Time for another “MegaTolk”. Newly appeared interesting items on Tolkien that are open and public, since my last round-up in which was back in May 2022…

* Worlds Made of Heroes: a tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien. A complete scholarly ebook in open access, from the University of Porto. Includes, among others…

– The importance of songs in the making of heroes.

– Wounds in the world: the shared symbolism of death-sites in Middle-earth.

– From epic narrative to music : Tolkien’s universe as inspiration for The First Age of Middle-earth: a Symphony.

– Character and perspective: the multi-quest in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

– Geoffrey of Monmouth and J.R.R. Tolkien: myth-making and national identity in the twelfth and twentieth centuries. (Also a useful survey of Tolkien’s West Midlands patriotisms)

– Mythology and cosmology in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

* Song Lyrics in The Hobbit: What They Tell Us (Detects in the lyrics the different relationships that each race has with time).

* “Pearls” of Pearl: Medieval Appropriations in Tolkien’s Mythology. (Excellent study of the likely influence of Pearl)

* The image of the tree as the embodiment of cosmological and solar aspects in J.R.R. Tolkien’s works.

* The Joys of Latin and Christmas Feasts: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham.

* Medieval Animals in Middle-earth. (Found from 2021).