Orcrist 7
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Orcrist #7 | |
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Editor | Richard C. West (Art Editor: Ivor A. Rogers) |
Publisher | Madison: University of Wisconsin J.R.R. Tolkien Society |
Released | 1973 |
Format | Magazine |
ISBN | None |
Orcrist 7 is an issue of the journal Orcrist, published as a Special Issue on the Medieval Tradition in Modern Literature.
The front cover features an untitled illustration by M. Cannito.[1]
Contents
Dedication: For Carl Carroll: un homme tant preux que nus plus
- "Songs of Gurre" -- Jens Peter Jacobsen, translated from the Danish by Poul Anderson (pp. 4-7)
- "No Man Can Escape His Weird" -- Sandra Miesel (pp. 9-12) [mostly on Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword]
- "Malory and T. H. White" -- Richard C. West (pp. 13-15)
- "Moot Point" (p. 15) [letters from Tim Kirk (30 April 1972) and Eugene Vinaver (12 May 1972) ]
- "Tolkien's Creative Technique: Beowulf and The Hobbit" -- Bonniejean Christensen (pp. 16-20)
- "Farmer Giles of Ham: What Is It?" -- J. A. Johnson (pp. 21-24)
- "Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain and the Welsh Tradition" -- Elizabeth Lane (pp. 25-29)
- In Review" (p. 29)
- "Solid Gold Guide" : Robert Foster, A Guide to Middle-earth (Mirage Press, 1971) -- reviewed by Deborah Rogers
- "Brief Mentions" by Richard West of:
- James D. Allan, A Glossary of the Eldarin Tongues (self-published, 1972)
- Thomas D. Clareson, ed. SF: The Other Side of Realism (Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971)
- Charles H. Huttar, ed. Imagination and the Spirit: Essays in Literature and the Christian Faith presented to Clyde S. Kilby (Eerdmans, 1971)
- Carolyn Keefe, ed. C. S. Lewis: Speaker and Teacher (Zondervan, 1971)
- C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, ed. Walter Hooper (Eerdmans, 1970)
- Sam J. Lundwall, Science Fiction: What It's All About (Ace, 1971)
- Jeremy Potter, A Trail of Blood (McCall, 1971)
- William Ready, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit Notes (Coles Publishing Co., Ltd., 1971)
- R.J. Reilly, Romantic Religion: A Study of Barfield, Lewis, Williams, and Tolkien (University of Georgia Press, 1971)
- Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave (Morrow, 1970)
- Gunnar Urang, Shadows of Heaven: Religion and Fantasy in the Writing of C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and J.R.R. Tolkien (Pilgrim Press, 1971)
References
- ↑ "Orcrist #7", Tolkien Collector's Guide (accessed 25 May 2012)