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Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #373<\/p>\n

* This weekend University of Chicago professor Rachel Fulton Brown asked “Why was life-long Catholic J.R.R. Tolkien so obsessed with magic?”<\/a>, in which she considered Tolkien’s own understanding of magic and story. This YouTube talk is accompanied by her equally-long talk on “Tolkien’s Magic Tree”<\/a>, which considers the ‘tree’ of Tolkien’s historical spiritual influences, in terms of their stances towards claims of magic. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* At the Diocese of Grand Rapids in March 2026, a talk on “Tolkien and Technology”<\/a>… “Dr. Bradley Birzer, professor of history at Hillsdale College and fellow of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, to speak on technological themes in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien”.<\/p>\n

* The latest Heightscast<\/em> podcast considers the place of Tolkien in Middle School<\/a> classrooms in the USA. An educational term which there indicates schooling for pupils aged 12-14.<\/p>\n

* Dr Lynn Forest-Hill’s blog has a new January post<\/a> which anticipates for 2026 putting… “together all the research I have done over the last 10 years into a book tracing the history of the story of the Bevis<\/em> romance from its 10th century background to the twentieth century”. She also notes a forthcoming “study day on Sir Bevis”<\/em> in Southampton in August 2026.<\/p>\n

* Spanish Tolkien site Elfenomeno<\/em> has posted a new English complete screenplay for Tolkien’s “Smith of Wootton Major”<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* The movie magazine Empire<\/em> will have a special March 2026 issue for the 25th anniversary of the cinema release of The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>, the first movie in the LoTR<\/em> adaptation. On the news-stands any day now.<\/p>\n

* And finally… New on YouTube, a compilation of all the appearances of the character ‘J.R.R. Tolkien The Writer’ in Fackham Hall<\/em> (2025)<\/a>. A movie which passed me by, not being an Empire<\/em> reader, but which appears to be a sort of spoof\/parody of the famous British TV series Downton Abbey<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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