{"id":12644,"date":"2023-04-17T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12644"},"modified":"2023-04-17T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:04:52","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/04\/17\/tolkien-gleanings-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #55"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #55.<\/p>\n

* A new Tolkien Lore<\/em> podcast examines a little-considered but important matter, “The Main Character of The Lord of the Rings<\/em> Is… Middle-earth”<\/a>. In 23 minutes (start at 4:20 if you’re short of time) the listener enjoys a cogent and well-delivered survey. I can add a little historical context. Tolkien would have been aware of English folk-anthropomorphism (i.e. the ‘body-scape’) of hills, such as that hinted at in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em>. Where memorably, on the icy track toward Wetton, “Each hill had a hat” of cold mist. My recent book on Gawain<\/em> and Staffordshire newly discovered a folk-use from the very same district… “[in] the phraseology of the place, the ‘mountain had its cap on.'” — this being published prior to the first publication of Sir Gawain<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* A listing for an evening billed as a conference on Tolkien and the Sciences<\/a>, to be held at Terra Botanica in the university city of Angers in north-west France, with free tickets<\/a>…<\/p>\n

On 12th May 2013, Terra Botanica welcomes renowned paleontologist Jean-Sebastien Steyer, co-editor of the book Tolkien et les Sciences<\/a> (‘Tolkien and the Sciences’, 2019).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The listing alerts me to this relatively recent 400-page book in French. It offers edited contributions from 38 experts in various fields of science, plus economics and psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n

* Consulting Philologist<\/em> has a new and long blog-post which forms an “Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics and Culture Textbooks for the Perplexed”<\/a>… <\/p>\n

“What I have tried to do here is point out the best textbooks to start with for absolute beginners, as well as some other useful textbooks, manuals, and reference works”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* And finally, I’ve only just spotted that Evan Palmer has released his Tolkien’s Ainulindale<\/a><\/em> (2017) hand-made comic in 54 pages, and he freely posts the scans online. Rather pleasing, and I’d suggest even quite suitable for children in middle-childhood. He posts a link to his interview about the work, to be found on the Talking Tolkien Podcast<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien Gleanings #55. * A new Tolkien Lore podcast examines a little-considered but important matter, “The Main Character of The Lord of the Rings Is… Middle-earth”. In 23 minutes (start at 4:20 if you’re short of time) the listener enjoys a cogent and well-delivered survey. I can add a little historical context. Tolkien would have […]<\/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-12644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644","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=12644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}