{"id":18560,"date":"2025-11-16T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18560"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:12:32","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/11\/16\/tolkien-gleanings-359\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #359"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #359<\/p>\n

* Just published, the 2025 edition of the Italian Tolkien journal I Quaderni di Arda<\/a><\/em>. It appears to be a comparative special-issue, with articles on Tolkien in relation to Moorcock, le Guin, Gaiman, China Mieville, A.S. Byatt (integrated a few references to Tolkien in her work, apparently), and even Stephen King. Plus reviews of Pity, Power, and Tolkien\u2019s Ring<\/em>; Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation<\/em>; and the Collected Poems<\/em>. All in Italian, and freely available online.<\/p>\n

* A long new interview by Graham Scheper with Michael Drout on “The Tower is Beowulf: Beowulf<\/em> and the Lord of the Rings”<\/em><\/a>. Freely available online. Drout’s book The Tower and the Ruin<\/em> is out in early December 2025.<\/p>\n

* The Green Notebook<\/em> podcast interviews Joseph Loconte on “Fascism, Communism, and the War for Middle-earth”<\/a>. The .MP3 download is under the “… More” button. Loconte’s book The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933\u20131945<\/em> is due in a few days.<\/p>\n

* The Critic<\/em> magazine reviews the new book Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain<\/em><\/a> (2025). Freely available online. Apparently the book is a thorough but also consequently revisionist history, in which Tolkien’s discipline of philology is relatively favourably treated…<\/p>\n

“Even the Oxford philologists are seen as reasonable men, trying to preserve a bedrock of seriousness in a newfangled discipline that at all times had threatened to get out of hand.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* New on Archive.org, a 1932-1963 run of the Leavisite journal Scrutiny<\/em><\/a>. Has some pungent criticism of the Tolkien and Gordon edition of the Green Knight<\/em>, among much else.<\/p>\n

* I failed to spot a relevant academic book, last year. Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism<\/a><\/em> (2024), from Manchester University Press. The author surveys works from 1939 to the present day.<\/p>\n

* And finally, new on YouTube is a three-minute video peep at The Brandywine Festival<\/a>, a rustic Hobbit festival held in Kentucky, USA. Well made and with steady-cam, so no worries about sea-sickness from wobbly camera shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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