Tolkien Gleanings #257

* A substantial new review has been added to the latest Journal of Tolkien Research, a detailed 40-page critical review of The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien (2024). Freely available online.

* A new edition of the scholarly Spanish Tolkien journal Aelfwine. Includes the English essay “Middle-earth Without Clovers: Unveiling the Myth of ‘Celticism’ in Tolkien”. Freely available online.

* “Jung, Campbell, Tolkien, and the Christian Moral Vision”. An old essay dug up from 20+ years ago, and now freely republished online.

* A forthcoming conference strand will be on “Hobbits in the 25th century: enjoying Tolkien’s Legendarium into the Future”. Perhaps partly interesting in relation to the likelihood of a specialist AI ingesting and then ’embodying’ all of a writer’s letters, works, and essays. A related topic of discussion at the event is “AI and the future of literary preservation”. Abstracts are due before 1st January 2025.

* A December 2024 call for submissions to Gramarye , the journal of the venerable Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. Deadline 21st March 2025. No special theme for the issue, but submissions must relate… “to literary and historical approaches to fairy tales, fantasy, Gothic, magic realism, [or] science fiction and speculative fiction”.

* And finally, a page from the Forum Auctions catalogue for 30th November 2023…