{"id":17524,"date":"2025-05-14T20:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17524"},"modified":"2025-05-14T20:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:13:11","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-303","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/05\/14\/tolkien-gleanings-303\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #303"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #303<\/p>\n

* A new and fully-primed Journal of Tolkien Research<\/em>, Vol. 21, Issue 2<\/a> (2025), being a special issue on ‘Tolkien and Psychology: Papers from the 2024 University of Vermont Tolkien Conference’. Freely available online. Includes, among others, Kristine Larsen on “The Mariner and his Astronomer Father: Victorian Masculinities in Numenor”. Also note the last-minute addition to the previous rolling edition, Vol 21, Issue 1<\/a>, Janet Brennan Croft’s “\u201cWhat Ship Will Bear Me Ever Back\u201d: Woundedness and the Western Sea”.<\/p>\n

* A Masters degree dissertation for the U.S. Catholic university Seton Hall, \u201cThe Atmosphere that Supports Life on Earth\u201d: An Ecocritical Approach to Tolkien\u2019s Arda<\/a> (2025). Freely available for download. On perusing the abstract one finds it focuses down on…<\/p>\n

“the interplay between mountains, trees, and humanity within Arda [which] has yet to be explored [in Tolkien studies, and thus the author] seeks to rectify this lack by coining a new term \u2014 the ecocritical trinity, based in medievalism …”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Also at Seton Hall, I noted the university’s annual Arcadia: A Student Journal for Faith and Culture<\/em>. There I discovered that their 2024 issue<\/a> was a special on ‘Exploring Religion Through Fantasy Literature’<\/a>. Freely available online and it has the following Tolkien essays…<\/p>\n

    – “Good and Evil in Fantasy: The Author and the Reader” (compares LoTR<\/em> with Night Operation<\/em> by Owen Barfield, and Gaiman’s American Gods<\/em>).
\n    – “The Love of God in This World and the Next” (on the manner of the deaths of two key characters in LoTR<\/em>).
\n    – “Afterlife: Life and Death in Narnia and Arda”.
\n    – “\u201cThe Dominion of Men\u201d: A Study of Masculinity in Tolkien\u2019s The Hobbit<\/em> and The Lord of the Rings”<\/em>.
\n    – “Anglo-Saxon and Christian Themes of Bravery in Beowulf<\/em> and Their Applications in The Hobbit”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* At the online Signum University for June 2025, a one-month summer school course on ‘Tolkien and the Old Testament’<\/a>. Booking now. And in July 2025<\/a>, ‘Men Marrying Up: Marriage and Romance in Tolkien’, plus another three courses in the Collected Poems<\/em> series. Related: Shalom Tidings<\/em> has ‘Tolkien Speaks: The Secrets to a Happy Marriage’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The new Spanish podcast Tolkien in Lettere<\/em> is persevering with reading Tolkien’s letters in order, and has now released a free audio reading of Tolkien’s ‘Lettera 25’ in Spanish translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* On YouTube, Malcolm Guite enjoys a dip into the new Collected Poems<\/em> boxed-set<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* And finally….“Giant sculpture of Gandalf riding an eagle to be removed from Wellington Airport”<\/a> in New Zealand. Might make a nice hood-ornament for President Trump’s new Air Force One?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #303 * A new and fully-primed Journal of Tolkien Research, Vol. 21, Issue 2 (2025), being a special issue on ‘Tolkien and Psychology: Papers from the 2024 University of Vermont Tolkien Conference’. Freely available online. Includes, among others, Kristine Larsen on “The Mariner and his Astronomer Father: Victorian Masculinities in Numenor”. Also note […]<\/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-17524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524","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=17524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}