You'll all have heard about this by now, but unfortunately the news spread in the Tolkien circles based on a link to a dubious newspaper article. This is the link to the original source (and I feel sorry for Dr Brown who got so much bad publicity for what appears to be mere invention by the author of the newspaper article):

http://rydalpenrhos.com/news/13/04/lifelong_passion_for_tolkien

My question:

As I have never attempted to do the following -- is it possible to purchase a copy of a PhD thesis (i.e., Sara Brown's thesis)? A thesis is a public document, right? How would I proceed?

Many congratulations, Josh! I will order this issue (and I really need to become a member of the Mythopoeic Society).

The Bodleian Library will be releasing a book to accompany the exhibition 'Magical Books: from the Middle Ages to Middle-Earth':

http://www.bodleianbookshop.co.uk/dis ... span=25000:180&m=3&dc=145

A new edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's Roverandom (edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond) will be published at the end of June 2013.

http://wayneandchristina.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/tolkien-notes-5/

I guess many of you will already have picked this up from other sources, but I thought I should mention here that a book about Father Francis Xavier Morgan and J.R.R. Tolkien has just been published in Spain:

La Conexion Española de J.R.R. Tolkien by José Manuel Ferrández Bru.


http://www.josemanuelferrandez.com/ENconexion.html