{"id":12125,"date":"2023-01-28T16:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12125"},"modified":"2023-01-28T16:35:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T16:35:57","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/01\/28\/tolkien-gleanings-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #34"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #34<\/p>\n

* An update on Signum University Press<\/a>. The Press is barely six months old, but now has a firm slate for 2023 and beyond. In Tolkien studies there’s news of the book Cardinal Vices of Middle-earth<\/a><\/em> (September 2023), a new “comparative analysis of the role of chosen vices and virtues” from a Catholic perspective; and “An interview series with Verlyn Flieger”.<\/p>\n

* A casting-call for Fellowship: Tolkien & Lewis<\/a><\/em>… “an upcoming limited [screen] series, based on the friendship, faith, and fantasy of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.” Filming in London in early spring 2023, and the call has a rather tight deadline. Why do such projects\/jobs always seem to have a ‘rush-rush’ deadline of days, rather than at least a month or so?<\/p>\n

* Wheaton University now has its list of summer school 2023 courses<\/a>. Includes “The Makings of Middle Earth: Creation, Creativity, and J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Lord of the Rings<\/em>“, and the “Otherworlds of Imagination in C.S. Lewis”. Seems to be aimed at regional students who want a long taster of what the university can offer. I had to look up “Wheaton, IL”, and it turns out that this well-known university is on the edge of the city of Chicago.<\/p>\n

* Issue 2 of my Tolkien Gleanings<\/em> as a PDF magazine<\/a>, now available for download.<\/p>\n

* And finally, oh dear… more PR piffle for bamboozled tourists from the city of Birmingham<\/a>. The Birmingham University tower… “is famously believed to have been the inspiration for the tower of Orthanc, the black tower of Isengard”. Will the city ever learn that there’s a really moving true<\/em> story to tell about Tolkien and Birmingham? They don’t have to make it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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