Mallorn 56

Mallorn 56 is the fifty-sixth issue of the The Tolkien Society's annual journal Mallorn, published in Winter 2015.

Contents[edit | edit source]

Cover Art
- "The Prancing Pony"
  - By: Tomás Hijo
Editorial
- - By: Helen Armstrong
Articles
- "Love forsaken, from the land banished”: The Complexity of Love and Honor in Tolkien's Fall of Arthur"
  - By: Jay Ruud
- "Middle-earth and Midgard: the Viking Sagas in Tolkien’s Legendarium"
  - By: Logan Quigley
- "Tolkien's Tom Bombadil and Social Media: An Excursus Note"
  - By: Thad A. Burkhart
- "J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Leaf by Niggle': A Fantastic Journey to Afterlife"
  - By: Ahmet Mesut Ateş
- "'Beautiful and Terrible': The Significance of Galadriel's Hair in The Lord of the Rings and Unfinished Tales"
  - By: Lilian Darvell
- "Tolkien's First Notebook and its Destruction"
  - By: Nancy Bunting
- "Parallel Paths and Distorting Mirrors: Strategic Duality as a Narrative Principle in Tolkien's Works"
  - By: Michaela Hausmann
- "There, but Not Back Again: Middle-earth circa 4000 BCE"
  - By: Sherrylyn Branchaw
Creative Essays
- "This Side of the Standing Stone"
  - By: Rebecca Martin
- "Padric and the Devil"
  - By: Catherine Benoit
Submissions
- Guide for Authors
Reviews
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
  - By: Shaun Gunner
- The Evolution of Modern Fantasy: From Antiquarianism to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series
  - By: John Doherty
Well, I’m back
- "How does J.R.R. Tolkien inspire us?"
  - By: Rosalinda Haddon
Inside Art
- By: Jenny Dolfen, Anke Eissmann, Alexander Genov, Tomás Hijo, Loriane Mauer, Gordon Palmer