For entries 34–41 in this series, Hammond reviews Tolkien titles, Christopher reviews the Lewis material, and Hargis reviews Williams and the other Inklings

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Volume 16 Number 2 Article 8 Winter 12-15-1989 An Inklings Bibliography (37) Joe R. Christopher Wayne G. Hammond Pat Allen Hargis Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore  Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation Christopher, Joe R.; Hammond, Wayne G.; and Hargis, Pat Allen (1989) "An Inklings Bibliography (37)," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 16 : No. 2 , Article 8. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol16/iss2/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Mythopoeic Society at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact phillip.fitzsimmons@swosu.edu. To join the Mythopoeic Society go to: http://www.mythsoc.org/join.htm Mythcon 51: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien Albuquerque, New Mexico • Postponed to: July 30 – August 2, 2021 Abstract For entries 34–41 in this series, Hammond reviews Tolkien titles, Christopher reviews the Lewis material, and Hargis reviews Williams and the other Inklings. This article is available in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol16/iss2/8 Page 58 (JlllnccR 1989 CDyTHLORe 60AN 1NKL1NQS BlBLlOQRAPHy (37)Compiled 6y )oc R. ChRistopheR, (JJayne Hammond <5c Par Allen HaRgisAuthors and readers are encouraged to send copiies and bibliographic references on: J.R .R . T o lk ien  —  W ayne G. H am m ond, 30 Talcott Road, W il- liamstown, MA 01267; C.S. L e w is  — Dr. J.R. Chris­topher, English Department, Tarleton State Univer­sity, Stephenville, TX 76402; C h a r les  W illia m s  a n d  th e  o th e r  In k lin g s  —  Pat Allen Hargis, Judson Col­lege, 1151 N. State St., Elgin, IL 60120.Becker, Alida, Ed. A  T o lk ien  T reasu ry . Illustrations by Michael Green. Color illustrations by Tim Kirk. Phildelphia: Courage Books, 1989.192 pp., (8) pp. of color plates A reprint of The Tolkien Scrapbook (1978) with minor revisions, in a larger format. J.R. Christopher aptly described this work as "a popular anthology, with a fan- nish emphasis"; see Inklings Bibliography 9 in Mythlore 20 (Spring 1979); 42-44, which includes a full description of contents.The text appears to be unchanged. The appendix, pp. 177-92, is revised, the first part of the appendix, "A Gather­ing of Fans," lists as before seven fantasy and Tolkien-re­lated organizations but with deletions and changes. The second part, "A Fan's Reading List," though still proclaims that "fanzines are alive and flourishing" now includes only sixteen publication, five fewer tan in the Scrapbook.The third part of the appendix, "A Tolkien Bibliog­raphy," has been enlarged. Though Bonniejean Christen­sen still receives credit for the bibliography, it is not certain that she is responsible for the revision. Errors have been carried over from the original typesetting for the Scrapbook, and many errors have been made in the new citations. Not included in the list of works by Tolkien are his Letters, Mr. Bliss, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, and Finn and Hengest, among others. "The History of Middle-earth" series is cited as if in only two parts: The Book o f Lost Tales, here described as in three volumes (presumably The Book of Lost Tales 1 and 2 counted as one volume, The Lays of Beleriand, and The Shaping of Middle-earth), and separately, The Lost Road. The Return o f the Shadow, perhaps published too late for the revision deadline, is not cited. In the new citations only American editions are noted.Two works have been added to the list of popular works on Tolkien's fiction: J.R.R. Tolkien, Master o f Fantasy by Bill Green (inserted out of alphabetical order) and J.R.R. Tolkien: Hobbit Chronicler by Russell Shorto (published as J.R.R. Tolkien: Man of Fantasy). To the list of scholarly works on Tolkien's fiction have been added: J.R.R. Tolkien by Katherine W. Crabbe (original and revised editions); Splintered Light by Verlyn Flciger (described as published by University Microfilms International, actually publishedby Eerdmans); The Atlas o f Middle-earth by Karen W. Fonstad; J.R.R. Tolkien: The Shores o f Middle-earth, ed. Gid­dings and Holland; Shadows o f Imagination, ed. Hillegas; Tolkien: New Critical Perspectives, ed. Issacs and Zimbardo; J.R.R. Tolkien: Six Decades o f Criticism by Judith A. Johnson; England and Always by Jared C. Lobdell (also published by Eerdmans but wrongly described as published by UMI); Lightning from a Clear Sky by Richard Mathews; Evocation of Virgil in Tolkien's Art by Robert E, Morse; The Languages o f Middle-earth by Ruth S. Noel; The Individuated Hobbit by Timothy R. O'Neill; J.R.R. Tolkien by Deborah and Ivor Rogers; The Politics o f Fantasy by Lee D. Rossi; J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller, ed. Salu and Farrell; and Shadows of Heaven by Gunnar Urang. The Inklings by Carpenter, the second edition of Tolkien Criticism by West, and The Road to Middle-earth by Shippey, among several other books and revisions of books, and all periodical literature since 1973, are omitted. [WGH]Bertenstam, Ake. "Som e Notes on the Reception of T he H o b b it ."  Angerthas (publication of the Arthedain-Nor- ges Tolkienforening, Oslo) 23 (Aug. 1988): 16-18, 20-25.A review of reviews of The Hobbit on its initial appearance in 1937-38. Most of the reviewers liked the book very much, though they found it hard to say why they liked it. Some "make more or less (mostly less) successful attempts at comparisons with other books . . . while a few others spend most of their space by giving plot outlines . . . "  (p. 17). Bertenstam wonders if the unenthusiastic reviewers given the book by Mary F. Lucas and Eleanor Graham, bo th in publications aimed at librarians, contributed to The Hobbit's failure to win any of the major children's book prizes (administered by library associations). The Hobbit was often compared with Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows. Very few reviewers judged it as literature in great detail, except to praise its style in general terms. Tolkien's illustrations and maps were praised by all reviewers except "J.L.P." in the Oxford Magazine. One of the most ambitious reviews of The Hobbit was written by Prof. G.H. Cowling in All about Books (Melbourne), who troubled to say what a fairy-tale is before ranking The Hobbit as one "which seems to be in the true succession, and not just a "cleverosity'" (p. 22).Includes a bibliography of reviewers and other refer­ences. [WGH]Brogan, Hugh. "Tolkien's Great War." C hildren  a n d  T h eir  B o o k s :  A  C e leb ra t io n  o f  th e  W o rk  o f  Io n a  an d  P ete r  O p ie . Ed. Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.351-67.World War I, The Great War, "lay like a cloud on theconsciousness of the English" (p. 352) and heaviest on those who had been combatants, Tolkien among them. While convalescing Tolkien retreated into his "Silm aril­lion" mythology, a place where he could master all the grief and horror and ugliness of the m odem  world, giving it dignity and significance" (p. 358). Borrowing from The Great War and Modern M emory  by Paul Fussell, Brogan argues that going to war in 1914-18 "fitted easily into the patterns o f heroic rom ance" by Chretien de Troyes, Thomas Malory, and W illiam Morris, tales of a hero and his quest (p. 363). By adopting the quest-form for The Hobbit and The Lord o f  the Rings Tolkien found "a  means to express all that the Great W ar meant to him in a way that could reach out, even with hope, to his fellow men and women as the inward-looking, grieving mode o f The Sil­marillion could not___Tolkien's vision is extremely bleak,but it is not depressing perhaps because it is realistic and courageous, with the realism and courage of the trenches" (pp. 364,365). [WGH]G oller, Karl H einz. "Z w ischen A rtusreich und Gralwelt: D ie Poetologie der Arthurian Poems von Charles W illiam s." ["Between the Realm of Arthur and the Grail: The Poetology of the Arthurian Poems of the Arthurian Poems of Charles Williams." German text with Eng. summary.] Inklings-Jahrbuch far Literatur und Asthetik 5 (1987): 81-101. [PAH]Gose, Elliott. M ere C reatures: A Study o f  M od em  F an tasy  T ales f o r  C hildren. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. xii + 202 pp. [Tolkien 3, 9 ,14, 15, 84, 88, [148J-68, 172,173-74,175-76,179,181]Gose summarizes The Hobbit and places it in context of works of children's fantasy including in particular Baum's Ozma o f Oz and Adams' Watership Down. His analysis of Tolkien's book, not m ade in depth, is chiefly in terms of Jungian psychology. [WGH]H eath-Stubbs, John. "C harles W illiam s as I KnewHim ." Inklings-Jahrbuch fUr Literatur und Asthetik 5 (1987): 61-75. Heath-Stubbs reminisces about times spent with Williams while doing his undergraduate work at Oxford and recalls discussions of literature with Williams. [PAH]Kreeft, Peter. C.S. L ew is: A C ritica l E ssay . Front Royal Virginia: Christendom College Press, 1988.72 pp. [Barfield, 9,22; Tolkien, 9,48,49,52,55; Williams, 9,42.]This is a reprinting of the 1969 pamphlet o f the same title published by Eerdmans. It is longer that the 48-page original version mainly because of less print per page, but the new edition does have an introduction not in the original and a revised and longer selected bibliography at the end. The introduction offers a good explanation of why so many books on Lewis are dull. Kreeft also explains what he would revise, if he were rewriting the book today; the introduction ends with praise for Lewis as writer and as Christian. The select bibliography lists most of the booksCPyTHLORe 60by Lewis, in categories and in order o f their interest, ac­cording to Kreeft. The most surprising om ission is They Stand Together. The selected secondary sources lists eight books, in contrast to the two in the first edition.Most students o f Lewis will have read the original pamphlet, but the contents m ay be suggested by the sub­titles of the five chapters: Lewis the Man; Lewis's Attack on Modernity; Lew is's Religious Philosophy; Lewis's Fic­tion; Lew is's Historical Significance. Kreeft has a high number of quotations from Lewis, for this is intended simply as an introduction to Lewis and a sampler; a new reader will find a number of the usual Lewisian themes treated by Kreeft in his 1969 tex t— e.g., Lewis' objectivity, his partial division between reason and romanticism. And Kreeft's brief comparisons of Lewis and Kierkegaard in his last chapter add freshness. All in all, a pleasant, small introduction. [JRC]Kollm ann, Judith J. "Th e Q uestion of Influence in C harles W illiam s's A rthurian  C y cles." Inklings- JahrbuchfUr Literatur und Asthetik 5 (1987): 103-117.Kollmann explores Williams' use of allusion, noting that the appropriation and alteration of significant moments in the poetic tradition play an important role in how Williams expresses his own version o f a grand unity. [PAH]Lewis, C .S., and Don Giovanni Calabria. L etters :A  Study in Friendship. Trans, and ed. Martin Moyhihan. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Servant Books, 1988. [The title page has "Let­ters / C.S. Lewis / [design] / Don Giovanni Calabria / A Study in Friendship." which oddly separates what seem to be the title and the subtitle by the authors' names.)The main part of the text consists of thirty-five letters in Latin with M oynihan's transitions on facing pages: seven letters from Don Giovanni Calabria to Lewis, twenty-one letters from Lewis to Don Calabria, and, after the priest's death, seven letters from Lewis to Don Luigi Pedrollo, the whole correspondence extending from 1947 until 1961. Lewis' style in Moynihan's translations and, so far as one can judge, in the Latin originals is not completely typical of his English style, being slightly more generalized and slightly more ornate. This can be laid to the differences between the language probably.Don Giovanni Calabria (beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1988) founded an orphanage and later a religious community; among other obligations, he wrote to non-Roman Catholics on matters of Christian unity -  and thus he wrote to Lewis, after reading an Italian trans­lation o f The ScrewtapeLetters. Lewis sometimes says things he says elsewhere; sometimes Lewis says new things, such as his comment on his temptation for the desire to be thought well o f and his fear of rejection. (47).M oynihan's introduction is a revised version (mainly slightly shortened throughout) of the essay "The Latin Letter, 1947-1961, o f C.S. Lewis to Don Giovanni Calabria (Continued on page 66)Pape 59(UtnccR 1989(JJinccR 1989 CPgTH LO RC 603. Le Guin, The Language o f the Night, p. 53.4. T.A.Shippey, "The Magic Art and the Evolution of Words: Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy, "Mosaic 10,2 (Winter 1977): 147-63.5. Rilke, The Selected Poetry, p.171.6. Le Guin, A Wizard o f Earthsea. Berkeley: Parnassus Press, 1968, p .96.1wish to thank Professor Mason Harris for reminding me of this passage.7. Rilke, The Selected Poetry, pp.205-207.8. Le Guin, The Language o f the Night, p.78.9. Rilke, The Selected Poetry, p.205.S e a l  ' W i f eI came in on the tide of a fall-following wind, walking, while the gulls squawked overhead, you thought I was a normal woman, not dreaming I came sea-borne to your bed.But when the maple trees bloom greenand the black birds spread out across the marshes,don't look for me —I will be gone, a cold swimmer, again unlimbed and moving into a seamless sea.Elizabeth AlexanderInklings 5il6iogRaphy —  continued from page 59 of Verona (1873-1954) and to Members of H is Congrega­tion," Seven, vol. 6 (1985), 7-22; reprinted as a chapbook, The Latin Letters o f  C.S. Lewis to Don Giovanni Calabria o f  Verona and to Members o f  His Congregation, 1947-1961. (Westchester, Illinois: Crossway Books [a Division of Good News Publishers], 1987,64 pp., with a Christian afterword by Lyle W . Dorsett. M oynihan's essay is a general survey of the background of the letters and an appreciation of their contents; the chapbook version is divided into five brief chapters, unlike the original version and the present volum e's introduction. Moynihan also provides Letters: A Study in Friendship with notes on the letters and a brief index of the letters (not o f the contents).Letters: A Study in Friendship is the sixth volum e of Lewis' letters to be published: Letters o f  C.S. Lewis, ed. W.H. Lewis (1966), Letters to an American Lady, ed. Clyde S. Kilby (1967); M ark vs. Tristam, ed. Walter Hooper (1967) -  a limited-edition pamphlet; They Stand Together, ed. Walter Hooper (1979); and Letters to Children, ed. Lyle W. Dorsett and Marjorie Lamp Mead (1985). This volum e of Latin letters belongs on the shelf beside the others (or all but the pamphlet, which one is unlikely to have); in contrast to the religious advice offered by Lewis in the first two volumes, this book shows Lewis writing to his religious peer (probably in Lewis' view, his religious superior); Moynihan makes much of Lewis' courtesy, and this is the mark (one would assume, or like to assume) of an ex­change between true Christians. [JRC]Schneider, Angelika. "C harles W illiam s' 'T he Star of Percivale'." [German text with English summary] Inklings- fahrbuchfilr Literatur und Asthetik 5 (1987): 119-131.Pagc 66_____________________Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit, orThere and Back Again. Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1984.319 pp., 6 color plates.A reprint (not reset) of the Houghton M ifflin's Collector's Edition (1973) in a slightly sm aller format, bound in dark green leather, gilt, with gold watered silk endleaves. In addition to Tolkien's ten pen illustrations and maps and five color plates, this edition includes a specially com mis­sioned color frontispiece by Michael Hague. The Hague illustration depicts Bilbo, Gandalf, and six dwarves on a wooded hill overlooking the Lonely M ountain, a scene not am ong H ague's illustrations for the Allen & Unwin/ H oughton M ifflin H obbit o f 1984, and indeed not in Tolkien's text. [WGH]Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1984. 3 vols.A reprint (not reset) o f the Houghton Mifflin second edi­tion (1966), bound in dark green leather, with watered silk endleaves. The edition is notable for its three specially com missioned color frontispieces by M ichael Hague:In The Fellowship o f the Ring, G andalf faces the Balrog on the Bridge of Kazad-dum. The Balrog appears to be part human, part sim ian, and part leonine, and wears a neck­lace adorned with a skull.In The Two Towers, Frodo, Sam , and a remarkable hob­bit-like G ollum  lie hidden before the Teeth of Mordor.In The Return o f  the King, Eowyn (her face turned away from the viewer) prepares to battle the Lord of the Nazgul, who sits upon a winged dragon-like steed. [W G H ]fTolkien Indexes by PNHPNH has the following indexes, concordances and glossaries available to interested parties:1. A Working Concordance: a listing of persons, places, things, and linguistic elements in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, with volume and page number for (almost) every occurance.2. A Working Lexicon: a listing of English words used to translate invented language passages in the writings of JRRT, with volume and page numbers.3. A Working Reverse Index: a listing of 24,000 invented language elements, spelled backwards and alphabetized with volume and page numbers.4. A Working Reverse Dictionary: like #3 but also includes detailed etymological material for the 17,000 entries with such information.5. A WorkingTolkien Glossary:a seven volume work listing the more than 24,000 entries with detailed linguistic in­formation for each of the entries where explicit in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.Send all inqueries to:Paul Nolan Hyde, 2661 E. Lee, Simi Valley, CA 93065 #1 and #2 can be obtained for $20.00 per copy; #3 and #4 for $25.00 each; #5 sells for $175.00. All eleven volumes can be pur­chased at one time for $235.00. All funds should be in U.S. dollars. Indude $2.00 per volume for postage and handling. Orders out­side of the con tinental U.S. should indude $7.00 per volume, to a maximum of $40.00. Paid Avartiaemert

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