{"id":19202,"date":"2026-05-07T05:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=19202"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:19:50","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/05\/07\/tolkien-gleanings-409\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #409"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #409<\/p>\n

* In Lombardy, northern Italy, an evening talk and academic conference “Tolkien: Fantasist or Prophet?”<\/a>. With Malcolm Guite as guest speaker…<\/p>\n

“Scheduled for Thursday 14th May 2026 [under the auspices of the Philosophicum Ghislieri Association,] Guite will argue that Tolkien had anticipated many of the definitive crises of the twenty-first century […] and that his narrative does not offer an escape from these problems, but a coherent imaginative response to them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* The Spanish Tolkien Society has a YouTube link, and a Spanish text-summary, for a recent conference talk on the history of its journal Nolme<\/em><\/a> (six issues from 2002-2024, ongoing). There are also details of future plans for this bilingual Spanish\/English journal…<\/p>\n

“Issue 7 is already underway, and looking ahead to issue 8 the team will launch an open call for papers. If you would like to collaborate with the magazine in translation, proofreading or layout work, please contact the team; the magazine is waiting for you…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* The programme book<\/a> is now available for the vast 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies (14th-16th May 2026). Papers include, among others…<\/p>\n

    — Beyond the Stars: Voyaging into the Void in Tolkien’s Early Cosmologies. [Larsen]
\n    — Ulmo and Manannan mac Lir as Lords of the Waters and Divine Intermediaries.
\n    — How Mad Ye Be: Water as Essential Boundary in Akallabeth<\/em> and Pearl<\/em>.
\n    — “We that endured the Grinding Ice”: The Helcaraxe in the Noldor Imaginary.
\n    — Ethereal: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Dreamer\u2019s Near-Death Experience in the Middle English Pearl<\/em>.
\n    — A Survey of Parents and Parenting in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
\n    — Samwise the Gardener: Parenting as Salvation and Recovery.
\n    — Where Now the Horse and Rider? The Shifting Medieval Voice in Tolkien\u2019s Afterlives.
\n    — Script and Story: Tolkien\u2019s Philological Imagination in \u201cOn Aelfwine\u2019s Spelling\u201d.
\n    — Scribal Practice and the Footnotes of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.
\n    — The Tell-Tale Tengwar, or, What the Script Reveals About the Scribe.
\n    — Tolkien, Exodus<\/em>, and the Dirty, Stinking, Lying, Pusillanimous Scribes.
\n    — Exodus from Edoras: Tracing the Old English Exodus<\/em> in The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.
\n    — The Translator as Sub-Creator: Tolkien\u2019s Beowulf<\/em>, Exodus<\/em>, and the Mythopoeic Imagination.
\n    — Tolkien and the Old English Exodus<\/em>: the Influence of the Poem on the Legendarium.<\/p>\n

    — The Dragon’s Big Pile: New Tolkien Manuscripts Discovered. [Judging by its placement, possibly a humorous squit to end the conference with?]<\/p>\n

    — Adaptations of Tolkien: Medieval Traces in Movies, Games and Other Transmedial Text. [roundtable]
\n    — One Hundred Years of Tolkien and Lewis: Fruits of a Medieval Collaboration. [roundtable]<\/p>\n

    — The Forge of Friendship: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis<\/em>. [film screening]<\/p>\n

    — The Medieval March of Wales and Its Gentry Libraries. [Sir Gawain<\/em> relevance]
\n    — Fragments and Frameworks: Rebuilding the Libraries of Early Medieval England.<\/p>\n

    — Two Paths Diverged in an Old English Wood: The Conceptual Metaphor of Wayfaring in Old English Poetry.<\/p>\n

* Dimitri Fimi considers “Bilbo’s decluttering”<\/a> of Bag End, in The Hobbit<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien: Medieval and Modern<\/em> has a new essay on “Worship, Language, and the Liturgy”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The practice of saying names and the presence of songs is an essential component of not only Tolkien\u2019s storytelling method, but also the manner in which the plot unfolds. The beauty of Sam’s song stands tall in the tower of art, and also communicates what Tolkien’s vision of worship might actually be.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* And finally, The Gregorio project<\/a> is an open-source typesetter for engraving “beautiful Gregorian chant scores”. I’m guessing it might be useful for creating fine sheet-music for Elvish singing? “Elvish singing is not a thing to miss…”, as Bilbo once remarked. Tricky to install locally, by the looks of it, but note the links to free installations that one can use online.<\/p>\n

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