Pipe-smoking in Middle-earth is now in a third edition at $17 (September 2022).

Medievalism, the Lost Book, and Handicraft in The Lord of the Rings (the idea of the ‘lost book’)

“What’s in a Name?” Tolkien and St. Philip Neri…

“The Congregation of the [Birmingham] Oratory itself was established in the sixteenth century by St. Philip Neri, who, despite having very little name-recognition in the wider world, is a major figure in Church history”

Catholic Culture podcast interviews Carl Hostetter on the recent book The Nature of Middle-earth.

A new review of Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Being and Middle-earth (2020)

In French, Les Lettres du Pere Noel de J.R.R. Tolkien : les metamorphoses editoriales d’un corpus epistolaire fictionnel (J.R.R. Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas: the editorial metamorphoses of a fictional epistolary corpus) (HTML, so easily auto-translated).