Tolkien Gleanings #295
* Available to members of the Tolkien Society, a new issue of Amon Hen. Among the contents of the new #312…
– A long lead article on Christopher Tolkien’s Lectures at Oxford
– The Power of the Web (spiders in Middle-earth)
– A short review of A Sense of Tales Untold.
– A short profile of Cirdan the shipwright.
– A long look at what was lost, and what survives or has been restored, at Sarehole.
I see that a regular Layout & Graphic Designer (Adobe) is still required.
* Lingwe on “A newly discovered primary account of Arthur Tolkien’s death”.
* John Garth on how Tolkien left the land of his birth 130 years ago today, and the sea voyage he took. Including some details of the weather the three year-old then encountered in England, after the burning veldt of the Orange Free State…
“Britain had endured a harsh winter, with the Thames nearly blocked by ice in mid-February and, on 24th March, central and East England enduring one of the worst storms on record, with factory chimneys and church steeples demolished and 14 lives lost. The summer to come was very wet indeed.”
* Fellowship & Fairydust dusts off the hand-trowel and goes Excavating the Inklings and Little-Known Authors: Interview with scholar Douglas A. Anderson.
* The second part of Dimitra Fimi’s new blog-post series is now online, On Tolkien’s Letter 131 (2): “Incarnate” good and evil.
* Three more 90-minute lectures from University of Chicago professor Rachel Fulton Brown, The Making of Feanor, The Marring of Feanor and The Fall of the Followers. Originally part of her paywalled series ‘The Forge of Tolkien’ (2021), but now being gradually posted free on YouTube.
* New on Archive.org to download, The Pre-Christian Religions of the North. Research and Reception, Vol. 2 – from c. 1830 to the Present (2019, out-of-print according to Amazon UK). Includes chapters on “Old Norse Mythology in Anglophone Fantasy and Science Fiction from 1940” and “Norse Medievalism in Children’s Literature in English”.
* “The Hobbit published in Scots Gaelic”, as A’ Hobat, no A-null’s Air Ais A-rithist (2025)…
“With the help of a grant from the Gaelic Books Council, the project took five years to complete and now features the original 1937 cover art.”
* A new double-album from the noted Norwegian neo-romantic composer Martin Romberg, Arts and Signs (2025), available now. The first of the two albums evokes Tolkien’s works.