{"id":19154,"date":"2026-05-01T21:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=19154"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:12:03","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-406","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/05\/01\/tolkien-gleanings-406\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #406"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #406<\/p>\n

* New listings for the May and June 2026 Tolkien Research Seminars<\/a> at the University of Oxford…<\/p>\n

   – Lexical Palimpsests: Old English and Old Norse loan words in Tolkien’s Gnomish Lexicon<\/em> (1917).
\n   – Tolkien the Parodist: Revisiting Songs for the Philologists<\/em>.
\n   – Tolkien and Sawles Warde<\/em>.
\n   – Genealogy of Smaug: Draconic influences on Tolkien.
\n   – Charting Faerie: Cartography as the threshold of enchantment.
\n   – The Verbal System of Quenya: Structures, functions, and linguistic models in Tolkien\u2019s linguistic invention.<\/p>\n

* Luna Press have picked up the book Las Vacaciones de un Hobbite<\/em><\/a> (2022) for an English translation. In their English edition it will be titled A Hobbit\u2019s Holiday: J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Journeys in the Belle Epoque<\/em>. The book apparently considers the young Tolkien\u2019s various real journeys as formative encounters, made in unfamiliar landscapes such as Switzerland, Scotland, Paris, Brittany, Cornwall etc.<\/p>\n

* The Inklings<\/em> blog notices the 100th Anniversary of the meeting of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis<\/a>. (Substack, but freely available online).<\/p>\n

* The Imaginative Conservative<\/em> has a new article on “Tolkien, Chesterton, & the Sloth of England”<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* Matej Cadil starts blogging his artistic journey through Tolkien<\/a>. (Substack, but freely available online).<\/p>\n

“So here we set out together: chapter by chapter through The Hobbit. In each post I\u2019ll reflect on Tolkien\u2019s text \u2014 its story, themes, connections, and what caught my attention \u2014 and then turn to my illustration for that chapter to discuss my choices, influences, and small discoveries that shaped it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* And finally, in France the La Cuivrerie de Cerdon seems to be a newly restored and reopened large ex-industrial site, now specialising in crafts metalwork training. It’s located about 40 miles east of the city of Lyon in central France. This summer and autumn they have a Tolkien and metalwork exhibition<\/a>… <\/p>\n

“a unique exhibition where copperwork meets the imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien. Through the theme of forging, discover the fascinating links between Middle-earth and our industrial heritage. La Cuivrerie de Cerdon opens the doors to a universe where metal comes to life and speaks of legends.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Tolkien Gleanings #406 * New listings for the May and June 2026 Tolkien Research Seminars at the University of Oxford…    – Lexical Palimpsests: Old English and Old Norse loan words in Tolkien’s Gnomish Lexicon (1917).    – Tolkien the Parodist: Revisiting Songs for the Philologists.    – Tolkien and Sawles Warde.    – Genealogy of Smaug: Draconic influences […]<\/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-19154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19154","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=19154"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19164,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19154\/revisions\/19164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}