Tolkien Gleanings #190.
* Another round of Oxford’s Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series talks on Tolkien. The first is on 22nd April 2024 and will examine his reaction to his late fame. Also set to include “Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar” and “The characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan”, among others.
* Four earlier Tolkien 50th talks newly online at YouTube.
* A new issue of Mythlore, with a lead article on “Tolkien Augustinian Theodicy, and ‘Lovecraftian’ Evil”. Freely available online.
* In the latest Journal of Inklings Studies “C.S. Lewis on Female Scholars: A Reply to John D. Rateliff” ($ paywall)… “What Lewis rebukes is academic complacency and vanity, not female researchers, many of whom Lewis respected and even befriended.” The new issue also has a number of free reviews of recent books on Tolkien.
* Now online, Tolkien Society 2024 Seminar Paper Abstracts. This is the forthcoming one on Romanticism in July 2024, with papers including ““Fiery the Angels rose”: The Romantic Prometheanism of Tolkien’s Enemies”.
* ‘Arcastar Lerinosse: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Arda’, a one-day Tolkien Workshop at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Seemingly a student-focused event, and set for 28th June 2024.
* Newly listed on Amazon UK, Tolkien Spirituality: Constructing Belief and Tradition in Fiction-based Religion. Set for publication in July 2024, a 350-page book as part of academic publisher De Gruyter’s ‘Religion and Society’ series.
* And finally, Tolkien’s ““Broad Relic” in the Notion Club Papers is the island of Flat Holm” in the Bristol Channel, England.
The Spyders of Burslem 