Tolkien Gleanings #184.

* A call for articles on ‘Fantasy flora / Flore imaginaire’, for a forthcoming special issue of the journal Fantasy Art and Studies. Deadline: 10th June 2024.

* Another sort of call. “We’d like to create the first graphic-novel biography on his life that features his Catholic faith.” Crowdfunding now, with a $23,000 goal.

* The latest issue of St. Austin Review (March/April 2024) is a themed issue on ‘The Victorian Age in Literature’. Note the one-page article “Frodo Baggins: A Dickensian Hero”. Not freely online.

* The Federalist magazine has a new podcast discussing “Tolkien’s Warning”… his “writings and warnings about power apply today”.

* New on YouTube, a recording of Tolkien Colloquium 2024: Emotions in Middle-earth. In English, with five presentations.

* New on YouTube, a recording of Conferenza: Tolkien e il gioco (‘Tolkien and the game’). In Italian. I can’t find more about the event, but skimming YouTube’s auto-translation subtitles suggests it’s about tabletop role-playing games.

* The March 2024 Update for the Digital Tolkien Project.

* And finally, in last week’s Country Life magazine, “The very nature of Middle-earth”, an article loosely woven around the Malvern Hills and Tolkien. The article is now online in full, at least in the UK.