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Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #432<\/p>\n

* The Spanish Tolkien Society has launched the Aelfwine Essay Award 2026<\/a>. Now in its 22nd year, the competition offers substantial cash prizes for the winners. Deadline: 9th August 2026. So far as I can tell, English is acceptable and those writing directly in English do not need to provide a translation. Those writing in languages other than Spanish (or Catalan, Basque, or Galician) or English must also provide a good translation of their essay into either English or Spanish. <\/p>\n

* Elfenomeno<\/em> has a new English text interview with Quenya specialist Helge K. Fauskanger<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“Through ‘Ardalambion’, his Quenya course, and now ‘Speak Elf Yourself’, he has helped make a complex and often fragmentary field accessible without losing sight of its philological demands. In this interview, we speak with him about Tolkien, Elvish, linguistic invention and the strange vitality of languages that were never quite meant to be ‘finished’.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* John Garth looks at the Welsh claims for Crickhallow<\/a> as a primary-world inspiration for Tolkien ($ Substack, article mostly paywalled). That Tolkien is talking only about the placename<\/em> seems obvious in the letter, but I assume Garth’s paywalled article also evaluates the various local claims for the place<\/em> and its surroundings (as the supposed inspiration for Buckland, Bucklebury, the Brandywine Bridge or even Erebor).<\/p>\n

* A forthcoming paper I’d missed noting here, set to be presented at the forthcoming Leeds International Mediaeval Congress in July 2026. Kristine Larsen’s “Medieval Timekeeping in Middle-earth and Valinor”<\/a>. I’d assume it’ll be in the Journal of Tolkien Research<\/em> in due course. <\/p>\n

* In the early 1960s the Finnish Moomintrolls<\/em> artist Tove Jansson spent nearly two years working on illustration for The Hobbit<\/em>. Twelve full-page black-and-white drawings, ten half-page illustrations, plus smaller chapter decorations. The result was the Finnish language edition in 1962. Now English readers will be able to enjoy these same illustrations, in a new English edition titled The Hobbit: Illustrated by Tove Jansson<\/em>. The book is set for publication in September 2026.<\/p>\n

* And finally, new on Archive.org is a scan of Pipes And Tobacco Magazine<\/em> for Winter 2001<\/a>, with a long article surveying instances of leaf-growing, pipe smoking and related small pyrotechnics (e.g. Sting is edged with “a blue flame”) in Middle-earth. It doesn’t discuss Tolkien’s own primary-world preferences in pipe brands and tobacco blends.<\/p>\n

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