Mallorn 47

Mallorn 47
Editor	Henry Gee
Cover artist	Becky Hitchin
Publisher	The Tolkien Society
Printer	The Printed Word, Horsham, UK
Released	Spring 2009
Format	A4 stapled paperback, glossy
Pages	52
ISSN	0308-6674
Preceded by	Mallorn 46
Followed by	Mallorn 48

Mallorn 47 is the forty-seventh issue of the The Tolkien Society's biannual journal Mallorn, published in Spring 2009.

Contents

• Cover Art
  • By: Becky Hitchin
• Editorial
  • "The ode goes ever on"
    • By: Henry Gee
• Letters
• Reviews
  • "The shores of Faery, revisited": On Fairy Stories
    • By: David Doughan
  • "The memetics of culture": How Tradition Works by Michael D.C. Drout
    • By: Johanna Kershaw
  • "Fear and loathing in Middle-earth": The Mirror Crack'd edited by Lynn Forest-Hill
    • By: Joel Franz
  • "Ringing ever onwards": Proceedings of the 2005 Tolkien Conference
    • By: Colin Duriez
  • "Echoes of strange music": The Darkling and the Lady by Christine Davidson
    • By: Lynn Forest-Hill
  • "Away with the fairies": Tolkien, Race and Cultural History by Dimitra Fimi
    • By: Henry Gee
• Commentary
  • "The ogre in the dungeon"
    • By: Alex Lewis
  • "The curious case of Denethor and the Palantír"
    • By: Jessica Yates
  • "The realm of Faërie, and the shadow of Homer in Narnia and Middle-earth"
    • By: Louis Markos
  • "Real and imaginary history in The Lord of the Rings"
    • By: Franco Manni
  • "Tolkien's further indebtedness to Haggard"
    • By: Dale Nelson
• Poetry
  • The Passing of the People of Peace
    • By: Julie Sinclair
  • Neldoreth Revisited
    • By: Carol Brownlow
  • The Forest
    • By: Carol Brownlow
• Fiction
  • The importance of beans and turnips
    • By: rpg
  • An afternoon at the seaside
    • By: Lynn Forest-Hill
• Well, I'm Back
  • "Dragon meat for dinner"
    • By: Zack Cramer
• Back Cover
  • By: Lorenzo Daniele
• Inside Art
  • By: Davide Cattaneo, Lorenzo Daniele and Sue Wookey

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See also

• Mallorn, the large tree after which the journal is named
• List of Mallorn issues
• Mallorn cover art gallery
• Amon Hen, the bi-monthly bulletin of The Tolkien Society

External links

• The Tolkien Society
• About Mallorn
• This issue at The Tolkien Society website