Now online, a new issue of the leading journal Tolkien Studies, Volume 15, 2018. Especially interesting for me are…
* “Doors into Elf-mounds: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords”. No abstract, but it appears to be a brisk survey and summary of such?
* “Tolkien’s Classical Beowulf and England’s Heroic Age”. No abstract, but it appears to be on the influence of Virgil and similar authors Tolkien would have known from his days at school and university?
* And of course the usual The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2015 and Bibliography (in English) for 2016.
The latest Mythlore, September 2018 is also available. In which the lead essay is of interest…
* “”No Pagan Ever Loved His God”: Tolkien, Thompson, and The Beautification of The Gods”. On the Catholic poet Francis Thompson, now deeply unfashionable but whose best work was once ranked alongside Blake. The young Tolkien was a strong late admirer. At first glance it looks like Thomson’s Essays are being considered here as an influence, and especially one on paganism.