A large special issue of the German open-access journal Thersites, themed ‘There and Back Again: Tolkien and the Greco-Roman World’ and with deep articles in English. Including…
“Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity”. (Very briefly “sketches the status of the research on the influence of Greco-Roman antiquity on the works of Tolkien” in terms of publication, including mentioning two non-English books I’d not heard of).
“Tolkien’s Ithilien and the Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean”. (Excellent, and with a large bibliography).
“Ents, Sacred Groves, and the Cost of Desecration”. (Some discussion of sacred groves and the scholarly debates about pre-Christian animism and sacred trees. Unaware that Tolkien’s personal tutor at Oxford was one of the world’s great experts on animist ethnology).
“(Classical) Narratives of Decline in Tolkien”. (A small typo on the dating… “Tolkien had an extensive training in Classics at King Edward’s School (KES), the prestigious grammar school that he attended from 1900 to 1910” — he was actually there until the end of July 1911).