Mythlore

This issue of Mythlore is the last compiled under the able editorial leadership of Dr. Ted Sherman. Dr. Sherman's great achievement, beginning with his first issue in 1999, was to transform Mythlore into a solid scholarly peer-reviewed journal, with...

In his Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis creates a world that teaches children about Christianity outside of a normal religious setting. His mythical stories steeped in Christian ideals present a fresh, magical world that breaks through normal childhood...

In The Road to Middle-earth, T.A. Shippey observes that there is a strong association between the Riders of Rohan in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the Anglo-Saxons of poetry and history, and more specifically that "the chapter 'The King of the...

As waters haste unto their sea, And earth unto its earth, So let my heart return to thee, From whom it had its birth. The Vicar's Daughter I died a mineral and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should...

"A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean." ("Fantastic Imagination" 317) George MacDonald was a passionate Christian and a passionate Romantic, and his religious thought stretches orthodox Christianity...