{"id":18867,"date":"2026-03-04T20:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18867"},"modified":"2026-03-07T12:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:12:49","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-386","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/03\/04\/tolkien-gleanings-386\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #386"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #386<\/p>\n

* A new PhD thesis from Dalhousie University, \u201cI do not desire healing\u201d: Grief as Identity in Medieval (ist) Literatures<\/a> (2026). This has chapters or sub-chapters on: melancholic pronouns in The Lord of the Rings<\/em>; Eowyn disguising herself as Dernhelm; and grief\/death in relation to Luthien and Arwen. Freely available online. <\/p>\n

* Some more details about the coming screen series “Forge of Friendship”<\/a>. Set to be… “five hour-long documentaries” with interviews, music and re-enactments, exploring the friendship of Lewis and Tolkien…<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no set release date, but we are moving into post-production.\u201d When asked, the [filmmakers, after showing a one-hour preview cut] said \u201cWe are waiting on more funding, but it could potentially be released this year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* The Independent Review<\/em> reviews Tolkien, Philosopher of War<\/em><\/a> (2024).<\/p>\n

* Apparently set for publication by De Gruyter in June 2026, according to Amazon UK, Tolkien Spirituality: Constructing Belief and Tradition in Fiction-based Religion<\/em>. Possibly just a printing of this 2014 open-access Phd thesis<\/a>, but I guess there’s a chance it could be an updated and expanded version for print? By the same author, “Religious uses of fantasy fiction”<\/a>, an open-access chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief<\/em> (2023).<\/p>\n

* Midland History<\/em> journal has a review of the book C.S. Lewis\u2019s Oxford<\/em><\/a> (2024) ($ paywall). As a Midlander I’ve never thought of Oxford as being in the English Midlands, but it squeezes in here.<\/p>\n

* Seemingly popping out of embargo this week at a university repository, “Tolkien and Trees”<\/a>, a book chapter from 2013.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien artist Miriam Ellis is anticipating… “my forthcoming book, A Shire Walking-Party”<\/em><\/a> and a new blog post gives a preview of her thoughts on the appearance of Woodhall.<\/p>\n

* “Oxford, Physics, and the Day I Saw Tolkien Summon Henry”<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“In the fall of 1970, I arrived at Oxford University as a first-term undergraduate reading physics at Merton College. […] I would often see J.R.R. Tolkien wandering around the College in his half-cloak, walking stick in hand. He was already elderly, already legendary, yet physically present: a small, unmistakable figure moving through the same quads I crossed on my way to hall.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Small” probably indicates distance, rather than that he shrunk to hobbit-size in old age!<\/p>\n

* And finally, a UK local newspaper reports Vintage recordings of The Hobbit<\/em> unearthed on Metro line<\/a> in Tyne and Wear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #386 * A new PhD thesis from Dalhousie University, \u201cI do not desire healing\u201d: Grief as Identity in Medieval (ist) Literatures (2026). This has chapters or sub-chapters on: melancholic pronouns in The Lord of the Rings; Eowyn disguising herself as Dernhelm; and grief\/death in relation to Luthien and Arwen. Freely available online. * […]<\/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-18867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867","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=18867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18872,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867\/revisions\/18872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}