{"id":12551,"date":"2023-04-04T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12551"},"modified":"2023-04-04T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:02:00","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/04\/04\/tolkien-gleanings-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #50"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a><\/em> #50.<\/p>\n

* Forthcoming is a new scholarly book from Kent State University Press, titled Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many<\/em>. Due toward the end of 2023, with Amazon UK currently offering a shipping-date perilously close to Christmas, “12th December”. The publisher’s blurb has the book as a…<\/p>\n

remarkable work of close reading and analysis, Thomas P. Hillman gets to the heart of the tension between pity and the desire for power in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. As the book traces the entangled story of the One Ring and its effects, we come to understand Tolkien’s central paradox: while pity is necessary for destroying the Ring, it cannot save the Ring-bearer from the Ring’s lies and corruption. […] Instead of turning his interpretation to allegory or apologetics, Hillman demonstrates how the story works metaphorically, allowing Tolkien to embrace both Catholic views and pagan mythology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Also forthcoming later in 2023, a new graphic novel about the young Tolkien, provisionally titled Tolkien: Lighting Up The Darkness<\/em>. That title may change before publication, since the Estate would appear to have a clear case of trademark infringement regarding the front-cover’s sizing, styling and colour of ‘Tolkien’… <\/p>\n

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The book lists as “112 pages”, so it’s not the sort of chunky 240-page graphic novel that an English reader might expect. Indeed, those 112 pages are probably padded, since I see the French site Tolkiendil<\/em> mentions “82 pages” of actual story. Which suggests it’s a French BD. Yes, turns out that it’s an English translation of a BD already available in French, Tolkien: Eclairer les Tenebres<\/em> (2019), and in Italian as Tolkien: Rischiarare le Tenebre<\/em> (2021). A Tolkiendil<\/em> review picked up some small factual errors<\/a>, but was generally positive. The interior art looks excellent.<\/p>\n

* The new French fannish magazine Generation Cites d’Or<\/a><\/em> #10 (2023) is a “Tolkien Special”, with articles.<\/p>\n

* And finally, in May 2023 Canada’s Maple Moot<\/a> will happen in Toronto, taking the theme of ‘Northern Spirit’…<\/p>\n

“an ancient virtue […] we will explore the meaning of Northern Spirit, its thematic influence in Tolkien\u2019s legendarium, and its origins in fantasy and literature.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #50. * Forthcoming is a new scholarly book from Kent State University Press, titled Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many. Due toward the end of 2023, with Amazon UK currently offering a shipping-date perilously close to Christmas, “12th December”. The publisher’s blurb has the book as a… remarkable […]<\/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-12551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12551","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=12551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}