Tolkien Gleanings #3.

Newly noticed at the latest edition of Journal of Tolkien Research, the short conference paper “Tolkien’s Coleridgean Legacy” (i.e. Coleridge).

Also new there, a review of the book Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works (2022). Another review from 2021 is found here.

New website: Tolkien and Alliterative Verse – A resource for students, poets, researchers, and anyone interested in J.R.R. Tolkien’s poetry, from Anna Smol. Has a Descriptive Bibliography for Tolkien, a guide to finding a small handful of worthy writing to introduce Alliterative Metre, and (“coming soon”) a guide to Secondary Sources.

Old, but new to me: “The Horns of the North: Historical Sources of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Trilogy” (1976). A short conference paper, now online. Some interesting early suggestions for sources, in a major but little-known event in Turkish / central European history.

Updated archive: Tolkien Journal, The 1965 – 1972, said yesterday by the curator to be newly in searchable .PDF form at fanac.org.

Audio interview: Writing About Tolkien, with John Garth (2022). Reveals that Tolkien at Exeter College has gone to a second edition. Nicer format (the first was laser-printed and stapled), adds some of the materials and high-res pictures used for the Bodleian exhibition, and has a few updates, according to a podcast interview with the author. £14 from his website. Not on Amazon, and not likely to be.