Tolkien Gleanings #370

Happy New Year!

* Alas, Not Me on “The Digital Tolkien Project – How it Helps My Work”.

* A repository collection of 101 very early Tolkien fanzines, all scanned and online. Freely available. Lighthouse 13 (August 1965)…

* Literary Hub has an official free excerpt-article from Michael Drout’s new book, “Michael D.C. Drout Remembers the Impact of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit on His Childhood”.

* In the latest Forum Auctions catalogue (November 2025), a proof for the cover of the 1961 British children’s paperback of The Hobbit…

* A curious self-published pamphlet in Italian, newly published on Amazon, Tolkien vs Lovecraft: Confronto sul concetto di Morte (‘Tolkien vs Lovecraft: A comparison of their concepts of death’) (2025).

* Clas Merdin looks back on the year in his “Matters Arthurian in 2025”. He notes that the 40th volume (XL) of the journal Arthurian Literature had an article on “fairies and cosmic providence in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”.

* And finally, Wormwoodiana’s Second-Hand Bookshops in Britain: 2025 Report. Includes the interesting detail that…

“… another development is the spread of a small selection of second-hand books in a variety of places. For example, almost every historic church visited on a book-hunting holiday this year had second-hand books for sale, usually several hundred each.”