{"id":12803,"date":"2023-05-05T00:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12803"},"modified":"2023-05-05T00:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:24:13","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/05\/05\/tolkien-gleanings-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #62"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #62.<\/p>\n

* A new Masters dissertation for Belmont University, “Tolkien’s Legendarium: An Answer to the Eternal Question of Why Warfighters Engage in Armed Conflict”<\/a> (2023). The author… “examines how Tolkien drew upon Northern Courage, Ofermod<\/em>, Comitatus<\/em>, and \u00der\u00e6ll<\/em> to illustrate armed conflict in his Legendarium”. The PDF is freely available.<\/p>\n

* The next issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research<\/em> has begun posting articles. Vol. 16, Issue 1<\/a> opens with thoughts on how “The Wanderer” might have drawn on both Gothic and Classical influences. Specifically, a warrior-culture’s desire for… “a Germanic equivalent of Alexander the Great”.<\/p>\n

* I see that Amon Hen<\/em> has shipped issues to members, for February and April 2023. The latter being the big issue #300, with “seven articles” according to one blogging recipient. Table of contents? Nope, it seems not. Regrettably Tolkien Gateway’<\/em>s ToCs are very patchy and the most recent is April 2022. The last issue with ToCs at the Tolkien Collector’s Guide<\/em> is #206, which was about 12 years ago now.<\/p>\n

* Below is “Anton’s plan of Barnt Green”, rescued from a local article that vanished in 2011. Note “The Hollow Oak Tree” on the edge of the village, in a map from a resident recalling the village he had known as a boy in the 1940s. Admittedly that was some 30 years after Tolkien was there, but big oaks take thing slowly. The map can be tallied with a 1926 air photo<\/a> and Tolkien’s painting of the still un-located “The Cottage”. If one were to get the very high-res version (feel free, I can’t afford it and ‘Britain from Above’ is a pain to buy from) then one could fully tally it against the roof shape and the distinctive windows and end-row location. Most of the other houses in the village look like they have roofs and windows unlike those seen in Tolkien’s painting. So it would be a process of elimination, also guided by Anton’s map. Anton lived at the “Grey Cottage”.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, advanced Swedish school “students investigated whether the dragon Smaug can fly”<\/a>. ‘Maybe’ seems to be the answer from their wind-tunnel tests. But only very fast, and very badly. Ah… but did they take account of his intense heat and the consequent thermal up-drafts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #62. * A new Masters dissertation for Belmont University, “Tolkien’s Legendarium: An Answer to the Eternal Question of Why Warfighters Engage in Armed Conflict” (2023). The author… “examines how Tolkien drew upon Northern Courage, Ofermod, Comitatus, and \u00der\u00e6ll to illustrate armed conflict in his Legendarium”. The PDF is freely available. * The next […]<\/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-12803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803","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=12803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}