{"id":18884,"date":"2026-03-11T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18884"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:23:20","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-388","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/03\/11\/tolkien-gleanings-388\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #388"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #388<\/p>\n

* Who knew? There’s a Centre for Fantasy Literature Studies<\/a> at the National Academy of Sciences in the Ukraine. The Centre was established in 2015, and they recently had a two-day online conference in January 2026 themed around “Music, Dance and Theatre in Fantasy Worlds”. Tolkien presentations included…<\/p>\n

   – \u201cAs Above, So Below: As Music, So Magic (in Tolkien\u2019s Legendarium)\u201d.
\n   – \u201cTo Music of a Pipe Unseen: Music as Metaliterary Device in The Lord of the Rings\u201d<\/em>.
\n   – \u201cLyrical Lauding in The Lord of the Rings<\/em>: Adapting Tolkien\u2019s Songs\u201d.
\n   – “Luthien\u2019s Dance as Love Embodied”.<\/p>\n

A book of free abstracts is available in English<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The University Press of Mississippi is planning the academic chapter-book titled Returning to the Shelf: Memory, Reading, and the Afterlives of Childhood Books<\/em>, on the topic of… “the enduring presence of childhood reading in adult life”. Either through “memories of early reading” and\/or adult re-reading. Set for January 2029, with a submission of interest \/ abstract deadline<\/a> of 31st March 2026.<\/p>\n

* DoxaMoot: Orthodox Christian Tolkien Conference<\/a> is set for 4th-6th September 2026, in North Carolina. Set to include a lecture on… “the theological and symbolic significance of Tolkien\u2019s monsters”.<\/p>\n

* New at the latest rolling edition of the Journal of Tolkien Research<\/em>, book reviews of Numenor, The Mighty and Frail<\/a><\/em> (2025) and Queer Approaches to Tolkien<\/a><\/em> (2025).<\/p>\n

* Sons of Wayland<\/em> goes “Riding Through Tolkien Country”<\/a> on a motorcycle. Though I have to say that we have no evidence that Tolkien visited Lydney Park in Gloucestershire. He wrote a paper related to the archaeology found there, but…<\/p>\n

“there is no evidence that he participated in the dig at Lydney Park, stayed there as a guest of the Wheelers on a number of occasions, or even visited Lydney” (Hammond & Scull, Reader’s Guide, 2007 edition)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which is not to say that he might not have stopped off to take in the site, perhaps while travelling to the south-west or Wales on holiday, at some later time. Anyway there’s a pleasing poster of the motorcycle route taken through Tolkien-like landscapes, and the route looks like a very fine sampling of the countryside to the west and south of Birmingham.<\/p>\n

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* MatejCadil<\/a> has a new set of story-posters for The Hobbit<\/em>, freely available on DeviantArt.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, here in the UK the Royal Mail has revealed their set of The Lord of the Rings<\/em> postage-stamps<\/a>. Turns out the set is just film-stills and marks the anniversary of the movie trilogy. Rather than marking the 100th anniversary of Tolkien beginning his many translations (Beowulf <\/em>and Pearl<\/em> in 1926, others later).<\/p>\n

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Tolkien Gleanings #388 * Who knew? There’s a Centre for Fantasy Literature Studies at the National Academy of Sciences in the Ukraine. The Centre was established in 2015, and they recently had a two-day online conference in January 2026 themed around “Music, Dance and Theatre in Fantasy Worlds”. Tolkien presentations included…    – \u201cAs Above, […]<\/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-18884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18884","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=18884"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19097,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18884\/revisions\/19097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}