{"id":19836,"date":"2026-10-06T21:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=19836"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:23:20","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-457","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/10\/06\/tolkien-gleanings-457\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #457"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #457<\/p>\n

* New in the latest rolling Journal of Tolkien Research<\/em>, the article “Ornamental Letters in Tolkien’s Manuscripts”<\/a>, which makes comparisons with medieval lettering.<\/p>\n

* A new book in Italian by Gianfranco de Turris, to be published as an ebook in a few days, Il Professore Che Amava i Draghi: Miti e simboli in J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a><\/em> (2026) (‘The Professor Who Loved Dragons: Myths and Symbols in J.R.R. Tolkien’)…<\/p>\n

“This book brings together 31 of his texts — including articles, prefaces, essays, miscellaneous writings, and, in the appendix, an ironic play aptly titled Teatrino Tolkieniano, all published between 1979 and 2026, along with a complete bibliography of his writings on Tolkien from 1968 to the present.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* And forthcoming from France, with a November 2026 release date, Michael Devaux’s 640-page J.R.R. Tolkien et la foi: La consonance chretienne de la Terre du Milieu<\/a><\/em> (‘J.R.R. Tolkien and Faith: The Christian Undertones of Middle-earth’). Not yet listed on the Editions Salvator<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

* From Russia, the journal article “Dreams In The Lost Road<\/em> And The Notion Club Papers”<\/em><\/a> (2025). English abstract and bibliography, Russian PDF. Freely available for download.<\/p>\n

* From Ukraine, the short conference paper Inhabiting Middle-earth: The Evolution of Howard Shore’s Musical Worlds in The Two Towers<\/em><\/a> (2026). In English, and freely available online.<\/p>\n

* On Reddit, “I visited the birthplace of J.R.R. Tolkien in Bloemfontein. It is now a guesthouse called the Hobbit Hotel”<\/a>. <\/p>\n

* The Mythopoeic Society’s domain www.mythsoc.org appears to be gone, and the whole site is now “403 Forbidden”<\/a>. Access through a VPN was also tried, with the same result.<\/p>\n

* Of possible interest to Gleanings<\/em> readers, an excellent local freeware Windows copy-editor and proof-reader<\/a>, which can handle 60,000+ words easily. Tested by myself, and I find it checks a novel in about an hour and also interfaces very nicely with Microsoft Word. Forbidden to the anti-AI zealots, obviously, but many will welcome such tools.<\/p>\n

* And finally, newly on eBay, a picture of the ford on the Green Lane (one of the entrances to Sarehole, Birmingham) as seen in winter. On a postcard postmarked February 1910, thus it was likely photographed 1909 or 1910 — and thus is seen much as the young Tolkien brothers would have known it in winter. Here restored and colourised.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien Gleanings #457 * New in the latest rolling Journal of Tolkien Research, the article “Ornamental Letters in Tolkien’s Manuscripts”, which makes comparisons with medieval lettering. * A new book in Italian by Gianfranco de Turris, to be published as an ebook in a few days, Il Professore Che Amava i Draghi: Miti e simboli […]<\/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-19836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19836","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=19836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19840,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19836\/revisions\/19840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}