{"id":18759,"date":"2026-01-17T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18759"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:39:10","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-375","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/01\/17\/tolkien-gleanings-375\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #375"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #375<\/p>\n

* “The Pen of Middle-earth, Part II: The Instruments of Creation \u2013 Tolkien’s Pens, Nibs, and Inkwells”<\/a>. Which reminds me of the lovely Birmingham Pen Museum<\/a> in Tolkien’s home city. I wonder if this museum has a small Tolkien-related display (I don’t recall seeing one there, on a visit some years ago), and if not perhaps they should have one? <\/p>\n

* New in the current rolling issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research<\/em>, a review of Tolkien\u2019s Glee: A Reading of the Songs in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* Readers will recall that, on his Kingship, Aragorn told the hobbits… “my realm lies also in the North, and I shall come there one day”. Artist Miriam Ellis this week depicts some glimpses of the Days of the King on the Shores of Lake Evendim<\/a>, after the events of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* An initial work-in-progress, now online as the Tolkien Books Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* A new accessible biography, The Brothers Grimm: A Biography<\/a><\/em> (2025), from Yale University Press. <\/p>\n

* Karen Wynn Fonstad’s acclaimed Middle-earth atlas is now in Polish as Atlas Srodziemia<\/em>, and in Spanish as Atlas de la Tierra Media<\/em>. Amazon UK has it that these translations were both published in November 2025.<\/p>\n

* The Finnish national epic and ‘young Tolkien fave’ the Kalevala<\/em> is now a big-screen movie. Titled as Kalevala \u2013 Kullervon tarina<\/em> the feature-length movie is in cinemas in Finland. The Nordic Film & TV Fund has an English interview<\/a> with Director Antti J. Jokinen and lead actor Elias Salonen, accompanied by stills.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, nominations open for Tolkien Society Awards 2026<\/a>. First-round deadline: Sunday 1st February 2026. Also inviting nominations is The Mythopoeic Society’s Mythopoeic Awards 2026<\/a>, with a 15th February 2026 deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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