{"id":17898,"date":"2025-08-16T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17898"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:49:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:49:54","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/08\/16\/tolkien-gleanings-323\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #323"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/category\/tolkien-gleanings\/\">Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #323<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.zyrosite.com\/m7V2J9vD8ZToKywb\/simonin-olivier---tolkien-dWxBMKg475h4JNBp.pdf\">&#8220;Tolkien, editor, reader and critic of <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&#8221;<\/em><\/a> (2025). An advanced student work, it seems, but one checked over by Leo Carruthers of the Sorbonne. Freely available online.<\/p>\n<p>* The Tolkien Society blog has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolkiensociety.org\/2025\/08\/new-edition-of-the-hobbit-graphic-novel-coming-this-september\/\">&#8220;New edition of <em>The Hobbit graphic novel<\/em> coming this September&#8221;<\/a>, with inner-page previews and the additional detail that the maker&#8230; &#8220;is speaking at the Society\u2019s Oxonmoot event in September 2025. His talk will be available to both those in Oxford and those joining the event online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Now on YouTube, a recording of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3xT1e6b00Sc\">the recent Signum University thesis defence<\/a> for the PhD on \u201cNeutral and Evil Technology in Lewis and Tolkien&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Also new on YouTube, a video tour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eGIdXu9ImPs\">Inside the C.S. Lewis and Tolkien Museum at Wheaton College<\/a> in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>* From the journal <em>Religion &amp; Literature<\/em> and now in open-access at a repository, <a href=\"https:\/\/research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk\/handle\/10023\/32619\">&#8220;The eschatological imagination in literature&#8221;<\/a> (2025).<\/p>\n<p>* At <em>RealClear Books &amp; Culture<\/em>, the new article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearbooks.com\/articles\/2025\/08\/14\/cs_lewis_in_the_age_of_bleakness_1128402.html\">&#8220;C.S. Lewis in the Age of Bleakness: Awe, Wonder and the Power of Enchantment&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* <em>Massively Overpowered<\/em> considers <a href=\"https:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2020\/04\/16\/jukebox-heroes-lord-of-the-rings-onlines-unreleased-soundtrack\/\"><em>Lord of the Rings Online\u2019<\/em>s unreleased soundtrack<\/a>, and embeds the YouTube fan-videos that showcase some of it. Just part, apparently, of&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;a huge repository of \u201cunreleased\u201d music for the game that either hasn\u2019t gotten a formal release anywhere or hasn\u2019t been used in the game yet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* And finally, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/idraluna-archives.bearblog.dev\/12-mile-middle-earth-hexmap\/\">12-mile Middle Earth GIS Hexmap<\/a>, meaning that each hex is 12 miles. Such things are used by tabletop gamers, if they have a big enough table or three. A high-res version is also freely available.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I tried to only depict features appearing in Tolkien&#8217;s writings, for which I relied primarily on citations on Tolkeingateway.net. I have not (intentionally) included anything from the films, TV show, [multiplayer online videogames], or various [tabletop] RPGs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien Gleanings #323 * &#8220;Tolkien, editor, reader and critic of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&#8221; (2025). An advanced student work, it seems, but one checked over by Leo Carruthers of the Sorbonne. 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