{"id":12598,"date":"2023-04-14T04:51:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T03:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12598"},"modified":"2023-04-14T04:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T03:51:03","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/04\/14\/tolkien-gleanings-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #53"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #53.<\/p>\n

* Available now, a new edition of the open scholarly journal Mythlore<\/em>, Vol. 41, No. 2<\/a> (Spring\/Summer 2023). A half-dozen or so articles are of Tolkien interest, including “Delving Too Greedily: Analyzing Prejudice Against Tolkien’s Dwarves as Historical Bias” (asks if his dwarves were really antagonistic to and destructive of nature, as is often casually assumed). Also a short article by Verlyn Flieger in pursuit of a possible trace of wartime code-breaking in Tolkien, and another book-review for The Gallant Edith Bratt<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* Book publisher Walking Tree has a large round-up of recent reviews of their books, although the Web links are spread across multiple posts. Start at the publisher’s 31st March<\/a> post and then move forward (i.e. click on each “Newer items” link), downloading the most interesting PDFs as you go.<\/p>\n

* Various multi-paper Tolkien sessions are scheduled for the giant International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University<\/a>, 11th-13th May 2023. Including: “Religion along the Tolkienian Fantasy Tradition: New Medievalist Narrative”; “Tolkien and the Middle Ages: Tolkien and the Scholastics”; and “Christopher Tolkien: Medievalist Editor of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Legendarium I: The Works” followed by “II: The Interactions”. The papers are not (yet) online, but the titles are…<\/p>\n

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* A new one-hour YouTube recording of a lecture on “Hope Beyond the Walls of the World: J.R.R. Tolkien and Christian Virtue”<\/a>, given this Easter at Bethlehem College and Seminary, Minneapolis, USA. High-quality audio, of a good clear speaker.<\/p>\n

* Thanks to Sebastiano Tassinari, who drew my attention to the fact that the “70 years since J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sir Gawain<\/em> lecture in Glasgow”<\/a> event now has tickets available on Eventbrite. The date is 27th April 2023.<\/p>\n

* And finally, the blog Tolkien: Medieval and Modern<\/em> has a new post on the current thinking on the history of ancient Welsh and English<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“the archaeological community until fairly recently [thought] that the Anglo-Saxon invasions were overblown and that the English had a large amount of Briton in them. But a very recent genetic study of Anglo-Saxon graves (Gretzinger, Sayer, Justeau et al, 2022) proved that they indeed had overwhelmingly Germanic heritage.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This seems to me to be over-claiming for this new study of ancient DNA. What the research actually found was that… <\/p>\n

“the individuals who we analysed from eastern England [i.e. mostly what were then the fenlands and coastlands] derived up to 76% of their ancestry from the [adjacent] continental North Sea zone, albeit with substantial regional variation and heterogeneity within sites”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many were women. Thus it’s open to question if some of these were descendants of women brought from overseas as ‘old country’ brides for the new settlers of eastern England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #53. * Available now, a new edition of the open scholarly journal Mythlore, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Spring\/Summer 2023). A half-dozen or so articles are of Tolkien interest, including “Delving Too Greedily: Analyzing Prejudice Against Tolkien’s Dwarves as Historical Bias” (asks if his dwarves were really antagonistic to and destructive of nature, as […]<\/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-12598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598","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=12598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}