{"id":11699,"date":"2023-01-01T21:09:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2023-01-01T21:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T21:09:03","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/01\/01\/tolkien-gleanings-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #20<\/p>\n

* A long and detailed November 2022 guest-post on John Garth’s website goes “In search of T.W. Earp”<\/a>, a fellow-student during Tolkien’s undergraduate years at Oxford. Earp was also a guardian of the records, minutes and traditions of the various college societies during the disruptive war years. Includes portraits and pictures that I had not seen before.<\/p>\n

* “Community Greening in The Lord of the Rings<\/em>: Samwise Gamgee and the Power of Local Care”<\/a>. A revised December 2022 essay version of a presentation given at the Texas Literature and Language Symposium 2021…<\/p>\n

In the character of Samwise Gamgee, Tolkien champions a \u201clove of the land\u201d which Patrick Curry describes as \u201ca fierce attachment to highly specific and local places and things\u201d. Sam is a gardener — an excellent gardener with great knowledge and skill. He is also a curator of local ecological knowledge — he knows the landscape of the Shire, and he knows how the flora and fauna<\/a> of the Shire are distributed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* British Fairies<\/em> has another post in a long series. This New Year’s Day post notes some of the uses that writers have made of lore of ‘long-barrow sleepers’<\/a> in the British landscape. A tradition which readers will recall informed the events on the Barrow Downs in The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* In South Carolina, USA, a 2023 Regional Convivium<\/a> (great word) on the theme of “The Inklings and the Great Conversation: Friendship through Literature”. On 24th-25th February 2023…<\/p>\n

we explore ways that literature brings old friends together, helps us make new friends and continues the long friendship of minds from ancient times into the present and for the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* News of the annual Inklings Symposium 2023<\/a> in Germany. Papers can be in either German or English, and the deadline is 31st January 2023, for…<\/p>\n

the annual symposium of the Inklings Society for Literature and Aesthetics [from] 29th April to 1st May at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, [with] the theme ‘Defying Death: Immortality and Rebirth in the Fantastic’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* News of a conference panel<\/a> on the theme of “the functions of relics and ruins in Middle-earth”. Part of a conference to be held at Niagara Falls on the U.S.\/Canada border, from 23rd-26th March 2023.<\/p>\n

* A forthcoming book has been mentioned, to be titled Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien\u2019s Legendarium<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #20 * A long and detailed November 2022 guest-post on John Garth’s website goes “In search of T.W. Earp”, a fellow-student during Tolkien’s undergraduate years at Oxford. Earp was also a guardian of the records, minutes and traditions of the various college societies during the disruptive war years. Includes portraits and pictures that […]<\/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-11699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699","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=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}