Mallorn 49

Mallorn 49 is the forty-ninth issue of the The Tolkien Society's biannual journal Mallorn, published in Spring 2010.

Contents[edit | edit source]

Cover Art
- Glaurung's Death Throes
  - By: Sue Wookey
Editorial
- "How do we know what we know?"
  - By: John D. Rateliff
Letters
Reviews
- "A question of source": The Epic Realm of Tolkien
  - By: Tom Shippey
- "The shape of a story": Rhetorics of Fantasy
  - By: Chad Chisholm
- "Dear Santa": Letters from Father Christmas
  - By: Mike Foster
- "Pandora's box": Avatar
  - By: James Bower
- "Deep in the forest...": Born Of Hope
  - By: Henry Gee
- "Hay on fire"
  - By: John Gilbey
Commentary
- "'An unlettered peasant boy' of 'sordid character' - Shakespeare, Suffield and Tolkien"
  - By: Maggie Burns
- "Lewis and Tolkien: bridges between worlds"
  - By: Mike Pueppke
- "The words of Húrin and Morgoth: microcosm, macrocosm and the later legendarium"
  - By: Kristine Larsen
- "Balrogs: being and becoming"
  - By: Alan Tierney
Interview
- "Has anyone seen Sméagol: Chris Bouchard"
  - By: Colin Sullivan
Poetry
- "Slaying the Dragon"
  - By: Tuilinde
- "Arwen"
  - By: Ben Gribbin
- "The Ballad of Sam Gamgee"
  - By: Teresa Kirkpatrick
Fiction
- "The architect of apathy"
  - By: Shelly Li
Well, I'm back
- "Two cheers for applicability"
  - By: Gareth Owens
Back Cover
- By: Lorenzo Daniele
Inside Art
- By: Phyllis Berka, Lorenzo Daniele, John Gilbey, Teresa Kirkpatrick, Jef Murray, Colin Williams