{"id":11942,"date":"2023-01-12T09:09:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T09:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=11942"},"modified":"2023-01-12T09:09:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T09:09:22","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/01\/12\/tolkien-gleanings-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #29"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #29<\/p>\n

* “Song Lyrics in The Hobbit<\/em>: What They Tell Us”<\/a>, a 2022 undergraduate dissertation by a mature student, for the University of Southern Mississippi in the USA. Open access and public.<\/p>\n

* News of a forthcoming book, via a slightly-expired call for papers<\/a>. Titled Tolkien as a translator: investigations on Tolkien translation studies<\/em>, and at a guess probably pencilled-in for 2024. The topic is…<\/p>\n

“Tolkien as a great translator [who deserves] a collection of essays on his way of translating, the criteria he used, the choices that distinguished his style and that inevitably influenced his sub-creation(s), and the author\u2019s thoughts on translation itself.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Since I’m no longer listening to the BBC, it’s taken me a while to twig to the existence of their recent Open Country<\/a><\/em> podcast. This ‘audio countryside ramble’ took a November 2022 open-air walk in the Cotswolds, with Tolkien scholar… “John Garth to find traces of Tolkien Land at Faringdon Folly and the Rollright Stones”. The .MP3 is available at Listen Notes<\/em>…<\/p>\n

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The tower is debatable. Probably Tolkien’s initial Oxford audience for the famous Beowulf<\/em> lecture would have recognised the similarity, but in Worlds<\/em> Garth wants a poster of it to be the inspiration for the hill of Hobbiton. I wasn’t convinced. Yet evidence for the ancient Rollright Stones is clear, for instance when in 1948 Tolkien berated his publisher on the topic of the Farmer Giles of Ham<\/em> illustrations…<\/p>\n

The incident of the dog and dragon occurs near Rollright, by the way, and though that is not plainly stated at least it clearly takes place in Oxfordshire. [As currently illustrated] The dragon is absurd. Ridiculously coy, and quite incapable of performing any of the tasks laid on him by the author.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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* And finally, according to the Pipedia<\/a>, there has yet to be even a “list of literature where the pipe plays a major role in character and\/or plot development”, let alone a book survey of such. That’s an opportunity for someone, though Middle-earth is already well-served by the new third edition of Pipe Smoking in Middle Earth<\/em> (2022). Tolkien himself used a standard Dunhill briar pipe, of the sort common in the trenches at the time of the First World War — partly due to Mr. Dunhill sending them out to front-line soldiers and officers. The type of pipe-bowl also causes some aficionados of pipe-weed to call it a ‘pot’ or ‘billiard’ type of pipe, which I have to assume is correct. Sadly Tolkien did not sport a long Gandalf-ian \u2018Churchwarden\u2019 type of pipe. His favoured tobacco came in tins of Capstan Navy Cut \u2018Blue\u2019 flake pipe-tobacco, apparently a smooth and creamy Virginia blend today referred to as \u2018Capstan Navy Cut Ready Rubbed\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #29 * “Song Lyrics in The Hobbit: What They Tell Us”, a 2022 undergraduate dissertation by a mature student, for the University of Southern Mississippi in the USA. Open access and public. * News of a forthcoming book, via a slightly-expired call for papers. Titled Tolkien as a translator: investigations on Tolkien translation […]<\/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-11942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11942","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=11942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}