{"id":18546,"date":"2025-11-12T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18546"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:00:12","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-357","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/11\/12\/tolkien-gleanings-357\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #357"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #357<\/p>\n

* Joseph Loconte draws “Lessons About ‘the Will to Power’ from Middle-earth”<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* For Remembrance Day, John Garth offered an article on Tolkien’s friend “Robert Quilter Gilson on the eve of war, 1914”<\/a> ($ paywall).<\/p>\n

* The 2026 C.S. Lewis conference will visit Amiens, France, to discuss “War, Fellowship, and Survival in the Lives and Works of C.S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits”<\/a>. The dates are 11th-13th June 2026.<\/p>\n

* Marquette has a page for public showings of the Tolkien manuscripts, 2026<\/a>. I can’t give you dates, since Marquette University completely blocks anyone using a VPN. Which presumably includes their own students, using laptops + VPNs in their campus cafes? Durh. But I assume from the search-result snippet that the dates are indeed there.<\/p>\n

* New in English, in the latest issue of Italian journal Ricognizioni<\/em>, “Quenya is Practically a Main Character: Elvish-English Multilingualism in Tolkien-inspired Fan-Fictions”<\/a>. Freely available online. The same issue also has an article on “Plant Names in Constructed Worlds”<\/a>, which may interest some.<\/p>\n

* The Tolkienist<\/em> surveys some of the many recent Kickstarter offers. Judging by this, it appears to be becoming increasingly easy to obtain a licence to sell expensive branded ‘Tolkien tat’<\/a> on crowdfunding sites.<\/p>\n

* Some of the Lord of the Rings<\/em> movie trilogy actors are going on an 11-city U.S. stage tour<\/a>, January to September 2026, billed as ‘An Evening With the Hobbits: In Celebration of 25 Years’. Will there be hobbit songs sung, one wonders?<\/p>\n

* New on Archive.org, an audiophile’s painstaking The Hobbit<\/em> (1977) VHS Hi-Fi Audio Capture<\/a>. This is the Rankin Bass cartoon release.<\/p>\n

* And finally, as the usual November rains pour down here in Britain, a timely and beautifully illustrated post. Miriam Ellis on “The Glory of Goldberry’s Washing Day”<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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