Mallorn (journal)

Mallorn was founded in October 1970 as the successor to Vera Chapman's Belladonna's Broadsheet to be the magazine of The Tolkien Society. However, due to the difficulty in producing Mallorn regularly, its functions as a bulletin to Society members were moved to the new publication of Amon Hen (the first issue was known as Henneth Annûn); this enabled Mallorn to fashion itself into the more scholarly publication that exists today.

Although the description of potential articles has little changed over the years, Mallorn's focus has traditionally been on scholarly articles. There has been recent criticism from Society members that both poetry and academic articles are being "ostracised" under the new editor. Gee does not refute this by saying that he is reluctant to publish poetry because he does not see himself as a competent judge, therefore the publishing of poetry is "extremely unlikely", however, he has since "relented" and publishes poetry based on whether he likes it or not.

Due to publishing limitations, Gee also recommends that scholarly articles should be "shorter and more accessible" (unless they are "truly stellar pieces of scholarship") in order to fit in more articles which appeal to a broader range of membership. In his third issue as editor, Gee re-iterated that articles should be shorter (maximum of 4,000 words for a commentary piece; 1,000 words for a review), and that he would not be publishing serialisations. Gee's rationale is:

• Rosemary & Darroll Pardoe: The Mallorn 1
• Laurelindorenan Smial (c/o Steve Thomson): Mallorn 2–4
• Vera Chapman: Mallorn 5
• Jon Harvey: Mallorn 6
• Numenorean Smial, Hatch End: Mallorn 7
• Jonathan Simons: Mallorn 8–9
• Kevin Young: Mallorn 10–12
• Susan Rule: Mallorn 13–16
• Susan Rule (with Steve Pillinger): Mallorn 17
• Jenny Curtis: Mallorn 18–22
• Denis Bridoux: Mallorn 23–27
• David Doughan: Mallorn 28-29
• Patricia Reynolds and John Ellison: Mallorn 30–32
• Patricia Reynolds and Glen GoodKnight: Mallorn 33 as Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
• Patricia Reynolds and John Ellison: Mallorn 34–36
• Len Sanford: Mallorn 37–44
• Henry Gee: Mallorn 45–46
• Henry Gee (with Colin Sullivan as production designer): Mallorn 47–54
• Helen Armstrong (with Mike Afford as production editor): Mallorn 55
• Rosalinda Haddon (with Mike Afford as production editor): Mallorn 56 - Mallorn 59
• Luke Shelton (with Live Knudsen and Nick Polk): Mallorn 60 - present

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