{"id":19369,"date":"2026-06-04T17:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=19369"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:12:58","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-420","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/06\/04\/tolkien-gleanings-420\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #420"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #420<\/p>\n

* The latest Amon Hen<\/em> magazine is available, for members of the Tolkien Society. Issue 319 (June 2026) has, among other items, articles on…<\/p>\n

   — “The Nostalgic Lothlorien: Spiritual Nostalgia in Lord of the Rings”<\/em>.
\n   — “The Sacred and the Mythic in Middle-earth”. (theology and myth)
\n   — “J.R.R. Tolkien during WWI”. (unknown focus)<\/p>\n

* Birmingham’s King Edward VI Foundation had display-boards “Celebrating Tolkien\u2019s School Days”<\/a>, at The Sarehole Festival<\/a> in Birmingham. Image No.2 on their site shows their boards. <\/p>\n

“Among the highlights was a dedicated section crafted by the Foundation Archive, that focused on Tolkien\u2019s formative years at King Edward\u2019s School, where his passion for language and literature began to flourish.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, here are images of two of the local information banners from the Tolkien Society…<\/p>\n

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There was plenty more to see and do, as Bensonblues summed up…<\/p>\n

“A gorgeous mix of cosplay, great food, swordsmiths, talks, fights, books, and art — all to celebrate the legacy, messages, meaning, and world of J.R.R. Tolkien, Brummie!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* The Birmingham Mail<\/em> local newspaper has a short report on the Sarehole Festival<\/a> in Birmingham. Online access may vary.<\/p>\n

* The latest issue of the open-access Journal of Markets & Morality<\/em> is a C.S. Lewis special issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The latest Religion & Liberty<\/em> magazine uses the opportunity of Tolkien’s Bovadium Fragments<\/em> for an article on “Tolkien and Tech”<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien: Medieval and Modern<\/em> on “Locating Tolkien’s Sacred Worldview”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* And finally, House for sale in Darnley Road<\/a>, Leeds… “This spacious property, once the residence of renowned author J.R.R. Tolkien, has been converted into three apartments”. The house at 2 Darnley Road was the family’s first house-purchase, an ownership enabled by Tolkien being promoted to Professor at Leeds. The family lived there from 1924-26, and it was the birthplace of Christopher Tolkien. A ‘Blue Plaque’ was added in 2012.<\/p>\n

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Leeds Archives has three images of No.2<\/a> from 1945, with the house in b&w and looking a bit war-weary. Prints are available from them. Above I give one of their online images a quick colourising and a time-of-day makeover, and also fix the broken gate, to make it appear more of a ‘homely house’. In reality, the mid 1920s probably would have seen net-curtains on the lower windows, and a house in chilly northern England would also have had heavy curtains hanging at the sides. The mid 1920s lacked central-heating!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #420 * The latest Amon Hen magazine is available, for members of the Tolkien Society. Issue 319 (June 2026) has, among other items, articles on…    — “The Nostalgic Lothlorien: Spiritual Nostalgia in Lord of the Rings”.    — “The Sacred and the Mythic in Middle-earth”. (theology and myth)    — “J.R.R. Tolkien […]<\/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-19369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19369","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=19369"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19381,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19369\/revisions\/19381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}