{"id":19910,"date":"2026-10-29T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=19910"},"modified":"2026-10-30T04:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:46:55","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-463","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2026\/10\/29\/tolkien-gleanings-463\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #463"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #463<\/p>\n

* The latest German\/English journal Hither Shore<\/em> 22<\/a> is now listed on Amazon UK. Includes among others…<\/p>\n

    – “Tolkien and his Publishers”.
\n    – “Tolkien and the Unwins: Creation and Commercial Negotiation”.
\n    – “No Culture Without a Book, or Books as a Last Resort? On Orality and Literacy in Tolkien\u2019s Work”. (in German)<\/p>\n

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* Now online, a new issue of the Journal of Inkling Studies<\/a><\/em>. Largely paywalled, but with free book reviews such as a detailed one for The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933\u20131945<\/a><\/em>, and the free article by Thomas Honneger “Patterns of the Apocalypse in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and G.R.R. Martin”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The latest RELevans<\/em> open-access journal is a special issue on ‘Religion in Popular Culture’. Includes “Populaerkulturel animisme og den ontologiske vending”<\/a>, possibly relevant re: Tolkien’s personal tutor at Exeter having been one of the world’s leading experts on primitive animism. Freely available online in Danish…<\/p>\n

“… animistic phenomenology was widespread in Europe until around 1900, after which fantasy literature and film [such as Tolkien] unfolds a pervasive, transforming and reactualizing popular cultural echo of animistic ontology.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Newly added to the latest rolling Journal of Tolkien Studies<\/em>, a book review for J.R.R. Tolkien and G.B. Smith: With Wind in Our Ears<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* I missed noting the summer 2026 issue of the open-access The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale<\/a><\/em>. The issue has book reviews of, among others, British Children\u2019s Literature of the 19th Century: A Companion<\/em>, and Fantasy: A Short History<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* Matej Cadil considers “The Giant Problem of Tolkien\u2019s Legendarium”<\/a>. As in, giants.<\/p>\n

* The Christian Post<\/em> has a thoughtful look at the question “Harry Potter, Narnia, Tolkien return. What should Christians do?”<\/a><\/p>\n

“… if Christians only criticize, we surrender good stories to everyone else. Lewis, Tolkien and Bunyan did not merely complain about the stories their cultures were telling. They created better ones. Their stories reached millions with truth who might have resisted a sermon, but who could still feel sorrow at Aslan\u2019s death, recognize themselves in Gollum\u2019s slavery or long for evil to be defeated.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* “Echoes of Finnish and Old Norse in Tolkien”<\/a>, a free ‘audio preview’ of a Michael Drout interview that is otherwise behind a paywall at the Mars Hill Audio Journal<\/em>, Volume 169<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* On YouTube, the latest Life of Letters Podcast<\/em> interviews Daniel Reeve, the calligrapher for the Tolkien movies, in “Designing the Scripts for The Lord of the Rings”<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* And finally, popping up on eBay is a 1963 local history booklet on Gedling, with some interior page scans. Two contrasting snippets illustrate a village teetering between the old rural life (including a ‘wise woman’) and heavy industry that had newly arrived on the doorstep.<\/p>\n

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So… roughly around the time Tolkien and his aunt were there, the Gedling Colliery employed around 1,950 men and produced some 500,000 tons of coal a year. It was thus not a hokey little operation. It was two miles NW of the village, and its winding gear, cage-hooters and steam waggon-shunting could be heard from the village. This proximity illuminates the threat of the vandalism by “collier lads” [i.e. coal mine lads] mentioned in the book Tolkien’s Gedling<\/em> and also… “a stand-off with local miners who were threatening to raid the orchards. J.R.R. Tolkien was part of the defending force, but chose the wrong orchard.” (page 46, Tolkien’s Gedling<\/em>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #463 * The latest German\/English journal Hither Shore 22 is now listed on Amazon UK. Includes among others…     – “Tolkien and his Publishers”.     – “Tolkien and the Unwins: Creation and Commercial Negotiation”.     – “No Culture Without a Book, or Books as a Last Resort? On Orality and Literacy in Tolkien\u2019s […]<\/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-19910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19910","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=19910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19915,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19910\/revisions\/19915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}