Mythopoeic Awards - Scholarship

Following is a list of the final ballot nominees for the two Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards categories: Inklings Studies and General Myth & Fantasy Studies. The books marked with asterisks (and placed first in the list) were the winners. Books are eligible for three years after publication and may appear as finalists for more than one year.

1993

Inklings Studies

Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy by David C. Downing *
J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend, introduction by Judith Priestman.
The Pattern in the Web: The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams by Roma A. King, Jr.
Tolkien: A Critical Assessment by Brian Rosebury

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery *
Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber by Bruce Byfield
Contours of the Fantastic, edited by Michele K. Lanford

1994

Inklings Studies

J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond with the assistance of Douglas A. Anderson *
The Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror by Kath Filmer
J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend, introduction by Judith Priestman.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World by Colin Manlove
Tolkien: A Critical Assessment by Brian Rosebury

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society, and Belief in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature, edited by Kath Filmer *
The Reclamation of a Queen: Guinevere in Modern Fantasy by Barbara Ann Gordon-Wise
For the Childlike: George MacDonald’s Fantasies for Children, edited by Roderick McGillis
Off With Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood by Maria Tatar

1995

Inklings Studies

C.S. Lewis in Context by Doris T. Myers *
The Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror by Kath Filmer
J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend, introduction by Judith Priestman.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World by Colin Manlove
Tolkien: A Critical Assessment by Brian Rosebury

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Old Tales and New Truths: Charting the Bright-Shadow World by James Roy King *
When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development by Lois Rostow Kuznets
For the Childlike: George MacDonald’s Fantasies for Children, edited by Roderick McGillis
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner
Fairy Tale as Myth / Myth as Fairy Tale by Jack Zipes

1996

Inklings Studies

J.R.R. Tolkien, Artist & Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull *
The Fiction of C.S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror by Kath Filmer
The Hobbit: A Journey into Maturity by William H. Green
C.S. Lewis: A Reference Guide, 1972-1988 by Susan Lowenberg
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World by Colin Manlove

Myth and Fantasy Studies

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner *
T.H. White’s The Once and Future King by Elisabeth Brewer
The Seed and the Vision: On the Writing and Appreciation of Children’s Books by Eleanor Cameron
When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development by Lois Rostow Kuznets

1997

Inklings Studies

The Rhetoric of Vision: Essays on Charles Williams edited by Charles A. Huttar and Peter Schakel *
The Hobbit: A Journey into Maturity by William H. Green
C.S. Lewis: A Companion & Guide by Walter Hooper
Charles Williams: A Celebration, edited by Brian Horne

Myth and Fantasy Studies

When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development by Lois Rostow Kuznets *
The Supernatural and English Fiction by Glen Cavaliero
Lord Dunsany, Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination by S.T. Joshi
The Water of the Wondrous Isles, by William Morris, edited, with introduction, notes, and glossary, by Norman Talbot

1998

Inklings Studies

A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Road to Faerie by Verlyn Flieger *
C.S. Lewis Index: Rumours from the Sculptor’s Shop by Janine Goffar
C.S. Lewis: A Companion & Guide by Walter Hooper
Charles Williams: A Celebration, edited by Brian Horne
Finding the Landlord: A Guidebook to C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress by Kathryn Lindskoog

Myth and Fantasy Studies

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant *
The Supernatural and English Fiction by Glen Cavaliero
Lord Dunsany, Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination by S.T. Joshi
Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination by Richard Mathews

1999

Inklings Studies

C.S. Lewis: A Companion & Guide by Walter Hooper *
C.S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer & Mentor by Lionel Adey
Christian Mythmakers by Rolland Hein
Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull

Myth and Fantasy Studies

A Century of Welsh Myth in Children’s Literature by Donna R. White *
Dreams and Wishes: Essays on Writing for Children by Susan Cooper
Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum by Michael Riley
No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock by Marina Warner

2000

Inklings Studies

Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull *
C.S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer & Mentor by Lionel Adey
Tolkien, Man and Myth: A Literary Life by Joseph Pearce
Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness by Carole G. Silver *
King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack
The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art 1840-1920 by Christine Poulson
Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum by Michael Riley
When Dreams Come True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition by Jack Zipes

2001

Inklings Studies

J.R.R. Tolkien, Author of the Century by Tom Shippey *
C.S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer & Mentor by Lionel Adey
J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances, edited by George Clark and Daniel Timmons
The Crisis and the Quest: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Charles Williams by Stephen N. Dunning
Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter

Myth and Fantasy Studies

King Arthur in America by Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack *
The Fantasy Literature of England by C.N. Manlove
The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art 1840-1920 by Christine Poulson
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales edited by Jack Zipes

2002

Inklings Studies

Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter *
J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances, edited by George Clark and Daniel Timmons
Women Among the Inklings: Gender, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams by Candice Fredrick and Sam McBride
C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse by Don W. King

Myth and Fantasy Studies

The Owl, the Raven & the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms’ Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy *
Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson
Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale by Elizabeth Wanning Harries
The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art 1840-1920 by Christine Poulson

2003

Inklings Studies

Beowulf and the Critics by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Michael D.C. Drout *
J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances, edited by George Clark and Daniel Timmons
Imagination and the Arts in C.S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds by Peter J. Schakel
C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse by Don W. King

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Fairytale in the Ancient World by Graham Anderson *
A Charmed Life: The Spirituality of Potterworld by Francis Bridger
The Christian Imagination: G.K. Chesterton on the Arts by Thomas C. Peters
Vast Alchemies: The Life and Work of Mervyn Peake by G. Peter Winnington

2004

Inklings Studies

Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth *
Tolkien the Medievalist, edited by Jane Chance
Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings by Matthew Dickerson
C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse by Don W. King

Myth and Fantasy Studies

The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett *
Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life by Mike Ashley
A Charmed Life: The Spirituality of Potterworld by Francis Bridger
Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most by William Patrick Day
Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit: A Children’s Classic at 100, edited by Margaret Mackey
National Dreams: The remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-century England by Jennifer Schacker

2005

Inklings Studies

War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft *
Tolkien the Medievalist, edited by Jane Chance
Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings by Matthew Dickerson
Bareface: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s Last Novel by Doris T. Myers
Tolkien in the Land of Heroes by Anne C. Petty

Myth and Fantasy Studies

Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Thomas Knight *
Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most by William Patrick Day
The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast by Jerry Griswold
Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom, edited by Teya Rosenberg

2006

Inklings Studies

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull *
Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-earth by Marjorie Burns
Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology by Verlyn Flieger
Smith of Wootton Major: Expanded Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs

Myth and Fantasy Studies

National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England by Jennifer Schacker *
The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast by Jerry Griswold
Readers in Wonderland: The Liberating Worlds of Fantasy Fiction from Dorothy to Harry Potter by Deborah O’Keefe
The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons: Buddhist Themes in Modern Fantasy by David R. Loy & Linda Goodhew

2007

Inklings Studies

Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide * (Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Marjorie Burns, Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-earth (University of Toronto Press, 2005)
Verlyn Flieger, Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology (Kent State University Press, 2005)
Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner, The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2006)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram’s Parzival * (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Simon Blaxland-de Lange, Owen Barfield: Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography (Temple Lodge, 2006)
Jerry Griswold, The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast (Broadview Press, 2004)
Charles Butler, Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children’s Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper (Children’s Literature Association & Scarecrow Press, 2006)
Milly Williamson, The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy (Wallflower, 2006)

2008

Inklings Studies

Diana Pavlac Glyer; appendix by David Bratman, The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community * (Kent State University Press, 2007)
Marjorie Burns, Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien’s Middle-earth (University of Toronto Press, 2005)
Verlyn Flieger, Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology (Kent State University Press, 2005)
Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner, The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2006)
John D. Rateliff, The History of the Hobbit, Part One, Mr Baggins; Part Two, Return to Bag-End (HarperCollins, 2007)

Myth and Fantasy Studies

T.A. Shippey, editor, The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005)
Charles Butler, Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children’s Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper (Children’s Literature Association & Scarecrow Press, 2006)
Heather O’Donoghue, From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
Richard Carl Tuerk, Oz in Perspective: The Magic and Myth of the L. Frank Baum Books (McFarland & Co., 2007)
Milly Williamson, The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy (Wallflower, 2006)