{"id":19536,"date":"2026-07-01T22:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=19536"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:21:03","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/07\/01\/tolkien-gleanings-434\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #434"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #434<\/p>\n

* Inkings Quarterly<\/em> newsletter<\/a> brings news that The Inklings Project is offering teaching fellowships<\/a> for classroom teachers of U.S. school grades 6\u201312 (translates as ages 11 to 18). Deadline: 1st August 2026.<\/p>\n

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* The Inklings Quarterly<\/em> also notes the 2026 “Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference”<\/a> at George Fox University in Sepember 2026. On pursuing the speaker list, I note a keynote talk from John Garth on “The Undiscovered J.R.R. Tolkien”.<\/p>\n

* New to me, the open-access journal Fandom | Cultures | Research<\/a><\/em>, from the University of Marburg in Germany. Four issues so far, with some German but mostly English items. No Tolkien fandom items as yet. But the latest issue has a review of the book The Politics of Fantasy: Magic, Children\u2018s Literature, and Fandom in Putin\u2019s Russia<\/em>, while earlier issues have a couple of conference reports on the topic of doing archival \/ historical research on fandoms. (The journal and its fellow Marburg journals were not on JURN, but I’ve now indexed them).<\/p>\n

* Talking of archival materials… new on Archive.org is a scan of Computer Games<\/em> magazine for January 2003<\/a>. Which was a Lord of the Rings<\/em> special-issue.<\/p>\n

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Has an informed article surveying the history of relevant fantasy RPG videogames, with a timeline. Plus a discussion across two articles on Tolkien’s influence on videogames to 2003. The second of these is from Daniel Greenberg, then “the Creative Director for the Tolkien Franchise”…<\/p>\n

“Middle-earth has plenty of magic. Not the promiscuous magic-inflation of Dungeons & Dragons, but magic intertwines everything in Middle-earth [and it also offers] plenty of overt spells, cast not just by Wizards, but by Dwarves, Elves, Men, Wraiths, Dark Lords, etc. (Everyone but Hobbits). However, in order to tell a story about the little guy (literally) making a difference, the powerful magicians must be offstage most of the time. Some confuse this with a lack of magic in Middle-earth. Middle-earth also has lots of treasure hunts. The Hobbit is all about a treasure hunt. To a dungeon-like fortress. To kill a dragon. The Lord of the Rings is a treasure hunt, too, only in reverse. [And with plenty of RPG-like ‘valuable loot use’ as well]”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* The annual conference of Germany’s Society for Fantasy Research will discuss the theme of ‘Violence and Fantasy’<\/a>. Set to be held at the University of Cologne, 17th-19th September 2026.<\/p>\n

* And finally… RAMzine<\/em> reports that the band Hubris take on J.R.R. Tolkien for their White Shores<\/em> album<\/a>, and that the band will be touring the UK in October 2026…<\/p>\n

“Swiss post-rock band Hubris are heading into Middle-earth. The instrumental quartet from Fribourg have built four albums on Greek mythology, but composer and founder Jonathan Hohl has turned to the source he keeps coming back to. […] More than a fantasy tribute, [their new studio album] White Shores sits with J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s writing on mortality and immortality.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The album is not yet released, but the eight-minute lead track is free online, on Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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