{"id":12134,"date":"2023-01-30T09:17:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T09:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12134"},"modified":"2023-01-30T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T09:17:23","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/01\/30\/tolkien-gleanings-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #35"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #35<\/p>\n

* A new 2023 review<\/a> of An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien<\/em> (2022). “Iberian” here means both Portuguese and Spanish. The review is in German, but the page is in HTML and thus easily auto-translated. <\/p>\n

“Simonson [examines] the function of the trees on the continents of Valinor and Numenor, in which beauty and utility are combined. […] only the balance between materialism and aestheticization can guarantee a responsible approach to nature.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Call for chapters: Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons<\/em><\/a>. Relevant to Tolkien, given the formative influence<\/a> LoTR<\/em> had on Gary Gygax’s original classic D&D<\/em>. Deadline: 15th February 2023, with the chapter to be submitted by the end of the summer.<\/p>\n

* A public on-site talk titled “The Life and Thought of J.R.R. Tolkien”<\/a>, in Houston, USA. 24th April 2023. Free and booking now.<\/p>\n

“Professor Holly Ordway will provide an enriching presentation about the life and thought of J.R.R. Tolkien”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* From Country Life<\/em> magazine, rare images of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a> from 1961. Regrettably the magazine has sandwiched the online article with an unexpected auto-playing video of a mass of crawling insects. All video on the site can be perma-blocked, by pasting the following to your uBlock Origin ‘My Filters’ block-list…<\/p>\n

! https:\/\/www.countrylife.co.uk
\nwww.countrylife.co.uk##.jwplayer-margin-bottom.jwplayer-container<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or, if you want to perma-block all such nonsense in their online articles, videos or not…<\/p>\n

! https:\/\/www.countrylife.co.uk
\nwww.countrylife.co.uk##.injection<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* And finally, on the BBC this week…<\/p>\n

“Russell Kane and his guests discuss whether the writer [Tolkien] was evil or genius.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously. That’s their blurb. For BBC Radio Four. And they wonder why few pay any attention to the BBC these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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