{"id":12678,"date":"2023-04-19T14:13:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12678"},"modified":"2023-04-19T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:13:32","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/04\/19\/tolkien-gleanings-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #57"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #57.<\/p>\n

* News of a new book, Myth, Magic, and Power in Tolkien\u2019s Middle-earth: Developing a Model for Understanding Power and Leadership<\/em>. Set for release in mid July 2023, with a hefty \u00a365 price tag for what is a 120-page book. But it does appear to be a serious study of “the social power dynamics at work” in human leadership actions. With all examples drawn from The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* An 11th April 2023 call from the organiser of the Tolkien Studies Area<\/a> of the enormous Popular Culture Association Conference (27th-30th March 2024, Chicago). Not a call for that Easter 2024 conference, but rather for a possible event (presumably for Tolkien scholars) beyond that<\/a> in the summer…<\/p>\n

“I am chairing an Exploratory Committee to gather information for the Board on what we would need to do to run a Virtual Conference during summer 2024. If you are interested in attending such a conference, or working with [us] on the project, please let me know.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Advance news of two books set for 2024<\/a>, from the same author. Just the titles and publishers, at present. Tolkien’s House of Being<\/em> from Kent State University Press, and The Herdsman of Light: Tolkien and the Mystical Theology of Anglo-Saxon Poetry<\/em> from Darkly Bright Press.<\/p>\n

* On Archive.org, four new scans of the journal Anglia: Zeitschrift fur Englische Philologie<\/a><\/em>. Being the issues for 1926-28, including a 1928 review of Tolkien & Gordon’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em> glossary. Also new, five scans of The Journal of English and Germanic Philology<\/a><\/em> for 1923-27, with 1927 having a review of Tolkien & Gordon’s Gawain<\/em>. Further note 1923’s article “The Tradition of Angelic Singing in English Drama”, which Tolkien would likely have noticed.<\/p>\n

* And finally, Tolkien’s legacy has helped to revive the making of tapestry wall-hangings in central France. Today Japan Today<\/em> reports<\/a> on the “small town of Aubusson in central France” which has “a tapestry-making tradition that stretches back to the 15th century”. In 2017 they “engaged in a collaborative project to create tapestries based on Tolkien”. This led to “an agreement with Studio Ghibli in 2019 to create five works based on Miyazaki films.” They’ve recently unveilved a giant Spirited Away<\/em> tapestry. On the back of their Tolkien and Miyazaki work they have had a surge of “applicants to the centre’s artisan training program”.<\/p>\n

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