{"id":12633,"date":"2023-04-15T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T13:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12633"},"modified":"2023-04-15T14:17:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T13:17:17","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/04\/15\/tolkien-gleanings-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #54"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #54.<\/p>\n

* Thanks to Sebastiano Tassinari for noting that the Renee Vink book of essays Gleanings from Tolkien\u2019s Garden<\/em> (2020) does have TOCs online. I had previously been unable to immediately find the book’s contents page, though I had found the correct Web link to order the book from Europe. It turns out that the book was detailed in a 2021 review in the Journal of Inklings Studies<\/em> Vol. 11, No. 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* My new blog post, musing on some possible influences from “Tolkien’s wartime fireworks”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The Wisdom of Hobbits: an online conference<\/a>, 29th April 2023. This $20 event listing brings news of a new book…<\/p>\n

“In this three-hour, fully-online event, Lord of the Rings<\/em> scholars join author Matthew J. Distefano to explore themes in the newly published book The Wisdom of Hobbits<\/em>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The full title is The Wisdom of Hobbits: Unearthing Our Humanity at 3 Bagshot Row<\/em> (March 2023), available in print or as an ebook. There’s a good in-depth podcast audio review<\/a> at Tolkien Lore<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I have nothing against AI images, but it’s perhaps regrettable that a book on “our humanity” uses an unretouched AI-generated image for the cover.<\/p>\n

* A new John Garth post “Making an ass of yourself, with Geoffrey Bache Smith”<\/a>, on Geoffrey Bache Smith’s sense of humour. Also a presentation slide from Garth that did not make it onto the YouTube recordings of the March 2023 conference<\/a> on Smith and Tolkien.<\/p>\n

* New in open access, Prosody in Medieval English and Norse<\/a><\/em> (2023). The Oxford University Press book attempts to… “Introduce and explain technical topics and metrical theories for the understanding of readers from a range of backgrounds”. Such things are beyond me, but some may be interested… since Tolkien was. Click “Open Access”, and then the PDF link, to get the book.<\/p>\n

* Omentielva Quainea: The International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Invented Languages<\/a> will be held in France in August 2024. Further details to be announced.<\/p>\n

* And finally, from the buzzing world of computer-code scripting languages, a new Arda Python Library<\/a> emerges…<\/p>\n

“At various times over the last ten months, I\u2019ve been quietly working on a Python library for doing various Tolkien-related calculations. The project is still in its early stages and currently just has two things. Firstly, an initial implementation of Year<\/strong> and YearDelta<\/strong> classes for dealing with Ages and the beginnings of a Shire Calendar class ShireDate<\/strong>. … Much of the initial motivation for this was wrangling data for Tolkien Timelines.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #54. * Thanks to Sebastiano Tassinari for noting that the Renee Vink book of essays Gleanings from Tolkien\u2019s Garden (2020) does have TOCs online. I had previously been unable to immediately find the book’s contents page, though I had found the correct Web link to order the book from Europe. It turns out […]<\/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-12633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633","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=12633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}