Tolkien Gleanings #122.

* A new thirty minute Brandon Vogt and Holly Ordway Interview for Word on Fire. Not the same as the previous Word on Fire podcast interview about Ordway’s new Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography book, which was a long pre-publication interview with Michael Ward.

* Wheaton College has two events celebrating the launch of Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography, on 25th-26th September 2023.

* A Spanish translation of the book Tolkien’s Faith will be published by Loyola in spring 2024.

* Holly Ordway has posted a new report on the recent Tolkien’s Words and Worlds event at Oxford University…

Simon Horobin’s excellent paper “‘Never Trust a Philologist’: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Place of Philology in English Studies” was illuminating of the academic context that Tolkien found himself in when he arrived at Pembroke as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon.

* In northern England, the Barnsley Museum now has an official page for The Magic of Middle Earth touring exhibition. On this stop the exhibition will be free, and will run from… “30th September 2023 – 6th April 2024”.

* And finally, new in the classical antiquity journal Antigone, “Middle-earth Songs: 50 Years After Tolkien”.