{"id":19732,"date":"2026-07-31T18:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=19732"},"modified":"2026-07-31T18:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:14:16","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-448","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/07\/31\/tolkien-gleanings-448\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #448"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #448<\/p>\n

* New from Spain’s University of Salamanca, the open-access book Echoes of Fantasy and Reality<\/a><\/em> (2026). In English. Contains, among many others, the chapter “Xenia: Homeric Hospitality In Frodo\u2019s Journey”. This compares the ancient concept of xenia<\/em> (hospitality) as found in The Odyssey<\/em>, with the hospitality offered to Frodo.<\/p>\n

* New from the blog at Benedictine College, “Odysseus, Tolkien, Lewis, and the Piercing Joy of Nostalgia That Brings Tears”<\/a>. Being the free first chapter “Eucatastrophe in Ithaka: Reading the Odyssey with Plato, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien”, from the author’s book Falling Inward: Humanities in the Age of Technology<\/em> (2026, revised and expanded second edition).<\/p>\n

* The Thoughts on Tolkien<\/em> blog considers Tolkien and Beowulf<\/em> studies<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“Tolkien\u2019s scholarly engagement with Beowulf deserves a closer reading and broader engagement from Old English and Beowulf scholars than it has received so far.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* New on Archive.org, Parma Eldalamberon<\/em> issue 23<\/a> (2024). Tolkien\u2019s own texts, his three descriptions of the Feanorian alphabet, and his five texts on Eldarin pronouns. <\/p>\n

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Issue 23 appears to be no longer available at its original Bookpatch link, and Amazon UK<\/a> can only offer it in the form of a single second-hand copy.<\/p>\n

* The University of Chicago magazine has “Wonderland”<\/a>, a long article on the making of their fine Korshak collection of fantastic art. Freely available online. A selection from the collection can be had as a sumptious but affordable hardback, Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from The Korshak Collection<\/em> (2025). <\/p>\n

* Matej Cadil has a long article considering “The Curious Case of the Thinking Fox”<\/a>, a creature seen early in The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. (Substack, but free).<\/p>\n

* The Notion Club Papers<\/em> blog briefly argues that “Hobbits had disproportionately large hands”<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* And finally, the local press report that Shropshire’s forthcoming Brandywine Festival of role-playing hobbitry has unexpectedly released 1,200 day-pass tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #448 * New from Spain’s University of Salamanca, the open-access book Echoes of Fantasy and Reality (2026). In English. Contains, among many others, the chapter “Xenia: Homeric Hospitality In Frodo\u2019s Journey”. This compares the ancient concept of xenia (hospitality) as found in The Odyssey, with the hospitality offered to Frodo. * New from […]<\/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-19732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732","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=19732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19735,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732\/revisions\/19735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}