Tolkien Gleanings #52.

* An online partial Film Preview at Archive.org, 15th April 2023. The forthcoming film is The Forge of Friendship: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. This would appear to be the same as the online Web series filmed and VFX’d in London in early 2023, then called Fellowship: Tolkien & Lewis.

“Hosted by: The Internet Archive and co-sponsored by Northwind Institute and C.S. Lewis Society of California as part of their weekend conference on ‘Tolkien & Lewis in a Digital Age’.”

* “Tolkien’s Easter Joy in The Lord of the Rings…

“Tolkien’s use of the date is not some artificial mechanism by which he links his tale to the Christian myth to come, but a deliberate placement of his tale in history, and not just history, but salvation history”.

* A new Journal of Inklings Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1 ($ partial paywall). The lead article is relevant to Tolkien, “The Conversions of C.S. Lewis: Notes on Rethinking Their Chronology and Character”. There are also free public reviews of: The Fall of Numenor; The Road to Fair Elfland: Tolkien on Fairy Stories: An Extended Commentary; An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien; Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey; In the House of Tom Bombadil; and Performing against Annihilation: Identity and Consciousness in J.R.R. Tolkien. Other book reviews, such as for Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism and Critics of Enlightenment, are found to also consider Tolkien.

* And finally, a public lecture on “Holidaying in the Middle Ages”. Being the J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language Inaugural Lecture at Oxford, 6th June 2023.