{"id":19165,"date":"2026-05-03T22:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=19165"},"modified":"2026-05-03T22:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:56:55","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/05\/03\/tolkien-gleanings-407\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #407"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #407<\/p>\n

* The Oxford C.S.Lewis Society has posted its list of April-June 2026 events<\/a>. Talks include…<\/p>\n

    — J.R.R. Tolkien and the Patriotism of G.K. Chesterton: Little England, The Shire, and Notting Hill.
\n    — Biography of C.S. Lewis\u2019s Library: The Kilns\u2019 Years.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien: Medieval and Modern<\/em> muses on “Tolkien\u2019s Metaphysics”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The Tolkien Pop!<\/em> podcast has a new long interview with Dr. Luke Shelton<\/a>, editor of Mallorn<\/em> and author of a recent thesis on the reception of The Lord of the Rings<\/em> among young readers.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien Oddments<\/em> tracks down the “Books Dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien During His Lifetime”<\/a>. (Substack, but freely available).<\/p>\n

* Miriam Ellis reviews Malcolm Guite’s new book Galahad and the Grail<\/em><\/a> (2026).<\/p>\n

* The Church Times<\/em> reviews Fairies: A history<\/em><\/a> (2026).<\/p>\n

* The Gondolin Student Project<\/a> has built Tolkien’s Gondolin in 3D and rendered a view of it using the open-source Blender software.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, via a crisp eBay scan, a restored and colorised ‘magic-lantern’ slide of Warwick Castle from the river.<\/p>\n

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“June-July 1914: Tolkien spends the early part of his vacation visiting Edith in Warwick. Probably on this visit he draws a view of Warwick Castle seen from under a bridge, apparently made from a punt or boat on the river. He will later date it ‘1913-14?'” — Hammond & Scull, Chronology<\/em>.<\/p>\n

O fading town upon a little hill,
\nOld memory is waning in thine ancient gates,
\nThe robe gone grey, thine old heart almost still;
\nThe castle only, frowning, ever waits<\/p>\n

— Tolkien, from the first version of “Kortirion among the Trees” (1915).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #407 * The Oxford C.S.Lewis Society has posted its list of April-June 2026 events. Talks include…     — J.R.R. Tolkien and the Patriotism of G.K. Chesterton: Little England, The Shire, and Notting Hill.     — Biography of C.S. Lewis\u2019s Library: The Kilns\u2019 Years. * Tolkien: Medieval and Modern muses on “Tolkien\u2019s Metaphysics”. * […]<\/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-19165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165","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=19165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19169,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions\/19169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}