Tolkien Gleanings #347
* “American Tolkien Society Collection now available for research”, though only on-site and in person at Bowling Green State University (Ohio, USA). As of October 2025, the collection is…
“now fully processed and available to researchers. The finding aid can be accessed through the University Libraries’ Finding Aids website. Spanning more than 40 years, this remarkable collection documents the evolution of Tolkien fandom from the 1970s through the 2010s. It includes organizational papers, correspondence, written works, artwork, promotional materials, and publications created or collected by the society, including extensive content related to its journal, Minas Tirith Evening-Star.”
* A new Journal of Inklings Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2 (October 2025), now online. Articles include, among others…
– Revealed: Tolkien’s 1939 Lecture on Fairy-stories (free online).
– Note on a Personal Acquaintance with Tolkien, by Fr. Geoffrey G. Attard ($ paywall).
– Several book reviews of relevance, including on Tolkien and the Gothic, and Tolkien and Romanticism.
* From Eastern Europe, a sophisticated undergraduate dissertation in linguistics titled “Word-Formation in Fiction: Compounds in The Lord of the Rings” (2024). In English, and freely available online.
* The Tolkien Guide has a short review of Doomed to Die: An A-Z of Death In Tolkien. Usefully, some of the interior illustrations are shown. Thus potential buyers can see if the style is to their liking. The slim hardcover book is due to ship in a few days.
* The Tolkien & Illustration blog has an Oxonmoot diary 2025, with photographs.
* A Pilgrim In Narnia on “C.S. Lewis and the Art of Blurbology”.
* And finally, Editorial Erase, a new quality publishing house for Spanish-language Christian books for children in middle-childhood. Apparently such things have been lacking until now. In a 2025 Religion & Liberty interview, freely available online, the owners strongly reference Tolkien and Lewis, they appear to be very open to fantasy, and they also hope to publish past out-of-print classics.