reworking of Folktale Motifs in The Hobbit (and The Lord of the Rings)". Mythlore. 36 (2 (132)): 89–104. OCLC 8513422873. Croft, Janet Brennan (2004). War...
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his relatives, and that of Númenor among them. Eric Schweicher writes in Mythlore that the ban was "soon defied", as in the Biblical fall. The temptation...
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examination of "placing power in external objects". Gwyneth Hood, writing in Mythlore, explores two Catholic elements in the story of the Three Rings: the angelic...
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"Review of Medievalism in a Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones". Mythlore. 37 (1 (133)): 248–251. ISSN 0146-9339. JSTOR 26809343. Archived from the...
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neither how to appreciate it nor how to use it. Robley Evans, writing in Mythlore, draws a parallel between Thingol and Fëanor: like him, he turns away from...
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at about the latitude of ancient Troy." Michael Livingston comments in Mythlore that Minas Tirith resembled Troy in having "impregnable walls", and in...
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he will feed them, and leads them to the world. Joe Abbott, writing in Mythlore, comments that Ungoliant and Shelob are similar monsters, "product of a...
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contain stars, with an elongated star in each corner. Margaret Purdy, in Mythlore, writes that Gil-galad's shield, like all elvish heraldry personal not...
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in any case it is weary work to compose a map from a story. Writing in Mythlore, Jefferson P. Swycaffer suggested that the political and strategic situations...
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be met today." The scholar of English literature Robert Tally wrote in Mythlore that despite the uniform presentation of orcs as "loathsome, ugly, cruel...
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Impact of H.P. Lovecraft's Fiction on Contemporary Occult Practices". Mythlore. 1 (125): 85–98. JSTOR 26815942. Laycock, Joseph P. Reitman (2012). "We...
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expanded edition was published by InterVarsity Press on May 16, 2008. In Mythlore, Nancy Patterson praised Between Heaven and Hell as "an entertaining hour's...
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scholars such as Partridge. The Tolkien scholar Daniel Timmons wrote in Mythlore in 2001: "The obsession of reading the Shelob episode as a sexually violent...
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Verlyn (15 October 2000). "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Matter of Britain". Mythlore. 23 (1). Retrieved 24 May 2022. Geoffrey of Monmouth (1966). Thorpe, Lewis...
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Melkor, the Morgoth, the Black Foe of the World." Reviewing the book for Mythlore, Glen GoodKnight wrote that in it, Christopher Tolkien leads the reader...
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proved unworkable. The Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft states in Mythlore that the races of Middle-earth, Hobbits, Men, Elves, and Dwarves, all believe...
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