The Mythopoeic Society just announced the 2008 Mythopoeic Award finalists. Of particular interest to Tolkien fans is the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies.
According to David Oberhelman, the Awards Administrator for the Mythopoeic Society, “The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on Tolkien, Lewis, and/or Williams that make […]

Julian Bradfield writes to tell me that he has finally begun to make back issues of the Elvish linguistic journal Quettar available to purchase. These have been long out of print and quite difficult to come by until now. Significant scholarly work was publilshed in Quettar, so it is very exciting that these are […]

Harm J. Schelhaas, the international liaison of the Dutch Tolkien Society Unquendor sent along this press release:

The proceedings of the 5th Unquendor Lustrum Conference 2006 are now available, published in a special Lembas Extra issue. The 2006 Lustrum celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Dutch Tolkien Society Unquendor. Ron Pirson PhD and Dorine Ratulangie MA […]

Amazon.com just put this year’s volume of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review up for advance order, and Michael Drout was kind enough to provide me with a summary of the contents, which I have included below. The book (these journal issues really are books, with 300+ pages each, hard covers, and a […]

The double issue number 101/102 of Mythlore (published by the Mythopoeic Society) just went to the printer, and should be delivered to subscribers in three to four weeks, according to Janet Brennan Croft, the editor of the journal. Here are the contents of interest for Tolkien collectors (click this link for the complete list […]