Tolkien Gleanings #227

* A new Masters dissertation, “Reclaiming Stoicism: Aragorn as the Epitome of Healthy Masculinity in the Modern Era” (2024). Freely available online.

* On YouTube, the Chasing Leviathan podcast interviews Dr. Graham McAleer on ‘Tolkien, Philosopher of War’. His book of the same name is set for publication at the start of November 2024. For background, last week The Imaginative Conservative had the article “J.R.R. Tolkien’s Vision of Just War”.

* In Spanish, “Recreacion De Elessar En Art Noveau” (2023/24). An account of a student design project to… “recreate [Aragorn’s green] jewel by creating a design for its illustration, via an analysis and study of the literary descriptions given by Tolkien of the jewel and its materials, as well as an analysis of the symbology of all the elements that represent it.” Currently in a university online repository, but under an unspecified embargo.

* A complete table-of-contents for the long-delayed Tolkien Studies Volume 20… “published in August 2024, but actually being the 2023 issue”. Has the article “The Year’s Work in Tolkien Studies 2020”, and a bibliography for 2021.

* On YouTube, the playlist Wonders of the Wade, with the latest addition to the series being “Wonders of the Wade #15: J.R.R. Tolkien’s desk and pen”.

* New in the journal Studies in Philology, “Pearl and the Fairies of Romance: Hermeneutics and Intertextuality in a Fourteenth-Century Religious Dream Vision” ($ paywall). The author… “argues that the Pearl-poet is consciously engaging with readily identifiable fairy themes and motifs” of the period.

* And finally, two online previews of new watercolours to be included in the 2025 Beyond Bree Tolkien Calendar.