{"id":12068,"date":"2023-01-23T17:50:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12068"},"modified":"2023-01-23T17:50:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:50:46","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/01\/23\/tolkien-gleanings-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #32"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #32<\/p>\n

* In the Canadian undergraduate journal Explorations<\/em>, the new essay “The Birth of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Love-Child Culture in The Two Towers<\/em>“<\/a>. An off-putting title, but it turns out to be a detailed and worthy essay on the insular and self-governing nature of the Rohirrim. It has kindly been placed under full Creative Commons. There’s a mistake to watch out for, though. Helm’s Deep was not the work of Rohan, as LoTR<\/em> states… “Men [of Rohan] said that in the far-off days of the glory of Gondor the sea-kings had built here this fastness with the hands of giants.” <\/p>\n

* At the Fantastic Metropolis<\/em> blog I found a nice copy of “The Realms of Tolkien”<\/a>. This being a late interview printed in the British science-fiction magazine New Worlds<\/em> (Vol. 50, No. 168, November 1966), an issue not yet on Archive.org. In the interview Tolkien elaborates a little on Queen Beruthiel and her cats, among other topics.<\/p>\n

* Libraries and Books in Medieval England<\/a><\/em> is a new book due in April 2023. It promises to be a manageable survey of the topic in 192 pages, from an eminent authority with all the latest research at his fingertips.<\/p>\n

* Due in a few weeks, the academic book J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics<\/a><\/em> (February 2023), on the still-hot academic topic of utopianising tendencies in literature. Here ‘Classics’ means ‘the ancient world and our inheritance from it’. The blurb sounded quite interesting, until I read the names of the usual suspects… Plato, Homer, Ovid. The contents are…<\/p>\n

Introduction: Utopianism and Classicism: Tolkien’s New\/Old Continent.<\/p>\n

1. Lapsarian Narratives: The Decline and Fall of Utopian Communities in Middle-Earth.
\n2. Hospitality Narratives: The Ideal of the Home in an Odyssean Hobbit.
\n3. Sublime Narratives: Classical Transcendence in Nature and Beyond in The Fellowship of the Ring.<\/p>\n

Epilogue<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The book follows last year’s theologically-informed Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien\u2019s Legendarium<\/em> (February 2022) by a different author, which had a chapter that surveyed… “elements of anarchism, distributionism, and Toryism in Tolkien\u2019s political philosophy”.<\/p>\n

* And finally, a newly discovered pithy marginal note from Christopher Tolkien<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“What’s the point of all this pedantry if you can’t get a detail like this right?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #32 * In the Canadian undergraduate journal Explorations, the new essay “The Birth of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Love-Child Culture in The Two Towers“. An off-putting title, but it turns out to be a detailed and worthy essay on the insular and self-governing nature of the Rohirrim. It has kindly been placed under full Creative […]<\/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-12068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068","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=12068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}