{"id":18687,"date":"2025-12-22T19:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18687"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:14:47","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-368","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/12\/22\/tolkien-gleanings-368\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #368"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #368<\/p>\n

* The 3rd edition of Dragon de Brume’s A Bibliography of Tolkien studies in French and English<\/a><\/em> (Winter 2025) is now freely available online. This edition tops 4,500 references. It’s open access, under permissive licenses.<\/p>\n

* New in Spanish, Un Cuento de Arboles<\/a><\/em> (October 2025), on forests in Tolkien. At a guess, possibly a (partial?) translation of the same editor’s Representations of Nature in Middle-earth<\/em> (2015)?<\/p>\n

* From Italy, the society journal Minas Tirith: Rivista della Societa Tolkieniana Italiana<\/em><\/a>, Vol. 28. March 2025 edition, seemingly published September 2025 according to Amazon. Includes articles in Italian such as “On the origin of the name ‘hobbit'”, among others.<\/p>\n

* The February 2026 edition of National Review<\/em> magazine reviews The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933\u20131945<\/em><\/a> ($ paywall, but should become free in time).<\/p>\n

* Tolkien scholar Michael D.C. Drout on “Why Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings<\/em> Endures”<\/a> ($ paywall). He also offers some technical comments on the deep structures and surface patinas of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. The book…<\/p>\n

“seems battered by time and change […] Its chapters group in a complex hierarchy with three large groupings and several outliers, a pattern of clustering not typical for a modern novel. It is closer in form to multiauthor composite texts from the Middle Ages. Not only do the clusters not match the point-of-view characters; they don\u2019t seem to be related to volume, book, setting, type of action or pacing. […] Subtle variations in Tolkien\u2019s writing style across its 62 chapters generate the impression that The Lord of the Rings is a compilation of other texts. This pattern is largely invisible even to careful readers, but new methods of computer-assisted analysis throw it into sharp relief.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* The latest edition of Law & Liberty<\/em> reviews Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation<\/em><\/a> (2025). Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* The Culturist<\/em> on “How to Live Through a Great Decline”<\/a> with Tolkien. ($ partial paywall).<\/p>\n

* Word on Fire<\/em> on the “O Antiphons<\/em>, Advent, and Tolkien”<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* Out now and available to sample on Spotify, Joy Shannon’s “Tolkien-inspired” new album<\/a> In the Forest Singing Sorrowless<\/em> (2025). A positive review suggests Celtic ‘dark folk’, paired with Tolkien’s poetry.<\/p>\n

* The latest issue of the open-access journal The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale<\/em> reviews the book Nordic Sagas as Children\u2019s Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures<\/em><\/a> (2022). Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* And finally, please consider becoming one of my regular Patreon patrons<\/a>. I don’t like asking, you don’t like reading appeals. But Gleanings<\/em> is not yet produced by an untiring AI autobot. It’s just me rattling away on a 20 year-old workstation, working many hours per week to bring you each hand-crafted edition of the Gleanings<\/em>. Your Patreon support is welcomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #368 * The 3rd edition of Dragon de Brume’s A Bibliography of Tolkien studies in French and English (Winter 2025) is now freely available online. This edition tops 4,500 references. It’s open access, under permissive licenses. * New in Spanish, Un Cuento de Arboles (October 2025), on forests in Tolkien. At a guess, […]<\/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-18687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18687","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=18687"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18694,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18687\/revisions\/18694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}