{"id":11262,"date":"2022-12-05T07:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T07:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=11262"},"modified":"2022-12-05T07:49:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T07:49:34","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/12\/05\/tolkien-gleanings-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #7<\/p>\n

* The new book From Imagination to Faerie: Tolkien’s Thomist Fantasy<\/a><\/em> now has a partial Google Books preview and TOCs…<\/p>\n

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* “The Vyne Ring in context: powerful people and powerful rings during the end of Roman Britain”<\/a>, an open-access English chapter from the sumptuous and scholarly Rings of Power<\/em> print book (2019, 2 volumes) on the cultural archaeology and thinking on ancient finger-rings. Readers will recall Tolkien’s connections with this and Nodens.<\/p>\n

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This open-access chapter also gives the TOCs, and there one finds the essay paired in the book with Thomas Honegger’s German-language “Tolkien und die Tradition der Ringe der Macht”. I find an English version of Honegger’s article is freely available<\/a>. The book’s TOCs also show that most of the other chapters are in German. There appears to be no open-access version, other than these chapters.<\/p>\n

* The new book Beowulf as Children’s Literature<\/em> (December 2021, $ paywalled on JSTOR) considers the 100 or so children’s adaptations of Beowulf<\/em> which appeared during the 19th and 20th century, and at the end has a chapter on “Children’s Beowulf<\/em> for the New Tolkien Generation”.<\/p>\n

* The open-access “To Bring Back some Eagleness to Eagles: On Bird Worldings in the Bronze Age”<\/a> (2020). Relevant to Tolkien’s understanding of eagles in ancient Northern history and tales. The… <\/p>\n

“research community has paid very little attention to avian creatures [and] birds seem to vanish from the air [in recent cultural studies of farming and landscape, since] Marxism still seem to rule contemporaneous Bronze Age research”. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Goes on to provide an interesting non-communist cultural\/archaeological study (“According to north European birdlore, eagles were thought to be immortal”), and then the last third rapidly leaves the Bronze Age and comes up to date. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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