{"id":18462,"date":"2025-10-24T21:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18462"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:11:29","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/10\/24\/tolkien-gleanings-350\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #350"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #350<\/p>\n

* Now open, the Tolkien Fanfiction Survey 2025<\/a>. No deadline, it seems. But the survey details were posted six days ago. A survey for readers as well as writers. It happens every five years, and this one seem especially relevant as now we have advanced creative-writing AIs in the mix of tools. <\/p>\n

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* The editor of the new book Tolkien\u2019s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth<\/em> is featured in a press article issued by his university<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* Vincent Ferre has a new conference paper in French on Fabula<\/em>, “Peuples fictionnels et dynamique de la creation chez J.R.R. Tolkien: peuples, langues et geographie imaginaires”<\/a> (‘The Dynamics of Creation in J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Fiction: Peoples, Languages, and Imaginary Geography’). Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* A 2025 paper, “Comparing Tolkien’s Thieves To Beowulf<\/em> and the Old English Context”<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* The journal Different Visions: New Perspectives on Mediaeval Art<\/a><\/em> seeks essays on ‘recalcitrant’ works, for a future issue. Potential contributors are encouraged to think about… <\/p>\n

“objects and images that they find confounding, have struggled to write about, have abandoned the study of, or have found resistant to art historical methodologies”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It strikes me that one might write about how Tolkien has influenced how students approach certain medieval imagery, and how this complicates teaching and student reading\/writing.<\/p>\n

* The poster for the Tolkien exhibition in Trieste, Italy, on now.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, the latest Brookston Beer Bulletin<\/em> on Tolkien and beer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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