{"id":18151,"date":"2025-09-04T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18151"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:11:01","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/09\/04\/tolkien-gleanings-330\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #330"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #330<\/p>\n

* The 3rd edition of A Bibliography of Tolkien Studies in French and English<\/a> (summer 2025) is now available. The venture is nicely ‘filling up the corners’, with the current edition offering… “4,245 references […] classified and presented in several usual [scholarly] quotation formats.” Freely available online, under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike.<\/p>\n

* The OxonMoot 2025 schedule<\/a> (warning: VPN users are automatically blocked, with not even a captcha). Among others, these caught my eye…<\/p>\n

   – “Ho! Ho! Ho! To the Bottle I Go: The Pub in Tolkien\u2019s Life and Works”.
\n   – “Tolkien the Caveman: Poetry as a Cudgel” (Tolkien’s poetic ridicule of his colleague Percy Simpson).
\n   – “Belliphonic Tolkien: Sounds of War in The Lord of the Rings”<\/em>.
\n   – “Tolkien and the Miniature” (his “sustained interest in the minuscule and in the interplay of different scales”).
\n   – “Tolkien’s Bicycle” (his bicycles and cycling life, amid the emerging and increasingly dangerous car-culture).<\/p>\n

* In the August 2025 issue of the journal Themelios<\/em>, “Angelic Fall Theodicy in Dialogue with Tolkien, Augustine, and Aquinas”<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* In Italy, Avvenire<\/em> reviews Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation<\/em><\/a> (2025). Review freely available online, in Italian.<\/p>\n

* New at the website of the venerable Catholic journal The Lamp<\/em>, “Soaring Music”<\/a>. A rather mis-titled article in which the author muses on the appeal of “the strangeness of Tolkien”, and compares The Lord of the Rings<\/em> with Nabokov’s Pale Fire<\/em>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* Due in September 2025 and pre-ordering now, a new issue of Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion<\/a><\/em>. Includes the article “The Other Country: Numinous Landscape in English Supernatural Fiction” and “On Time Slips: Jack Finney, Charles de Lint and an old house in Chester” (which at a guess may be a survey of English ‘time-slip’ literature).<\/p>\n

* Extended free access to a large medieval site is a rare thing in England today, other than castles. But there’s still the walkable circuit of ye olde city-walls at Chester, formerly a major port city. Clas Merdin<\/em> has posted a new up-to-date descriptive photo-tour of the city-walls walk, on his blog: Part One<\/a> and Part Two<\/a>. Might be a good place for a Tolkien event, such as a promenade performance, I’d suggest? <\/p>\n

* Lovely poster for the Hobbiton 2025 program in Italy<\/a>. That’s how you do event posters.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, Tolkien pictures were bought for six eggs<\/a> in wartime Hull…<\/p>\n

“The pictures, which are of two stylishly dressed women and dated 1918, were handed down generations of the farmer\u2019s family, along with the story of how he got them [from Tolkien].”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If genuine, then they show Tolkien experimenting with collage as a medium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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