Gleanings from Tolkien's Garden

For almost four decades, Renée Vink, co-founder of

the Dutch Tolkien Society Unquendor and translator

of several of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, has been studying

the Legendarium of Arda and writing about it. Among

her output are numerous contributions to the Society’s

magazine, an increasing list of scholarly essays, and

the monograph Wagner and Tolkien: Mythmakers. In

addition, she has edited several issues of Lembas Extra,

Unquendor’s biennial magazine.

This volume contains thirteen of her articles, focusing on various subjects

from translation, Elvish affairs, books by female authors with links to Tolkien’s

works, Jewish aspects of his Dwarves, fan-fiction, and last but not least, another

Wagnerian parallel. Nine of these, the oldest dating from the early 1990s,

were published previously in various journals or conference proceedings. The

remaining four are new.

Unquendor chairman since 2013, Jan van Breda, has provided an introduction

to the volume:

“The members of Unquendor have come to know Renée as an

insightful writer, a sharp thinker, and (if needs be)

a fierce debater on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.”