Tolkien Gleanings #209.

* An new oliphaunt-sized set of Tolkien Addenda & Corrigenda Updates from Hammond & Scull. Freely available online.

* In The Oxford Mail newspaper, the report “J.R.R. Tolkien memorial unveiled in Oxford by Neil Gaiman”. Freely available online.

* New on YouTube, the talk “A Grandson’s Reflections on J.R.R. Tolkien” (Michael G. Tolkien).

* Also new on YouTube, one of the Oxford 50 series of talks, “Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar”.

* The annual Muriel Fuller Endowment for the Imagination and the Arts public lecture, now on YouTube. This year, “George MacDonald and the Prophetic Imagination”. Part of the Celebrating George MacDonald 2024 bicentenary events.

* A new repository record-page for “Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings”, a 2024 article from the scholarly journal The Explicator. Partly funded by the EU, and thus it looks like a one-year embargo (with a public download in September 2025).

* Public donations are invited to support the annual J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature at Pembroke College, Oxford.

* New to me, The Inquisitive Biologist blog reviewed The Science of Middle-Earth: A New Understanding of Tolkien and His World (2021).

* The forthcoming U.S. conference Mythmoot XI: ‘The Resilience of Imagination’ now has a PDF of the presentation abstracts. Many Tolkien papers, and among these I especially noted “The Resilience of Imagination in Modern Academia: Tolkien as Master of the “Non-traditional Research Output”.

* And finally, a talk + gig which happened a few days ago, titled “Forged In Mount Doom: J.R.R. Tolkien And The Birth Of Heavy Metal”. The talk was by “Dr. April Henry, professor of German Studies at Duke University”. Supported by a ‘black metal’ (heavy metal) band, and a maker of doomy ‘dungeon synth’ electronica.