• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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'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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  • 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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    Reworking of Folktale Motifs in The Hobbit (and The Lord of the Rings)". Mythlore. 36 (2 (132)): 89–104. ISSN 0146-9339. OCLC 8513422873. Croft, Janet Brennan...
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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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  • 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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  • relatives, and that of Númenor among them. Eric Schweicher, writing in Mythlore, notes that the ban was "soon defied", as in the Biblical fall. The temptation...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    magician's niece: the kinship between J. K. Rowling and C. S. Lewis". Mythlore. 23 (2): 53–64. ISSN 0146-9339. JSTOR 26814627. Groves, Beatrice (2017)...
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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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  • Meduseld?: Tolkien's Use of 'Beowulf' in 'The King of the Golden Hall'". Mythlore. 24 (3/4): 119–134. JSTOR 26814548. Nitzsche 1980, pp. 119–122. Shippey...
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    Impact of H.P. Lovecraft's Fiction on Contemporary Occult Practices". Mythlore. 33 (125): 85–98. JSTOR 26815942. S2CID 159074285 – via SWOSU Digital Commons...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • ISBN 978-0-00-720907-1. Thompson, Ricky L. (1994). "Tolkien's Word-Hord Onlēac". Mythlore. 20 (1). Allard, Joe; North, Richard (2011). Beowulf and Other Stories...
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    Now Praise Famous Orcs: Simple Humanity in Tolkien's Inhuman Creatures". Mythlore. 29 (1). article 3. Shippey 2005, pp. 362, 438 (chapter 5, note 14). Evans...
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  • man with emotions behind the armour and the tradition. Nancy Martsch, in Mythlore, writes that Tolkien's descriptions of battle are vivid, noting that he...
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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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