{"id":18644,"date":"2025-12-04T18:41:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18644"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:51:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:51:35","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/12\/04\/tolkien-gleanings-364\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #364"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #364<\/p>\n

* New and available now for members of the Tolkien Society, Amon Hen<\/em> (326, December 2025)<\/a>. Among other items, there’s a lengthy essay surveying ropes and rope-making in the works of Tolkien. I’d imagine that Tolkien had learned a thing or two about rope and rope-knots during his time in the Boy Scouts (see Lembas Extra<\/em> 2015), the King Edwards Horse cadets, and the British Army.<\/p>\n

* New on YouTube, Malcolm Guite discusses “Wardrobes and Rings<\/em>, my new book about the Inklings”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* At the Brompton Oratory in London, “a book launch<\/a>, live podcast & drinks reception, exploring Tolkien’s theology and philosophy”. The book in question is Fr. Michael Halsall’s A Light from the Shadows: The Spiritual Heart of JRR Tolkien<\/em>, which seems otherwise unknown to Google Search or Amazon. Set for 30th January 2026, and booking now.<\/p>\n

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* The University of York PhD thesis The Making of Modern Fantasy in the Visual Arts of England, c. 1850-1920<\/a><\/em> (2021, online 2022). Now freely available online, after what looks like a three-year embargo. “Visual Arts” here means fine-art painting, not the nation’s blossoming popular print and illustration culture.<\/p>\n

* Due in early 2026, The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings: Sounds of Home in the Fantasy Franchise<\/a><\/em>. A \u00a343 academic book in Routledge’s ‘Ashgate Screen Music’ series. <\/p>\n

* Also due in early 2026, Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction: Morris, Tolkien, Le Guin<\/a><\/em>, a \u00a390 academic book in Bloomsbury Academic’s ‘Explorations in Science and Literature’ series.<\/p>\n

* Bradley N. Birzer has a new article on “My Life With Tolkien”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* New at the Oxford Tolkien Network YouTube channel, a recording of the talk “Middle-earth in Brazil and Beyond: Tolkien’s Reception in Portuguese”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* On Substack, Dimitra Fimi compares Lud-in-the-Mist<\/em> (1926) with The Hobbit<\/em> (1937)<\/a>. This prompted me to take a quick look for the best audiobook of Lud<\/em>, which appears be the one narrated by Eleanor Bron and with an introduction by Gaiman.<\/p>\n

* And finally, the Oxford Mail<\/em> local newspaper reports “J.R.R Tolkien auction cancelled”<\/a>, allegedly due to disquiet about the authenticity of many of the lots. This refers to the Bristol auction, not the Tolkien desk coming up at Sotheby’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #364 * New and available now for members of the Tolkien Society, Amon Hen (326, December 2025). Among other items, there’s a lengthy essay surveying ropes and rope-making in the works of Tolkien. I’d imagine that Tolkien had learned a thing or two about rope and rope-knots during his time in the Boy […]<\/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-18644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18644","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=18644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18648,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18644\/revisions\/18648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}