Tolkien Gleanings #141.

* Over 150 new Tolkien letters have now been published in the handsome expanded book of the Letters. There’s now a handy free guide to help the busy Tolkien scholar to quickly spot the new revelations.

* Word on Fire has the article “The Expanded and Revised Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: A First Look”.

* New at the Journal of Tolkien Research, the ‘Tolkien’s Animals’ special-issue is now available. Has “Tolkien’s Eagles: Aves ex machina” and “Foxes, dancing bears, and wolves”, plus “Tolkien’s Tevildo” (‘Prince of Cats’) among others, together with “Tolkien’s Animals: A Bibliography”.

* A special Tolkien issue of Brazilian journal Ipotesi, with a focus on landscapes, space and walking. Includes a number of Portuguese articles, and here are some of the titles in English…

    – “Martyrdom in Paradise: a symbolic representation of depression in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion.”
    – “From map to myth: the geography of Middle-earth.”
    – “Space as a secondary narrative in The Lord of the Rings.”
    – “About Hobbits and the Great War: The Journey of the Ordinary Hero.”
    – “Walking through elven and human spaces: an analysis of heterotopias and affective cartographies.”

* And finally, a new free Librivox audiobook reading of G.K. Chesterton’s non-fiction book William Blake (1910, 1920), which may interest some due to the 1920 re-issue and Tolkien’s interest in Chesterton.