A quick glance over the forthcoming Tolkien items, on the spring/summer 2020 book lists and as known to Amazon UK:

* A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien, in the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series. It’s not clear what this is, but I suspect it may be the cheaper paperback edition of Blackwell’s earlier A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien (2014), which had the same page length.

* Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-Earth, by Sam McBride, from Kent State University Press. Looks promising, though the blurb suggests that close-readers of The Silmarillion will enjoy it the most. Tolkien is very subtle in dropping hints that imply the existence of ‘structures of belief’ in the Shire, and I wonder if the book will pick up on such hints. (I don’t mean physical structures such as churches, as the term indicates ‘sets of structured ideas’).

* John Garth’s Tolkien’s Worlds: The Places That Inspired the Writer’s Imagination appears to have been delayed again, and Amazon is now saying June 2020. I’d suspect that the virus may delay it even further.

Also of interest, I’ve found a French journal on Fantasy Art and Studies. In French, but with at least one English article in each issue. They have a current Call for texts and illustrations for a themed issue on Animaux fabuleux / Amazing Beasts.