{"id":10181,"date":"2022-08-17T12:33:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=10181"},"modified":"2022-08-17T12:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T11:33:02","slug":"megatolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/08\/17\/megatolk\/","title":{"rendered":"MegaTolk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time for another “MegaTolk”. Newly appeared interesting items on Tolkien that are open and public, since my last round-up in which was back in May 2022<\/a>…<\/p>\n

* Worlds Made of Heroes: a tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a><\/em>. A complete scholarly ebook in open access, from the University of Porto. Includes, among others…<\/p>\n

– The importance of songs in the making of heroes.<\/p>\n

– Wounds in the world: the shared symbolism of death-sites in Middle-earth.<\/p>\n

– From epic narrative to music : Tolkien\u2019s universe as inspiration for The First Age of Middle-earth: a Symphony.<\/p>\n

– Character and perspective: the multi-quest in J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

– Geoffrey of Monmouth and J.R.R. Tolkien: myth-making and national identity in the twelfth and twentieth centuries. (Also a useful survey of Tolkien’s West Midlands patriotisms)<\/p>\n

– Mythology and cosmology in J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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* Song Lyrics in The Hobbit<\/em>: What They Tell Us<\/a> (Detects in the lyrics the different relationships that each race has with time).<\/p>\n

* “Pearls” of Pearl<\/em>: Medieval Appropriations in Tolkien\u2019s Mythology<\/a>. (Excellent study of the likely influence of Pearl<\/em>)<\/p>\n

* The image of the tree as the embodiment of cosmological and solar aspects in J.R.R. Tolkien’s works<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The Joys of Latin and Christmas Feasts: J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Farmer Giles of Ham<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Medieval Animals in Middle-earth<\/a>. (Found from 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time for another “MegaTolk”. Newly appeared interesting items on Tolkien that are open and public, since my last round-up in which was back in May 2022… * Worlds Made of Heroes: a tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien. A complete scholarly ebook in open access, from the University of Porto. Includes, among others… – The importance of […]<\/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-10181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181","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=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}