{"id":18487,"date":"2025-10-30T21:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18487"},"modified":"2025-10-30T21:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:40:41","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-353","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/10\/30\/tolkien-gleanings-353\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #353"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #353<\/p>\n

* In the Market<\/em> podcast interviews the author<\/a> of The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933\u20131945<\/em>. 45 minutes, .MP3 download under the “… More” button. The book’s forthcoming 18th November release-date is holding, after having slipped so many times before.<\/p>\n

* Wayne G. Hammond has a new blog post on Wonder and Imagination<\/a>, in which he reviews recent books which collect works by Clyde S. Kilby.<\/p>\n

* A new Masters degree dissertation, From Deep Heaven with Love: C.S. Lewis\u2019s Early Preoccupation with Love in the Ransom Trilogy<\/a> (2025). Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* A new issue of the Italian Tolkien journal Endore<\/em> No. 27<\/a>, undated but internal evidence suggests early 2025. Freely available online, in Italian. Includes, among many other items, a review of Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* The Digital Tolkien Project has launched the HoMe Base<\/a> website, which is set to become the… “hub of the Digital Tolkien Project\u2019s work on The History of Middle-earth<\/em> [HoMe] series”.<\/p>\n

* Dr Lynn Forest-Hill blogs that she is set to write a substantial scholarly article about… “Tolkien\u2019s poem The Sea Bell and its relationship to The Silmarillion”<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* New to me, Bibliography \u2013 The Andrew Lang Site<\/a>. An extensive scholarly bibliography, freely available online. Notes plenty of items related to Lang and Tolkien, including…<\/p>\n

Green, Roger Lancelyn. \u201cAndrew Lang and the Fairy Tale.\u201d The Review of English Studies 20.79 (Jul. 1944): [pages] 227\u201331. (Roger Lancelyn Green\u2019s 1944 B.Litt thesis on Andrew Lang (revised extensively into the 1946 biography above) was written under D. Nicoll Smith and J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s supervision. Tolkien did not pass the thesis initially in 1943 but sent it back to Green for revisions because he \u2018wanted to know more about the Fairies!\u2019 [Scull & Hammond II.352])<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* And finally, Lorenzo Daniele’s Lord of the Rings<\/em> illustrations<\/a>, a large set of stained-glass window style depictions of the entire narrative. Freely available online. Including a scene only briefly mentioned in the book, of Gimli and Legolas visiting the Glittering Caves together…<\/p>\n

“Then Legolas repaid his promise to Gimli and went with him to the Glittering Caves; and when they returned he was silent, and would say only that Gimli alone could find fit words to speak of them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Tolkien Gleanings #353 * In the Market podcast interviews the author of The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933\u20131945. 45 minutes, .MP3 download under the “… More” button. The book’s forthcoming 18th November release-date is holding, after having slipped so many times before. * Wayne G. Hammond has […]<\/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-18487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487","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=18487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18490,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions\/18490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}