{"id":11638,"date":"2022-12-30T02:46:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T02:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=11638"},"modified":"2022-12-30T02:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T02:46:25","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/12\/30\/tolkien-gleanings-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #17<\/p>\n

* Tolkien Gleanings<\/em> is now available as a handy 96-page PDF magazine<\/a>, free on Archive.org and also on Gumroad<\/a>. All my previous blog Gleanings<\/em> and MegaTolks<\/em> are here neatly collected and presented, back to 2019. Plus additional scholarly articles, a review and an interview. Easily searchable, and the Web links have also been checked for obvious breakage.<\/p>\n

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Drop me a comment on this blog, if you have something to contribute to the next PDF issue. Such as a scholarly review of a little-reviewed book. Unlike the academic journals, I’m not averse to reviews of self-published scholarly books. No poetry or fiction please, unless you’re Pauline Stainer or Alan Garner. Each issue will collect my Tolkien Gleanings<\/em> blog posts into a bundle, and add some additional texts and pictures of interest. Expect perhaps two issues per year, produced when I feel the urge.<\/p>\n

* ““The Ring in Your Voice Tells It”: Voice and the Essential Self in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium”<\/a> (2021). A free preview of a Masters dissertation, though it has a lengthy abstract.<\/p>\n

* “Theology and Fairy-Stories: A Theological Reading of Tolkien\u2019s Shorter Works”<\/a>, seemingly newly in open-access at a university repository. This was a chapter in the book Tolkien’s Shorter Works<\/a><\/em> (2008). From the same author as the above, and again seemingly new in open-access, is his “Freedom and Providence as Anti-Modern Elements”<\/a>. This examines… “the depiction of freedom and providence in Tolkien\u2019s fictional works”.<\/p>\n

* The Times<\/em> newspaper ($ paywall) has a Priscilla Tolkien obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* News of the forthcoming book The History of the Hobbit<\/a><\/em> by John D. Rateliff. Being… “a re-issue of the revised 2011 edition”. Pre-ordering now and due to ship on 16th March 2023. The book… “presents the complete unpublished text of the original manuscript of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Hobbit<\/em>, accompanied by John Rateliff\u2019s lively and informative account of how the book came to be written and published.” Also has the revised “rewrite” version of The Hobbit<\/em>, supposed to make it more adult like The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. Thankfully that was never finished. The 2023 book appears to only have a new cover, to make it uniform with other such volumes? Harper Collins also lists a “Deluxe edition” in slipcase, shipping on the same date. <\/p>\n

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* And finally, Shropshire Tourist Board on The Wrekin<\/a>… “It has been suggested that it may have been the inspiration for J R R Tolkien’s Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings”. What kind of tourist actually believes such airy marketing piffle? The ones who ‘spend big’ at the Gift Shoppe, I guess.<\/p>\n

The wording is a verbatim filch from the Amberley book 50 Gems of Shropshire<\/em> (2018), including the mangling of Middle-earth as “Middle Earth”. In this 2018 book the claim is given in passing and is un-referenced. The only likely source I can find, in print, is William Cash’s book Restoration Heart: A Memoir<\/em> in which he recalls his “Uncle Jonathan” from his childhood, his Uncle being a local amateur archaeologist and hill-walker in the mid\/late 1980s… “Jonathan explained that Tolkien used to walk up the Wrekin and used the famous defensive hill as a model for the shire in The Hobbit<\/em>.” So it sounds like that claim could have seeded a small cloud of local oral confabulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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