{"id":18281,"date":"2025-09-25T19:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18281"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:13:37","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-335","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/09\/25\/tolkien-gleanings-335\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #335"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #335<\/p>\n

* More marvelous paintings of ents and hobbits<\/a> by Miriam Ellis, and blog musings on the same.<\/p>\n

* In Polish but easily auto-translated, Tolkniety<\/em> has two new blog posts on Tolkien as a man of the north<\/a>… but looking towards Rome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The latest issue of the Italian journal History of Education & Children\u2019s Literature<\/a><\/em> has an Italian-language article examining the portrayal of Gollum in The Hobbit: A Graphic Novel<\/em>. The whole issue is under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike, and freely available online. <\/p>\n

* Just published, the academic book The Germanic Heroic Tradition in Video Games<\/a><\/em> (2025). It’s unusual in that it’s a single-author book by a tenured philologist, rather than a multi-author book from the Game Studies crowd.<\/p>\n

   Introduction: The Contemporary Middle Ages.
\n   The Medieval Legacy: From the Renaissance to Globalization.
\n   Half a Century of Evolution: The Shaping of Germanic Heroic Narratives in Mass Popular Culture.
\n   Video Games as Playable Explorations of the Past.
\n   Playing the Hero: The Germanic Archetype in the Digital World.
\n   Into the Virtual Lair: Defeating Evil and Claiming the Prize.
\n   Final Remarks: Germanic Heroism in the Digital Age.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien scholar Dr. Lynn Forest-Hill announces<\/a>… “my newly revised translation of the 14th century The Romance of Sir Bevis of Hampton<\/em> has just been published by Witan Publishing, and is at last generally available in paperback from Amazon.”<\/p>\n

* Fellowship & Fairydust<\/em> has the moving new article “More Than a Thesis: Researching the Romance of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Bud Plant is ‘calling it a day’<\/a> and retiring. The Comics Journal<\/em> has a profile and a long interview with the well-known book dealer. For four decades he has been curating a catalogue of quality one-volume comic collections and fantasy artbooks. The CJ<\/em> article is freely available online, as are the catalogues.<\/p>\n

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* The new journal The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale<\/a><\/em> has produced a third issue. No Tolkien, but it may now be of interest to readers as a potential publication venue. The “Nineteenth Century” is here considered to be the ‘long’ one, from 1789-1919.<\/p>\n

* Stand Up for Southport<\/em> previews the touring ‘Magic of Middle-earth’ exhibition<\/a>, about to open in the coastal town of Southport (near Liverpool).<\/p>\n

* An unusual new item from Denmark, Arda’s Herbarium: A Musical Guide to the Mystical Garden of Middle-earth and Stranger Places<\/a><\/em>, being a collection of short synth-based musical pieces evoking the plants of Middle-earth.<\/p>\n

“This fearless project was started in Spring 2022 to meticulously cover all known plants in Tolkien’s lore with a musical interpretation of each species in alphabetical order. The result is a growing versatile collection of archaic and atmospheric music covering somber synth tones and idyllic tunes as well as darker misty electronics, black metal and beyond.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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* And finally, Reddit asks (and of course, answers) “Is this The Full List of Gandalf\u2019s Explicit Magic?”<\/a> in The Hobbit<\/em> and LoTR<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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