Scholarly Guest of Honor address, Mythcon 12. Discusses references to elves and fairies in the poetry of Lewis. Faerie provides a romantic streak in nature, and/or psychological symbols of escape, in the early poems. Faerie and Christianity vie in “The Queen of Drum,” and Faerie is virtually absent from his later poems
Text of a talk at Mythcon VI by Walter Hooper, who worked for C.S. Lewis as his secretary for some t...
Notes known connections to Lewis and Williams on Sayers’s part (through the evidence of letters). Sp...
An appreciation of the techniques used by the three authors in creating languages for animals (Adams...
Notes “The Queen of Drum” is nearly unique among Lewis’s works in offering a third choice—Heaven, He...
Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 12. Discusses relationship of fairy tales to older myths, and warns a...
Speculates about reasons for comparative critical neglect of Lewis’s early poetry collection. Discus...
Discusses various theories for the origins of fairies (and tales about them) in myth, history, and r...
Companion to her study of Tolkien’s use of the Andrew Lang fairy tale collections (in #99/100) with ...
Study of symbolism in Till We Have Faces, and its sources in various mystical traditions, alchemy, a...
The Silmarillion. J. R. R. Tolkien, Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson. C. S....
Analyzes Smith of Wootton Major as a statement of Tolkien’s theories on fantasy writing, particularl...
The Song of Middle-Earth. David Harvey. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson. The Impulse of Fantasy Lit...
Compares how the three authors shaped their mythopoeic literature—Tolkien as a true creator, Lewis a...
Examines Lilith-figures in Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Sayers, discussing how each demonstrates ce...
Studies the process of creating fantasy worlds, or sub-creation, with observations from several auth...
Text of a talk at Mythcon VI by Walter Hooper, who worked for C.S. Lewis as his secretary for some t...
Notes known connections to Lewis and Williams on Sayers’s part (through the evidence of letters). Sp...
An appreciation of the techniques used by the three authors in creating languages for animals (Adams...
Notes “The Queen of Drum” is nearly unique among Lewis’s works in offering a third choice—Heaven, He...
Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 12. Discusses relationship of fairy tales to older myths, and warns a...
Speculates about reasons for comparative critical neglect of Lewis’s early poetry collection. Discus...
Discusses various theories for the origins of fairies (and tales about them) in myth, history, and r...
Companion to her study of Tolkien’s use of the Andrew Lang fairy tale collections (in #99/100) with ...
Study of symbolism in Till We Have Faces, and its sources in various mystical traditions, alchemy, a...
The Silmarillion. J. R. R. Tolkien, Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson. C. S....
Analyzes Smith of Wootton Major as a statement of Tolkien’s theories on fantasy writing, particularl...
The Song of Middle-Earth. David Harvey. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson. The Impulse of Fantasy Lit...
Compares how the three authors shaped their mythopoeic literature—Tolkien as a true creator, Lewis a...
Examines Lilith-figures in Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Sayers, discussing how each demonstrates ce...
Studies the process of creating fantasy worlds, or sub-creation, with observations from several auth...
Text of a talk at Mythcon VI by Walter Hooper, who worked for C.S. Lewis as his secretary for some t...
Notes known connections to Lewis and Williams on Sayers’s part (through the evidence of letters). Sp...
An appreciation of the techniques used by the three authors in creating languages for animals (Adams...