{"id":18708,"date":"2025-12-31T17:53:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18708"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:56:20","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/12\/31\/tolkien-gleanings-370\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #370"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #370<\/p>\n

Happy New Year!<\/em><\/p>\n

* Alas, Not Me<\/em> on “The Digital Tolkien Project – How it Helps My Work”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* A repository collection of 101 very early Tolkien fanzines, all scanned and online<\/a>. Freely available. Lighthouse<\/em> 13 (August 1965)…<\/p>\n

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* Literary Hub<\/em> has an official free excerpt-article from Michael Drout’s new book, “Michael D.C. Drout Remembers the Impact of The Lord of the Rings<\/em> and The Hobbit<\/em> on His Childhood”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* In the latest Forum Auctions catalogue<\/a> (November 2025), a proof for the cover of the 1961 British children’s paperback of The Hobbit<\/em>…<\/p>\n

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* A curious self-published pamphlet in Italian, newly published on Amazon, Tolkien vs Lovecraft: Confronto sul concetto di Morte<\/a><\/em> (‘Tolkien vs Lovecraft: A comparison of their concepts of death’) (2025).<\/p>\n

* Clas Merdin<\/em> looks back on the year in his “Matters Arthurian in 2025”<\/a>. He notes that the 40th volume (XL) of the journal Arthurian Literature<\/em> had an article on “fairies and cosmic providence in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* And finally, Wormwoodiana’<\/em>s Second-Hand Bookshops in Britain: 2025 Report<\/a>. Includes the interesting detail that…<\/p>\n

“… another development is the spread of a small selection of second-hand books in a variety of places. For example, almost every historic church visited on a book-hunting holiday this year had second-hand books for sale, usually several hundred each.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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