Tolkien Gleanings #407

* The Oxford C.S.Lewis Society has posted its list of April-June 2026 events. Talks include…

    — J.R.R. Tolkien and the Patriotism of G.K. Chesterton: Little England, The Shire, and Notting Hill.
    — Biography of C.S. Lewis’s Library: The Kilns’ Years.

* Tolkien: Medieval and Modern muses on “Tolkien’s Metaphysics”.

* The Tolkien Pop! podcast has a new long interview with Dr. Luke Shelton, editor of Mallorn and author of a recent thesis on the reception of The Lord of the Rings among young readers.

* Tolkien Oddments tracks down the “Books Dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien During His Lifetime”. (Substack, but freely available).

* Miriam Ellis reviews Malcolm Guite’s new book Galahad and the Grail (2026).

* The Church Times reviews Fairies: A history (2026).

* The Gondolin Student Project has built Tolkien’s Gondolin in 3D and rendered a view of it using the open-source Blender software.

* And finally, via a crisp eBay scan, a restored and colorised ‘magic-lantern’ slide of Warwick Castle from the river.

“June-July 1914: Tolkien spends the early part of his vacation visiting Edith in Warwick. Probably on this visit he draws a view of Warwick Castle seen from under a bridge, apparently made from a punt or boat on the river. He will later date it ‘1913-14?'” — Hammond & Scull, Chronology.

O fading town upon a little hill,
Old memory is waning in thine ancient gates,
The robe gone grey, thine old heart almost still;
The castle only, frowning, ever waits

— Tolkien, from the first version of “Kortirion among the Trees” (1915).