{"id":17624,"date":"2025-06-06T22:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T21:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17624"},"modified":"2025-06-06T22:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T21:33:17","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/06\/06\/tolkien-gleanings-308\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #308"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #308<\/p>\n

* Now available for download by members, the latest Amon Hen<\/em> #313<\/a> (June 2025) from The Tolkien Society. Among other items, a long review of the new book The High Hallow<\/em>, a long report from Westmoot, and a lengthy report on the ‘Three Farthing Stone’ Smial meet at the Burlington hotel in Birmingham. In which Shrewsbury is suggested as their next meet-up venue, later in 2025. One of the Three Farthing members is reportedly…<\/p>\n

“working on a book derived from his Oxonmoot talks, a reference book of Tolkien audio material”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* A new rolling issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research<\/a><\/em> is now underway, opening with a review of the book The Map of Wilderland: Ecocritical Reflections on Tolkien\u2019s Myth of Wilderness<\/em> (2022). Freely available online. <\/p>\n

* In the Christian journal the Kenarchy Journal<\/em> 7.1 (2025), freely available online, the lead article is “The Great Music: Perfecting Love in Order and in Chaos”<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“The paper draws on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien to illuminate the way that this hope can be realised, pointing to a \u2018higher harmony\u2019 that is capable of including and transcending even the discord of the world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Tomorrow (Saturday 7th June) in Dallas and on Zoom, a talk for the Lewis-Tolkien Society ‘Dr. James Patrick on Idealism and Orthodoxy at Oxford’<\/a>, which examines…<\/p>\n

“how the Oxford dons grappled with the challenge of defending Christian orthodoxy in the aftermath of Kant\u2019s intellectual scepticism, Hegel\u2019s metaphysics of World Spirit, and the reaction of British realism and Ayer\u2019s positivism.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This relates to (and perhaps updates?) his book Magdalen Metaphysicals: Idealism and Orthodoxy at Oxford, 1901-1945<\/em> (1985). The book is well out-of-print, but I see there’s now an Archive.org scan to digitally ‘borrow’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Tantor (formerly Trantor, before trademark trolls) is set to release two recent scholarly books as audiobooks. The Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien: Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation<\/em> should appear in mid July, and Tolkien, Philosopher of War<\/em> in mid August 2025.<\/p>\n

* In Indiana, Ball State University Libraries has a Tolkien Exhibit<\/a>, on show until the end of July 2025. This is a relatively small display in their Archives and Special Collections division…<\/p>\n

“the exhibit features selections from the Deborah and Fritz Dolak J.R.R. Tolkien Collection, which was generously donated to Ball State in 2013 [and is being shown alongside new] student and staff interpretations of Tolkien\u2019s world. Among the featured items are fantasy maps developed by Brendo Carvalho, a visiting cartography student from Brazil, and Rachel Cohn, assistant professor and foundations coordinator in the School of Art. Their work reflects the continuing inspiration Tolkien\u2019s imagination provides to emerging artists and scholars.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* On YouTube, First Timers<\/em> considers Tolkien’s mastery of the art of foreshadowing and callback<\/a> in LoTR<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* And finally… a Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust Open Day at Moseley Bog<\/a> in south Birmingham, 5th July 2025. Including two ‘Tolkien Tours’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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