The Verse of J.R.R. Tolkien

Largely negative criticism of Tolkien as a poet, particularly his early work in Book of Lost Tales and Lays of Beleriand. Notes, however, that “much of the verse embedded in his prose does indeed fit the purpose for which he intended it.

Witches, Wives and Dragons: The Evolution of the Women in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea—An Overview

A survey of the evolution of women in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series, examining how the author reassessed her depiction of gender in the earlier books and deliberately changed her viewpoint in the later books

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The Harvest Moon: Where the wolfbane blossoms, my mother said a man cries In fur covered hands, A Witch in the Well: A witch fell down a wishing well while leaning over to see in. The Grail: Hope eternal shrouded in medieval myth, guarded by the angels in some lost Middle-earth Lament: The moon is a horned dilemma And I am on the moon

20 Years and 50 Issues

Comments of members/readers on what the Society and Mythlore have meant to them

Introduction to the Special Issue: The Art, the Craft, the Tale of Vision and Re-vision: Ursula K. Le Guin Shows the Way

This issue of Mythlore commemorates the life and writing of author Ursula Kroeber Le Guin: visionary essayist, poet, blogger, critic, teacher, and grandmaster of fantasy and science fiction via novel, novella, and short story. Le Guin was indisputably a gamechanger in the fiction genres of fantasy and science fiction, and her essays about these genres remain some of the most thought-provoking and insightful ever published. Le Guin has left us a body of mythopoeic work that is an inexhaustible source of wonder