Add to ORKGAttempts to define mythology in a broad context. Contends that truly mythic literature is rare, and science fiction is a mythology for modern times. Offers some “guesses” about the future of science fiction and fantasy
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth. J. R. R. Tolkien. Ed. by Christopher Tolkien. Reviewe...
Discussion of transcription of “Bombadil poem” reproduced in 1978 Silmarillion Calendar, and what it...
Text of a talk at Mythcon VI by Walter Hooper, who worked for C.S. Lewis as his secretary for some t...
Studies the process of creating fantasy worlds, or sub-creation, with observations from several auth...
Discusses Lewis’s theory of mythology as “an intensely Christian one” that is “essential to an under...
Compares how the three authors shaped their mythopoeic literature—Tolkien as a true creator, Lewis a...
Discusses the mythology of Lewis’s Perelandra, finding its sources primarily in the Bible, with a fe...
Discusses the significance of choosing names in fantasy, drawing on statements from Le Guin and Tolk...
Explores Tolkien’s technique of balancing the predictable and every-day with the wonderful by viewin...
Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 12. Discusses relationship of fairy tales to older myths, and warns a...
Discusses aspects of “reality to the senses” and communication of “lore” in The Lord of the Rings. N...
Discusses the review essays Tolkien wrote for The Years’ Work in English Studies in 1923–1926, and f...
J. R. R. Tolkien coined the term mythopoeia as a philosophical concept referring to the process of a...
Discusses several homophones of “orc” in fantastic literature as possible sources for Tolkien
Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applie...
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth. J. R. R. Tolkien. Ed. by Christopher Tolkien. Reviewe...
Discussion of transcription of “Bombadil poem” reproduced in 1978 Silmarillion Calendar, and what it...
Text of a talk at Mythcon VI by Walter Hooper, who worked for C.S. Lewis as his secretary for some t...
Studies the process of creating fantasy worlds, or sub-creation, with observations from several auth...
Discusses Lewis’s theory of mythology as “an intensely Christian one” that is “essential to an under...
Compares how the three authors shaped their mythopoeic literature—Tolkien as a true creator, Lewis a...
Discusses the mythology of Lewis’s Perelandra, finding its sources primarily in the Bible, with a fe...
Discusses the significance of choosing names in fantasy, drawing on statements from Le Guin and Tolk...
Explores Tolkien’s technique of balancing the predictable and every-day with the wonderful by viewin...
Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 12. Discusses relationship of fairy tales to older myths, and warns a...
Discusses aspects of “reality to the senses” and communication of “lore” in The Lord of the Rings. N...
Discusses the review essays Tolkien wrote for The Years’ Work in English Studies in 1923–1926, and f...
J. R. R. Tolkien coined the term mythopoeia as a philosophical concept referring to the process of a...
Discusses several homophones of “orc” in fantastic literature as possible sources for Tolkien
Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applie...
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth. J. R. R. Tolkien. Ed. by Christopher Tolkien. Reviewe...
Discussion of transcription of “Bombadil poem” reproduced in 1978 Silmarillion Calendar, and what it...
Text of a talk at Mythcon VI by Walter Hooper, who worked for C.S. Lewis as his secretary for some t...