{"id":18953,"date":"2026-03-30T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18953"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:03:35","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/03\/30\/tolkien-gleanings-394\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #394"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #394<\/p>\n

* The Tolkien, Medieval and Modern<\/em> blog has a new Tolkien essay, “Faerie and the Edges of Possibility”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The Catholic Herald<\/em> newspaper has the long new article “Sacramental imagination and the recovery of enchantment”<\/a> via Tolkien. Freely available, at least for now.<\/p>\n

* Another conference paper has been added to the new rolling issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research<\/em>, “Tolkien’s Joyful Sorrow, the “Gift of Tears” of Medieval Mysticism, and John Donne’s Sermon “Jesus Wept”<\/a>. Provides the primary-world historical\/religious context for joyous weeping in The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. <\/p>\n

* Under active construction, HoMe Base<\/a>, part of the Digital Tolkien Project…<\/p>\n

“This site is intended to be the hub of the Digital Tolkien Project\u2019s work on The History of Middle-earth series edited by Christopher Tolkien. We are at an early stage of development, working on The Book of Lost Tales (\u2018transversely\u2019) and the Music of the Ainur \/ Ainulindal\u00eb (\u2018longitudinally\u2019) although dipping into other volumes and chapters as research questions arise. Our goal is to provide a foundation for education and scholarship with an initial focus on metadata, search, data models, bibliography, and citation systems.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Who knew? The French editions of Barbara Strachey’s Frodo<\/em> map-book, as L’atlas du Seigneur des Anneaux<\/em> (2003, 2010), also had illustrations by BD artist Jerome Lereculey.<\/p>\n

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I also found that Lereculey produced limited-edition prints of the drawings (and perhaps others for LoTR?<\/em>) circa 2003…<\/p>\n

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* And finally, on DeviantArt a new painting of Sam in “The Land of Shadow”<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #394 * The Tolkien, Medieval and Modern blog has a new Tolkien essay, “Faerie and the Edges of Possibility”. * The Catholic Herald newspaper has the long new article “Sacramental imagination and the recovery of enchantment” via Tolkien. Freely available, at least for now. * Another conference paper has been added to the […]<\/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-18953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953","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=18953"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18962,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953\/revisions\/18962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}