{"id":17758,"date":"2025-08-03T23:25:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17758"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:05:04","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-315","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/08\/03\/tolkien-gleanings-315\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #315"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #315<\/p>\n

Note: Due to growing censorship, I’m now 99% surfing with a VPN. I use Mullvad as the VPN and bounce out to the east coast of the USA. So when I say “freely available online” now, I mean for someone in the USA rather than here in the UK. Of various Tolkien sites, I find that only Walking Tree and the ‘Interactive Middle-earth Map’ sites are unreachable when using a VPN, with the map site giving a very obnoxious message to VPN users.<\/em><\/p>\n

* A new Amon Hen<\/em> No. 314<\/a> (August 2025) is available, for Tolkien Society members. The Editorial reveals they’ve finally found a new layout and design worker. Some Silmarillion<\/em> focused lead articles, and among the other items are…<\/p>\n

   – Christopher Tolkien’s Lectures at Oxford: Bibliography.
\n   – An all-too-short article on William, Tom and Bert (the trolls from The Hobbit<\/em>), leading into a look at what can be known about trolls in general.
\n   – A DIY article on how to make a hobbit-hole door.<\/p>\n

* A new issue of Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research<\/em> (July 2025). Freely available online. Has a Finnish article which translates as “Spirituality in the fantasy fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien”<\/a>, plus a clutch of book reviews…<\/p>\n

   – Review of The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/em><\/a>.
\n   – Review of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics<\/em><\/a>.
\n   – Review of Celebrating Tolkien\u2019s Legacy<\/em><\/a>.
\n   – Review of Mapping Middle-earth<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The new edition of the Spanish journal Selim: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature<\/em> has a review of the Spanish translation of Tolkien’s Green Knight<\/em><\/a>. Currently this open-access journal is down, unavailable either with or without a VPN. <\/p>\n

* Signum University is to hold a three-day Moot here in the UK, Land of Dragons: How Myth Shapes Our Reality<\/a>. Set for 3rd-5th October 2025, in Cardiff, South Wales. At present there’s a call for papers and session ideas. It will be possible to attend virtually, online, as well as in person.<\/p>\n

* The regional U.S. news radio station TMJ4<\/em> has an article deriving from its ‘Milwaukee Tonight’ slot, “11,000 pages of Lord of the Rings<\/em> drafts are in Marquette University’s archives”<\/a>, profiling the archivist. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature<\/a> 2025 is now… uploaded to Spotify. Rather an unfortunate choice, since Spotify is reportedly set to start deleting UK user accounts en masse<\/em>. Doubly unfortunate since Zen Cho’s lecture was in part about censorship.<\/p>\n

* New in the Protestant Christian magazine American Reformer<\/em>, “Poetry and Monarchy in Tolkien”<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* New in The American Spectator<\/em> “The Newest Doctor of the Church\u2019s Influence on Catholic Literature”<\/a>, focusing on Cardinal Newman’s influence on Tolkien.<\/p>\n

* And finally, LOTRSilverCollections<\/a>, a new Reddit sub-forum for those who collect LoTR<\/em> merchandise and coins, if made with precious metals. Preciousss…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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