Tolkien Gleanings #63.

* Now online, the YouTube recording from the recent UK event “Celebrating 70 years since J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sir Gawain lecture in Glasgow (1953-2023)”. The first of the three talks starts at 20:00 minutes in.

* I see that Cambridge University Press published two new books, just before Christmas 2022. One offers chapters which survey various modern epics, Epic Ambitions in Modern Times and this has a chapter on Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion. The other is Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature, though snippets suggest only one chapter (by Geeraert) might perhaps have something to say about Tolkien. Both books are paywalled, though both have Kindle ebooks that are far cheaper than otherwise.

* Now available, the first issue of the new open-access journal The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale. Two articles, plus many book reviews.

* A new Masters dissertation in Philosophy, Lord of the Meaning: An Examination of Interpretive Theories (2023), which revolves around the idea of allegory-hunting in The Lord of the Rings. Freely online at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

* And finally, new to me (thanks to a new listing on da.font) are the Middle-earth Fonts by Nancy Lorenz. These have freely-given permission for commercial use.

“Marigold Wild” has some especially nice capital letters, not well previewed on the mixed demo above.