{"id":12044,"date":"2023-01-18T07:03:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T07:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12044"},"modified":"2023-01-18T07:03:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T07:03:50","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/01\/18\/tolkien-gleanings-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/category\/tolkien-gleanings\/\">Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #31<\/p>\n<p>* Now public, a recording of a new public lecture on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=usDl-qgsPEA\">&ldquo;&ldquo;I hold the key&#8221;: J.R.R. Tolkien through interviews and reminiscences&#8221;<\/a>. Given by Dimitra Fimi at the University of Birmingham, in May 2022.<\/p>\n<p>* My unearthing of the location of <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/01\/15\/c-s-lewiss-1936-walk-near-buxton-derbyshire\/\">C.S. Lewis&#8217;s 1936 walk near Buxton, Derbyshire<\/a>, plus a small correction to an important memoir of Tolkien.<\/p>\n<p>* New on Archive.org to borrow, the book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/therebackagainin0000lyon\/page\/n7\/mode\/2up\">There and back again: in the footsteps of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a><\/em> (2004). This reflects on a series of walks, presumably made in the late-1990s \/ early 2000s, in the following places&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/tocswalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/tocswalk.jpg?w=218\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12046\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far as I know, Tolkien never visited the Lyndey excavations. But he certainly wrote the &#8220;Nodens&#8221; paper.<\/p>\n<p>* And finally, &#8220;The Magic of Middle-earth&#8221; exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chichester.gov.uk\/article\/37278\/A-journey-to-Middle-earth-comes-to-Chichesters-Novium-Museum\">is travelling to West Sussex<\/a> in 2023. The show opens at the museum in Chichester in April, and will require paid tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien Gleanings #31 * Now public, a recording of a new public lecture on YouTube &ldquo;&ldquo;I hold the key&#8221;: J.R.R. Tolkien through interviews and reminiscences&#8221;. Given by Dimitra Fimi at the University of Birmingham, in May 2022. * My unearthing of the location of C.S. Lewis&#8217;s 1936 walk near Buxton, Derbyshire, plus a small correction [&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-12044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044","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=12044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}