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Tolkien Gleanings<\/a><\/em> #256<\/p>\n

* From the Bodleian and free on YouTube, “Christopher Tolkien at 100: A celebration”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* A new issue of Amon Hen<\/em> from the Tolkien Society<\/a> ($ paywall). The new December 2024 issue has, among others…<\/p>\n

    – An examination of… “why Galadriel arrayed Aragorn as an Elf-lord of the West and seemingly favoured his match with Arwen”.
\n    – A short review of the new History of Middle-earth<\/em> four-box box-set, focusing on the physical quality… “the bindings are glued instead of stitched”.
\n    – Reviews of the books Tolkien’s Faith<\/em> (2023), Leadership in Middle-earth<\/em> (2021), and a brief personal review-note on the new Collected Poems<\/em>.
\n    – Two pages on Goldberry as a supporting character.<\/p>\n

Also an intriguing reprint of some artwork I’d not seen before. Presented small and tagged only as “Ent and Entwife by Arthur Rackham”. Reverse image-search shows it to be from Hawthorne’s Wonderbook<\/em> (1922 edition), retelling selected Ancient Greek myths for children. The book is only to be found on Archive.org as A wonder book<\/a><\/em>, where the artwork is found inserted just before page 167<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The latest rolling edition of Journal of Tolkien Research<\/em> is filling up, with new additions including a review of Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth<\/em> (2024)<\/a>. The review is freely available online.<\/p>\n

* Slipping out of U.S. copyright in the New Year, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Modern Version of the XIV Century Alliterative Poem in the Original Metre<\/a><\/em> (1929). The book was published as an attractive popular edition by Dent in early spring 1929 — thus it seems very likely that Tolkien would have at least looked through it, perhaps in the summer of 1929. Well-reviewed, and then reprinted in 1931. Not on Archive.org, but Hathi Trust has a 1929 scan due for release on the due date. Not in Tolkien’s Library<\/em> (2nd Edition).<\/p>\n

* Notice of a private Tolkien Lecture for the Old Edwardians KES Boys<\/a>. March 2025, at the new Ruddock Performing Arts Centre, part of Tolkien’s old school (now relocated into south Birmingham). No topic given.<\/p>\n

* Set for 9th August 2025 at the Museum in Tewkesbury in the West Midlands, a talk on “Tolkien and the Cotswolds – The shaping of Middle-earth”. No speaker named.<\/p>\n

* And finally, at the Grolier in New York City, “Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works”<\/a>. The exhibition runs until 15th February 2025, and there is also an online version. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #256 * From the Bodleian and free on YouTube, “Christopher Tolkien at 100: A celebration”. * A new issue of Amon Hen from the Tolkien Society ($ paywall). The new December 2024 issue has, among others…     – An examination of… “why Galadriel arrayed Aragorn as an Elf-lord of the West and seemingly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18038,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16576\/revisions\/18038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}