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Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #462<\/p>\n

* Just published, a substantial new book on Tolkien’s friend Lewis, From Airmen to Aslan with C.S. Lewis: How His Work with the R.A.F. Influenced His Life and Writing<\/a><\/em> (October 2026). The author is the General Editor of Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* From Germany, the Tolkien Seminar<\/a> now has a dedicated and elegant new website. Announced there is the 2027 Seminar (conference) on “Poetry in Tolkien\u2019s Works”, set for October 2027. The call-for-papers for this event is pencilled in for “early 2027”.<\/p>\n

* Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media<\/a><\/em> has a call-for-papers for a special issue on “Immersion and Emergence in the Fantastic”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The Ethnocynology Podcast<\/em> (science of dogs in prehistory) has a new special episode on Tolkien and Dogs<\/a>, surveying dogs and hounds in the legendarium. Start listening after the first break, to avoid half an hour of nostalgia about the Peter Jackson movies.<\/p>\n

* The Dwarrow Scholar<\/em> has a new long post on “Dragons: From Ancient Serpents to the Great Worms of Middle-earth”<\/a>. The substantial Tolkien section starts a third of the way in.<\/p>\n

* In France, a local newspaper notes that the annual “ValJoly Imaginaire festival pays tribute to Tolkien this year”<\/a>. The event has just ended tonight, though, and so… one has to fear that the weekend’s heavy rain and high winds may have dampened it somewhat.<\/p>\n

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* From Black Metal<\/em> magazine this week, another post in their series Tolkien and Black Metal: Part 8<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“Something has shifted in the last five or six years. For most of its history, ‘Tolkien black metal’ was a description you’d apply retroactively to a scattered handful of bands — a lens critics used, not a box that bands checked for themselves. [But now we obviously have a] recognizable, reproducible scene in its own right.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* A few posts ago I linked a hand-made mega-map of Middle-earth. This now has an updated version<\/a>, expanded to show the northern and southern wastes and with a few small additions such as the Forsaken Inn.<\/p>\n

* And finally, a free LoRA style plugin for the outstanding new model MOSS-Image, Moss Medieval Illuminations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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