{"id":19796,"date":"2026-09-16T21:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=19796"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:16:17","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-453","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/09\/16\/tolkien-gleanings-453\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #453"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #453<\/p>\n

* A new issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research<\/a><\/em> is now underway. Freely available online. Includes, among others…<\/p>\n

   – “Tolkien’s Philological Imagination – On Aelfwine’s Spelling, the AB Language and the Inner Consistency of Philological Reality”.
\n   – A book review of Tolkien\u2019s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth<\/em> (2025).<\/p>\n

* The Worlds of Christopher Tolkien<\/em> is a new scholarly\/biographical book due in November 2026. Includes, among other chapters…<\/p>\n

   – “Christopher Tolkien and the Maps of Middle-earth: Between Fidelity and Reinvention”
\n   – “Christopher Tolkien and the Elvish Languages: Five Decades of Work”<\/p>\n

TolkienGuide<\/em> has the full contents-list<\/a> for the book.<\/p>\n

* Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal<\/a><\/em> has issued Supplement 1, effectively a book. Age of Discovery: Essays from the Inaugural Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference<\/em> (2026). The lead chapter is Holly Ordway asking “What Did Tolkien Really Think about Narnia?”. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien Annotations<\/a>, a new section at the Digital Tolkien Project.<\/p>\n

* In Portuguese, the Masters dissertation O espaco urbano na obra de J.R.R. Tolkien. Analise da ideia de cidade em Minas Tirith<\/a> (2025) (‘Urban space in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien: An analysis of the idea of \u200b\u200bthe city of Minas Tirith’). Freely available online, with an English abstract.<\/p>\n

* An Oxonmoot 2026 report, “Elfenomeno in Oxford”<\/a>. On walking… “I’m not used to walking so much, and I wasn’t wearing appropriate footwear”, which resulted in painful limping thereafter. I’d suggest: two pairs of hiking socks with anti-blister inners, proper moulded and pressure-point padded innersoles, good moleskin plasters on vulnerable toes and heels. With boots one side larger to accommodate all that, and boots well worn-in. <\/p>\n

* A report with excellent photos, from the Brandywine Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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* Birmingham Oratory tickets are available, for the annual Birmingham heritage open days<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Popping up on eBay, The Fox & Hounds pub at Great Haywood in Staffordshire. I can’t find any Tolkien connection, but it was a relatively small village and someone may know of one.<\/p>\n

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* Novelist Lazlo Ferran considers The Ridgeway (England’s oldest trackway) as a possible Tolkien inspiration. Part One<\/a> and Part Two<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* In Italian, L’Indiscreeto<\/em> magazine has the new long article “Tolkien contro Tolkien”<\/a>, considering how “Tolkien has won” but also simultaneously lost to the marketing machines and pap-merchants. Freely available online, in Italian.<\/p>\n

* Miriam Ellis is interviewed in the Stockholm Tolkien Society magazine<\/a>, and she offers a free PDF for the article.<\/p>\n

* Black Metal<\/em> magazine has a new five-part article series on Tolkien and Black Metal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* And finally, Appendix B of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, as an interactive map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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