More new or newly-online Tolkien scholarship of interest, freely available:

* Kristine Larsen has “Numenor and the “Devouring Wave”” in the Journal of Tolkien Research. She also has “”I am Primarily a Scientific Philologist”: Tolkien and the Science/Technology Divide” (2019, expanded), and “”While the World Lasted”: End Times
in Tolkien’s Works” (2015), both newly showing up on Google Scholar. The latter two are on Academia.edu, which if you’re not member only allows linked PDF downloads from a Scholar search — thus you’ll have to search for the titles there.

* Review of Tolkien and the Classical World. The title and cover page of the review has the book as 2021, but the review’s header has it as 2017. The only paper I’d want has an abstract which puts it at December 2020, “”Eastwards and Southwards”: Philological and Historical Perspectives on Tolkien and Classicism”… “it is argued that Tolkien is fascinated with the spread of culture from an area which seems to map onto the Caucasus-Caspian region. In this he appears to follow the German Indo-Europeanists Otto Schrader and Victor Hehn, rather than the ‘Nordicist’ school represented by Karl Penka and Hermann Hirt.” There is also a usefully different abstract here. The book is not yet on Amazon UK as Tolkien and the Classical World, and is not to be confused there with the earlier Tolkien and the Classics (2019) which is on Amazon and has a different editorship. Tolkien Gateway has Tolkien and the Classical World as being released January 2021, which I’ll take as valid over the other dates. eBay seems to be your best current bet for getting a copy.

* Newly open access at Mallorn (2018, released via the two-year paywall) “The Lovecraft Circle and the Inklings: The “Mythopoeic Gift” of H.P. Lovecraft”, and “Checking the Facts” (appears to closely pick up and scrutinise various scholarly errors of recent years).

* “Deep Roots are Not Reached by the Frost”: Tolkien and the Welsh Language.

* “A Ray of Light: The Theological Vision of Letter 89”. (On Academia.edu, which if you’re not member only allows linked PDF downloads from a Scholar search — thus you’ll have to search for the title there).

* “The Theopolitical Vision of G.K. Chesterton and J.R.R. Tolkien and its Contemporary Relevance” (Appears to be in Spanish, but is in fact in English). Related are the various essays on Tolkien and Distributism of recent years, which are now getting to be enough to fill a book.

* J.R.R. Tolkien’s sub-creation theory: literary creativity as participation in the divine creation.

* Comments from Beyond Bree, on the recent book Something has Gone Crack.

Past surveys: Unleash the mega-Tolk! and More recent Tolkien work.