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Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #337<\/p>\n

* The new Indiana University Press book Beasts of the Sky: Strange Sightings in the Stratosphere<\/a><\/em> (2025) has a Tolkien chapter, “Fell Beasts and fell beasts: The Making of a Monster in J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings<\/em>“. These “fell beasts” being the winged mounts of the Nazgul. I can get a snippet of the book’s Introduction, which suggests the Nazgul chapter discusses (among other things) the ways their form is made uncertain or alluded to, until the final unveiling.<\/p>\n

* The Spanish Tolkien Society blogs in Spanish on the new carved sculpture of Tolkien<\/a> now sited at Roos on the Yorkshire coast, and shows two fine photos I’d not seen before. Large versions of the photos: 1<\/a> and 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* I had overlooked that the latest issue of SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature<\/a><\/em> has a Tolkien article, “Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully”. I’d previously only noted the issue’s review of the Spanish translation of Tolkien\u2019s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* In the quarterly Louisiana journal Joie de Vivre<\/em>, and online since July 2025, an essay on “J.R.R. Tolkien as Model Christian Artist”<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* The second Tolkien Conference Switzerland<\/a> is set for March 2026… <\/p>\n

The 2026 topic is: ‘Leadership in Tolkien’s Middle-earth’. We have already confirmed several international high-profile speakers. Organized by the University of Zurich, the University of Lausanne and Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and once again to be held at the University of Zurich as a hybrid conference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* A talk on “Tolkien and Technology”<\/a> at Hope College in Minnesota, set for March 2026. No speaker named as yet, but it’s part of the advanced events programme of the Saint Benedict Institute<\/a> of Catholic scholars at the College.<\/p>\n

* In Germany, there’s to be a new edition of the German-language book Das Grobe Elbisch-buch<\/a><\/em>. This being… “the standard German work on the Elvish languages, now revised and supplemented by the latest discoveries in Tolkien research”. Due for release on 31st October 2025.<\/p>\n

* And finally, newly posted on eBay is a postcard of “The Dingle, Sarehole”. A local memoir from 2023 recalls… “the Dingle on Wake Green Road, one of my childhood haunts next to the River Cole near Sarehole Mill”. A chapter in the eco-history book The Greening of the Cities<\/em> (1987) reveals it became part of what is now known as Moseley Bog.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien Gleanings #337 * The new Indiana University Press book Beasts of the Sky: Strange Sightings in the Stratosphere (2025) has a Tolkien chapter, “Fell Beasts and fell beasts: The Making of a Monster in J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings“. These “fell beasts” being the winged mounts of the Nazgul. I can get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18296,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18293\/revisions\/18296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}