Publications 

In addition to the items listed below, I have contributed letters and brief items to Beyond Bree: The Newsletter of the Tolkien Special Interest Group of American Mensa, CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, and other publications.

"The ‘Starry Heavens’ of the Tolkien Family.”  Beyond Bree Aug. 2012: 4.

"Other Anniversaries: The Fiftieth Anniversary of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and the Forty-Fifth Anniversaries of Poems and Songs of Middle Earth, The Road Goes Ever On, and Smith of Wootton Major." Beyond Bree July 2012: 3-5.

"Addendum: Donald Swann’s The Road Goes Ever On." Beyond Bree July 2012: 5.

Review of The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War, by Peter Englund. Beyond Bree July 2012: 7-8.

"Days of the Craze No. 7: ‘Fantasy Fandom’ Column Begins with Tolkien and Imaginative Development." Beyond Bree June 2012: 6.

"Janet Spens’ Spenser’s Faerie Queene: An Interpretation" (Jack and the Bookshelf #18) CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 43: 2 (Mar.-Apr. 2012): 15, 16.

"Days of the Craze No. 6: Ace Books Is Impudent and Read Magazine Does Its Bit." Beyond Bree May 2012: 4.

"Middle-earth as Sixties Nightclub and Seventies Family Fare" (Robert Irwin’s Memoirs of a Dervish and Leonard Wibberley’s Voyage by Bus). Beyond Bree April 2012: 4-5.

"Days of the Craze No. 5: The Two Trees" (Gerald Jonas’s 1965 Tolkien reading memoir for the New York Times Book Review). Beyond Bree Apr. 2012: 4.

"Days of the Craze No. 4: Taking Tolkien Cross-Country by Motor-Scooter" (Peter S. Beagle’s I See by My Outfit). Beyond Bree March 2012: 1.

"The Immortalization Commission and the N. I. C. E." CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 43:1 (Jan.-Feb. 2012): 17.

2011

"John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress" (Jack and the Bookshelf #17). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 42:6 (Nov.-Dec. 2011): 8.

"Tolkien by a Colleague and Friend." Review of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Double Worlds and Creative Process: Language and Life, by Arne Zettersten. CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 42:6 (Nov.-Dec. 2011): 9, 7. 2

"Days of the Craze No. 3: Marvel Comics Blends Conan, Mu, and Middle-earth?" Beyond Bree December 2011: 6.

"Days of the Craze No. 2: ‘The Hobbit War.’" Beyond Bree Nov. 2011: 6.

"Days of the Craze No. 1: San Francisco’s Shire School." Beyond Bree Oct. 2011: 4. [First of a series on the 1965-69 Tolkien fad.]

"Tolkien References in Marvel’s X-Men Comics." Beyond Bree Oct. 2011: 5.

"Lord of the Paperback Blurbs." Beyond Bree Sept. 2011: 5. [Advertising in pre-1970 American paperback books that referred to Tolkien.]

"Milton’s Comus" (Jack and the Bookshelf #16). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 42:4 (July-Aug. 2011): 10.

"America Meets The Lord of the Rings in the Mid-Fifties." Beyond Bree August 2011: 1-3.

"Lord Dunsany" [brief piece about the noted fantasy writer and the recent death of his grandson]. Beyond Bree July 2011: 3.

"There and Back Again and Other Travel Books of the 1930s." Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society 51 (Spring 2011): 19-23.

"The St. Anne’s Household in C. S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength." Anamnesis: A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and "Things Divine" online. Posted on 3 June 2011.

"London’s House of the Fantasy Masters." Review of A History of Kelmscott House, by Helen Elletson. Beyond Bree May 2011: 6.

"Back Then." [Reading Tolkien’s fiction in the 1960s and early 1970s] Beyond Bree May 2011: 7.

"Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur" (Jack and the Bookshelf #15) CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 42:1 (Jan.-Feb. 2011): 17.

"Tolkien in Fairford." Beyond Bree Feb. 2011: 1-4.

"Wartime Britain." Beyond Bree Feb. 2011: 5. 3

"‘Bill Stickers’ and Her Narnian Tapestry: Tolkien, Lewis, and the Thirties." Review of The Thirties: An Intimate History by Juliet Gardiner. Beyond Bree Jan. 2011: 1-4.

2010

"’Bill Stickers’ and Her Narnian Tapestry: Tolkien, Lewis, and the Thirties." Review of The Thirties: An Intimate History by Juliet Gardiner. Beyond Bree Jan. 2011: 1-4.

"Anthony Trollope’s Doctor Thorne" (Jack and the Bookshelf #14) CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 41:5 (Sept.-Oct. 2010; Whole Number 439): 9.

"H. Rider Haggard’s Montezuma’s Daughter" (Jack and the Bookshelf #13) CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 41:5 (Sept.-Oct. 2010; Whole Number 439): 8.

"Phyllis Elinor Sandeman’s Treasure on Earth" (Jack and the Bookshelf #12). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 41:5 (Sept.-Oct. 2010; Whole Number 439): 9, 11.

"Austerity Britain and Tolkien." Review essay on Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 by David Kynaston. Beyond Bree Nov. 2010: 1-3.

Review of We Shall Eat and Drink Again [1944] ed. Louis Golding and Andre Simon. Beyond Bree Nov. 2010: 3-4.

"Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp’s Land of Unreason." (Jack and the Bookshelf #9). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 41:4 ((July-August 2010): 16, 11.

"Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables" (Jack and the Bookshelf #8). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 41:3 (May-June 2010; Whole Number 437): 11. This was the eleventh "Bookshelf" piece to appear.

"Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp’s Land of Unreason" (Jack and the Bookshelf #9). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 41:2 (Mar.-Apr. 2010; Whole Number 436): 10-11. This was the tenth "Bookshelf" piece to appear.

"Where Are the Large Animals in Middle-earth?" Beyond Bree April 2010: 6.

"George Rostrevor Hamilton’s The Tell-Tale Article" (Jack and the Bookshelf #11) CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 41:1 (Jan.-Feb. 2010): 10. Despite the numbering, this was the ninth "Bookshelf" piece to appear.

Review of Ents, Elves and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J. R. R. Tolkien by Matthew Dickerson and Jonathan Evans. Beyond Bree March 2010: 1-4. 4

"Tolkien as Locavore." Beyond Bree March 2010: 12.

"Being There for Kay-Elle" as "Being There for Kay-Ella" [sic]. (story) Doppelganger Broadsheet published electronically March 2010.

"Vestiges of The Lost World in Tolkien’s Fantasy?" Doppelganger Broadsheet published electronically January 2010. Reprint of my paper from Beyond Bree Feb. 2009.

2009

"Ślady ‘Świata zaginionego’ w twórczości Tolkiena." Ancalima No. 2 (Poland): 37-38.

Translation of my paper "Vestiges of The Lost World in Tolkien’s Fantasy?" from Beyond Bree Feb. 2009.

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"Some Shakespearean Authorities" (Jack and the Bookshelf #10). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 40:5 (Sept.-Oct. 2009): 16. Despite the numbering, this was the eighth "Bookshelf" piece to appear.

"‘Pure Gold All Through.’" Review of Hunting the Unicorn: A Critical Biography of Ruth Pitter, by Don King. CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 40:3 (May-June 2009): 18-19.

"J. M. Barrie’s Mary Rose" (Jack and the Bookshelf #7). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 40:3 (May-June 2009): 20.

"Tolkien’s ‘Most Treasured Volume’: C. A. Johns’ Flowers of the Field." Beyond Bree May 2009: 1-4.

"Tolkien’s Further Indebtedness to Haggard." Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society #47 (Spring 2009): 38-40.

"The Saga of the Volsungs: Comments." Beyond Bree March 2009: 6-7.

"Vestiges of The Lost World [by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] in Tolkien’s Fantasy?" Beyond Bree Feb. 2009: 6.

"A Jamesian Source for Tolkien’s Conception of Gollum?" Beyond Bree Jan. 2009: 1.

2008

"Tolkien, Dickens, and ‘Mundanity.’" Beyond Bree Dec. 2008: 2. 5

"Bohun Lynch’s Menace from the Moon" (Jack and the Bookshelf #6). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 39:6 (Nov.-Dec. 2008; Whole Number 428): 16.

"Tolkien and M. R. James and J. S. Le Fanu." Beyond Bree Nov. 2008: 2-3.

"Orwell, Waugh the Same Man?" (Review of The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War by David Lebedoff.) Grand Forks Herald 5 Oct. 2008: D4.

"Sir Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering" (Jack and the Bookshelf #5). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 39:5 (Sept.-Oct. 2008; Whole Number 427): 16.

"Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End" (Jack and the Bookshelf #4). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 39:4 (July-Aug. 2008; Whole Number 426): 12.

"Charles Dickens’s Bleak House" (Jack and the Bookshelf #3). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 39:3 (Whole Number 425; May-June 2008): 14.

"William Morris at Home and Abroad." Beyond Bree Jan. 2008: 1-3.

2007

"Pastor Arrhenius and the Maiden Brita" [story]. In Strange Tales Vol. 2. Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2007. Pages 115-150.

"Eric Frank Russell’s Sinister Barrier" (Jack and the Bookshelf #2). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 38:4 (Whole Number 420; July-Aug. 2007): 18-9.

"Tolkien and H. G. Wells." Beyond Bree Sept. 2007: 5.

"Their Botanic Majesties’ Bequest: Tolkien, Morris, Potter, Haggard, Lewis." Beyond Bree Aug. 2007: 1-5.

Review of The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, by Diana Pavlac Glyer. Tolkien Studies 4 (2007): 235-238.

"Tolkien Expands Middle-earth History with 'Children of Hurin.'" Review of The Children of Hurin, by J. R. R. Tolkien. Grand Forks Herald 3 June 2007: D5, D4.

"Charles Lamb’s Essays of Elia" (Jack and the Bookshelf #1). CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 38:2 (Whole Number 418; March-April 2007): 10.

2006

Two entries in Michael D. C. Drout, editor. J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. [1] "Howard, Robert E. (1906-36)." Pages 286-7. [2] "Literary Influences, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." Pages 366-378.

"The Paths of the Dead, Eyrbyggja Saga, and Terror in War." Beyond Bree November 2006: 6.

"Tolkien's Aragorn and Rider Haggard's Heart of the World." Beyond Bree Oct. 2006: 7-8.

"The Name 'Boffin.'" Beyond Bree Aug 2006: 5. (Bylined Mark Hooker, actually by me.)

"Is Lewis' Ransom Trilogy Indebted to 'Yank Magazine' Science Fiction?" CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 37:4 (July-August 2006; Whole Number 414): 18-19.

"A 'Scientifiction' Source for Lewis' The Great Divorce." CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 36 [sic; actually 37]:3 (May-June 2006; Whole Number 413): 18.

"Haggard's She: Burke's Sublime in a Popular Romance." Mythlore 24:3/4 (Issue 93/94, Winter-Spring 2006): 111-117.

"Little-Known Books (and a Little-Known Story) in Lewis’ Background: A Fifth Selection." CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 37:2 (#412) (March-April 2006): 8-15.

"An Invisible Enemy at the Volcano's Edge: Montezuma's Daughter and The Lord of the Rings." Beyond Bree April 2006: 2-3.

"Further Notes on Tolkien, Haggard, and Africa." Beyond Bree March 2006: 5.

Review of A Morning After War: C. S. Lewis and WWI by K. J. Gilchrist. CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 37:1 (#411), Jan.-Feb. 2006: 18.

"'Queer, Exciting, and Debatable': Tolkien and Shorthouse's John Inglesant." Beyond Bree Jan. 2006: 4-5.

"Haggard's The Treasure of the Lake and Tolkien's 'Tower of Cirith Ungol' Episode." Beyond Bree Jan. 2006: 8.

2005

"Haggard’s Heu-Heu and The Hobbit." Beyond Bree December 2005: 2. 7

"Haggard’s She and Tolkien." Beyond Bree November 2005: 5.

"Wagner, Holst, Sibelius: Lewis's Interest in Three Composers." CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society 36:3 (#407), May-June 2005: 12-15.

"Little Nell and Frodo the Halfling." Tolkien Studies 2 (2005): 245-248.

"Tolkien and R. H. Benson’s Lord of the World." Beyond Bree August 2005: 7.

"Tolkien Apocrypha." Beyond Bree March 2005: 4.

"Tolkienian Remarks" and "My Question Answered." Beyond Bree Feb. 2005: 6.

"Garn!" [discussion of slang term] Beyond Bree Jan. 2005: 5.

2004

"Little-Known Books in Lewis’s Background: A Fourth Selection." CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society Vo. 35 #6 (Whole Number 404) (Nov.-Dec. 2004): 1-6.

"Possible Echoes of Blackwood and Dunsany in Tolkien’s Fantasy." Tolkien Studies 1 (West Virginia University Press, 2004).

"Fantastic Saga." Review of Blood and Judgment by Lars Walker. Touchstone 17:3 (April 2004): 43.

Review of From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Letters Between Arthur C. Clarke and C. S. Lewis. Touchstone 17:3 (April 2004): 46.

"Martyn Skinner." [Article about the British poet.] CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society Vo. 35 #2 (Whole Number 400) (March-April 2004): 16-17.

"Namárië to All That." Review of Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth. CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society Vo. 35 #2 (Whole Number 400) (March-April 2004): 18-19.

The above review first appeared, in a translation into Russian, in the Russian-language Tolkienian website, Arda-na-Kulichkah in Feb. 2004.

2003

"Bright Lights Under the Shadow of the Hideous Strength: The St. Anne’s Household – and Our Own Households." Keynote paper for C. S. Lewis Readers’ Weekend (5-6 Dec. 2003), Schwan Center, near Trego, Wisconsin. 8

"Antiquarian Allusions and Inventions in ‘Charalampia’." The John Meade Falkner Society Journal vol. 1 #4 (July 2003): 25-27.

"Tom Bombadil and the ‘Point of Rest’." Beyond Bree June 2003: 5.

"Tolkien and Aesthetic Formation." Beyond Bree May 2003: 3.

"Lewis in Wartime." Review of C. S. Lewis at the BBC: Messages of Hope in the Darkness of War, by Justin Phillips. Touchstone vol. 16 #3: 51.

2002

"Rings of Love: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Four Loves." Touchstone vol. 15 #1: 48-50. This article was also printed, as "The Lord of the Rings and the Four Loves," in Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society #40 (Nov. 2002): 29-31.

("The Lord of the Rings and the Four Loves" is cited on pp. 204, 209, 218 and 310 of Tolkien in the Land of Heroes, by Anne C. Petty [Cold Spring Press, 2003].)

"Imagination and the Health of the Soul." Review of Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds by Peter Schakel. Touchstone vol. 15 #9:47-49.

"The Bright Sadness of Arvo Pärt." Touchstone vol. 15 #2: 42-46.

"Lewis and The Angel in the House." [Lewis’s interest in Victorian poet Coventry Patmore.] CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society vol. 33 #3&4: 12-16.

"Little-Known Literary Works in Lewis’s Background: A Third Selection." CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society vol. 33 #5: 1-11.

"Unpacking Grimms." Review of The Owl, the Raven and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms’ Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy. Touchstone vol. 15 #5: 47-48.

"Writers in the James Tradition: J. Meade Falkner." John Meade Falkner Society Journal vol. 1 #3: 28-31.

Review of The Inklings Handbook by Colin Duriez and David Porter. CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society vol. 33 #1: 12-14.

Review of The Shape of Sola Scriptura by Keith A. Mathison. Logia Vol. 11 #3: 41-42.

2001

"Tolkien: Why Is He Important Today?" [Contribution to symposium.] Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society #39: 39-40.

"Metaphysical Music." [Article on English composer John Tavener.] Touchstone vol. 14 #4: 45-47.

"Fascinating Lewis." Review of We Remember C. S. Lewis ed. David Graham. Touchstone vol. 14 #7: 47.

"Little-Known Books in Lewis’s Background: Part II." CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society vol. 32 #9&10: 1-9.

Review of C. S. Lewis: Poet by Don King. CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society vol. 32 #9&10: 12-15.

Review of God at War: The Bible and Spiritual Conflict by Gregory A. Boyd. Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology vol. 10 #2: 54-56.

2000

"Dark Poet." Review of Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 and Coleridge: darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes. Touchstone vol. 13 #2: 37.

"C. S. Lewis on Weird Fantasy." CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society vol. 31 #10 & 11: 1-13, 16.

"The Corners of Paradise." [Article about British Romantic artist Samuel Palmer.] Touchstone vol. 13 #5: 31-34.

"The Golden Fog." [Review of a biography of Bede Griffiths, Beyond the Darkness by Shirley du Boulay.] Touchstone vol. 13 #8: 38-40.

Review of C. S. Lewis – At Home in Ireland by David Bleakley. Touchstone vol. 13 #10: 37.

"C. S. Lewis’ ‘Supernatural Horror in Literature’." Fungi vol. 2 #19: 14-24.

"Novels by George MacDonald (1824-1905)." St. Andrew’s Society News Jan. 2000 (Fargo, No. Dak. and Moorhead, Minn.)

1999

Review of Shattering the Myths of Darwinism by Richard Milton. Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology vol. 8 #4: 57. 10

"Russalka" [story]. Enigmatic Tales #6: 104-124.

1998

"The Uncertain Legacy of Owen Barfield." Touchstone vol. 11 #3: 36-38.

Review of Echoes of a Native Land by Serge Schmemann. Touchstone vol. 11 #3: 39.

"Notes and Questions on G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday. Fungi vol. 2 #17:13-14.

"Notes on George MacDonald’s Lilith." Fungi vol. 2 #18: 46-58.

1997

Review of audiocassettes of The Place of the Lion, Descent into Hell, Many Dimensions, and All Hallows’ Eve by Charles Williams. Canadian C. S. Lewis Journal #92: 57-58.

Review of Truth on Trial: Liberal Education Be Hanged by Robert K. Carlson. Touchstone vol. 10 #2: 36.

Review of A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy. Touchstone vol. 10 #4: 44.

"John Mason Neale and the Christian Heritage." Article included in The Cyber Hymnal.

1996

Review of John Tavener: Glimpses of Paradise by Geoffrey Haydon. Touchstone vol. 9 #4: 36-37.

Review of The Life and Work of John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 by Michael Chandler. Touchstone vol. 9 #1:38-39.

My article "Lovecraft and the Burkean Sublime" (see entry under 1991) was cited in S. T. Joshi, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (West Warwick, R.I.: Necronomicon, 1996).

"Martin Luther." Wingfold: Celebrating the Works of George MacDonald #12: 8-9.

Review of Not of This World: The Life and Teaching of Fr. Seraphim Rose by Monk Damascene Christensen; Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith ed. by Peter Gillquist; Coming Home: Why Protestant Clergy Are Becoming Orthodox 11

ed. by Peter Gillquist; Anglican-Orthodox Pilgrimage ed. by Franklin Billerbeck; An Introduction to Western Rite Orthodoxy ed. by Michael Trigg; Dancing Alone: The Quest for Orthodox Faith in the Age of False Religions by Frank Schaeffer. Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology vol. 4 #2: 63-64.

"Powers of the Air" [story]. Tales from Tartarus ed. by R. B. Russell and Rosalie Parker. Horam, East Sussex: Tartarus Press. Pages 37-55.

"Window on Heaven." [Article on English composer John Tavener]. Grand Forks Herald 30 Sept.

1994

"John Mason Neale: Priest and Poet." Wingfold: Celebrating the Works of George MacDonald #5: 49-52.

Review of John Mason Neale and the Quest for Sobornost by Leon Litvack. The Bride of Christ: The Journal of Lutheran Liturgical Renewal vol. 19 #1: 31.

"Lady Stanhope’s Manuscript" [story]. Lady Stanhope’s Manuscript and Other Supernatural Stories ed. Barbara and Christopher Roden. Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press. Pages 28-52.

1993

"George MacDonald and William Law." Wingfold: Celebrating the Works of George MacDonald #3: 43-45.

Review of Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic by Andrew Weeks. Orts: The Newsletter of the George MacDonald Society #28: 6.

1991

"Lovecraft and the Burkean Sublime." Lovecraft Studies #24: 2-5.

"Clark’s Dream in ‘The Great God Pan’: Two Classical Allusions." Avallaunius: The Journal of the Arthur Machen Society #7: 19-24.

1990

"’But This Time It’s True’: C. S. Lewis and William Law." CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society vol. 22 #1: 1-10. 12

"Arthur Machen and ‘Heavenly Materiality.’" Machenalia Volume 1, ed. Ray Rusell. Lewes, East Sussex: Tartarus Press. Pages 1-4.

"Arthur Jermyn Was a Yahoo: Swift and Modern Horror Fiction." Studies in Weird Fiction #7: 3-7.

1989

"MacDonald and Jacob Boehme." North Wind: The Journal of the George MacDonald Society #8: 24-36.