{"id":12544,"date":"2023-04-04T05:15:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T04:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12544"},"modified":"2023-04-04T05:15:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T04:15:05","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/04\/04\/tolkien-gleanings-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #49"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #49.<\/p>\n

* Newly published in the UK, the hardcover edition of the Tolkien book The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth<\/em>. The previously unpublished material here is reported to be Tolkien’s own prose translation of the Anglo-Saxon “The Battle of Maldon”, and his unpublished lecture “The Tradition of Versification in Old English” (late 1920s?).<\/p>\n

* A one-hour YouTube lecture on “J.R.R. Tolkien on Homes and Havens”<\/a> (2021). The audio is excellent. This has now become a paywalled scholarly article<\/a> of the same title, published in the new edition of Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture<\/em> (Spring 2023).<\/p>\n

* A recent Texas Tolkien Talk Podcast<\/em> discussed the recent biography The Gallant Edith Bratt<\/a><\/em> with the book’s author Nancy Bunting.<\/p>\n

* A Signum University announcement this week, Introducing “Tolkien Illustrated: Picturing the Legendarium”<\/a>. This being a trailer for a Summer 2023 online course at Signum, booking now and starting…<\/p>\n

“Monday 1st May 2023, with a one week break from 19th-23rd June for Mythmoot. […] ‘Tolkien Illustrated’ will include two 90-minute live lectures Mondays and Thursdays 10:00-11:30 AM ET (3:00-4:30 PM GMT) and one one-hour discussion session per week as assigned (four hours total weekly).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* And finally, a demo of a fragment of The Silmarillion<\/em><\/a> as read by an ElevenLabs AI-generated TTS voice. Rather pleasing and clear, considering it’s just a quick demo generated from YouTube clips of the older ‘grandpa’ Tolkien speaking to the media in the 1960s. So far as I’m aware, there’s no legal infringement. You can’t copyright the sound and accent of a voice, due to the ‘prior art’ spread among millions of previous voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #49. * Newly published in the UK, the hardcover edition of the Tolkien book The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth. The previously unpublished material here is reported to be Tolkien’s own prose translation of the Anglo-Saxon “The Battle of Maldon”, and his unpublished lecture “The Tradition of Versification in […]<\/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-12544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544","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=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}