{"id":16507,"date":"2024-11-29T17:48:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T17:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16507"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:42:14","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-251","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/11\/29\/tolkien-gleanings-251\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #251"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #251<\/p>\n

* The latest issue of the rolling Journal of Tolkien Research<\/a><\/em> is beginning to fill up, and now comes the first peer-reviewed article, “The Land of Fairies of J.R.R. Tolkien”. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* The major new book The Island: W.H. Auden and the Last of Englishness<\/em> focuses on the poet’s biography prior to his departure for America. With special and newly-illuminating focus on his roots in south Birmingham and his time as a teacher at nearby Malvern, as the young Auden yearned for a “lyrical nationalism” and for recognition as a national poet. Given his similar roots, interests and trajectory — and also his later direct connection with Tolkien at a critical time in the birth of LoTR<\/em> — this acclaimed new book may interest Gleanings<\/em> readers.<\/p>\n

* The blog jwwrightauthor<\/em> has some new “Thoughts on Moorcock\u2019s Criticism of Tolkien and Other Fantasists”<\/a>. In another blog, SteadyHQ<\/em>, we’re offered another reason why Moorcock got it so wrong. Like many other pungent leftist ‘critics’ of LoTR<\/em> in the first 40 or so years after publication, it now appears that “Moorcock never really read LoTR”<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien Notes<\/em> 21<\/a> (end of October 2024) from the Tolkien scholars Hammond & Scull.<\/p>\n

* The World Fantasy Convention 2025<\/a>, to be held in Brighton on the south coast of the UK, has announced its two themes. ‘Lyrical Fantasy’ and ’50 Years of British Fantasy and Horror’. The latter presumably being 1975-2025.<\/p>\n

* Shortly to be released to online streaming on Arte.tv, the feature-length TV documentary Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings<\/em><\/a> (2024)… “This documentary explores the real places in England and elsewhere that provided inspiration for Tolkien”.<\/p>\n

* For the real thing including muddy boots, Imagining Middle-earth: A Journey Through Tolkien\u2019s England<\/a> with Michael Drout, during October 2025. Start at Robin Hood’s Bay in Yorkshire, and end in Oxford.<\/p>\n

* The Walking Tree Publishers<\/a> website has ejected its recent cyber-gremlins. The ‘Latest News’ page now has new links to three free PDF reviews of Germanic Heroes, Courage, and one for Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium<\/em> and Binding them all: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien and His Works<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien’s old university college is celebrating 30 years of Exeter\u2019s musical organ, with ‘An evening of organ music inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’<\/a>. Set for 27th February 2025.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien & Lewis’s “Eagle and Child pub in Oxford set to host public consultation”<\/a>, reports This Is Oxfordshire<\/em>. The consultation event has been and gone (21st November), but the article has interior and side-alley pictures, plus developer pictures of what the famous pub might look like after the roof-fixing and renovation.<\/p>\n

* And finally, an illustration of the perils of not being on Twitter. I’ve published an interview with him, and read his biography, but until today I had no idea about Elon Musk and Tolkien<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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