{"id":11606,"date":"2022-12-23T19:51:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=11606"},"modified":"2022-12-23T19:51:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T19:51:59","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/12\/23\/tolkien-gleanings-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/category\/tolkien-gleanings\/\">Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #16<\/p>\n<p>* New on Archive.org to borrow, Roger C. Schlobin&#8217;s collection <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/isbn_9781481946087\/page\/46\/mode\/2up\">Phantasmagoria: Collected Essays on the Nature of Fantasy<\/a><\/em>. This includes the essay &#8220;The Monsters are Talismans and Transgressions: Tolkien and <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&#8221;<\/em>, which discusses how Tolkien might have subtly woven certain tones and shades from <em>Gawain<\/em> into <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. Such as having a mostly &#8220;absentee villain&#8221;. The author briefly examines Boromir as a flawed character, but curiously overlooks Sir Gawain as the obvious template for Boromir&#8217;s lone and questing journey to find the mysterious Rivendell. Though I&#8217;ll admit that this quest is easy to overlook, deeply interwoven as it is across a dozen or more points in <em>LoTR<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>* <em>Tea with Tolkien<\/em> has a useful new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teawithtolkien.com\/blog\/Letter131\">Concise Outline of the Waldman Letter (Letter 131)<\/a>. This being a very long letter\/pitch by Tolkien to an editor, written and sent in 1951. <em>The Tolkien Gateway<\/em> also has an existing <a href=\"https:\/\/tolkiengateway.net\/wiki\/Letter_131\">summary online<\/a>, but that is more verbose and slab-like.<\/p>\n<p>* Douglas A. Anderson&#8217;s new scholarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/en\/60367338\/Tom_Shippey_on_Tolkien_A_Checklist_through_2022\">Tom Shippey on Tolkien: A Checklist through 2022<\/a>. Free as a .PDF file, though regrettably only for those with an Academia.edu account.<\/p>\n<p>* New this week at <em>The European Conservative<\/em>, the article <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanconservative.com\/articles\/essay\/when-middle-earth-came-to-vienna\/\">&#8220;When Middle Earth Came to Vienna&#8221;<\/a>&#8230; &#8220;The renewed obsession with the minutiae of Tolkien\u2019s work gives me an excuse to revisit [&#8230;] the inspiration for Tolkien\u2019s Battle of the Pelennor Fields.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* A talk on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/the-pagan-tolkien-tickets-421417229277\">&#8220;The Pagan Tolkien&#8221;<\/a> is set for 16th February 2023, snow-gods permitting&#8230; &#8220;Professor Ronald Hutton shares insights on the pagan influences evident in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien&#8221;. A heavyweight speaker, though at a small Shire-like village-hall on the edge of Gloucester, England. Booking now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien Gleanings #16 * New on Archive.org to borrow, Roger C. Schlobin&#8217;s collection Phantasmagoria: Collected Essays on the Nature of Fantasy. This includes the essay &#8220;The Monsters are Talismans and Transgressions: Tolkien and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&#8221;, which discusses how Tolkien might have subtly woven certain tones and shades from Gawain into The [&hellip;]<\/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-11606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606","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=11606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}