{"id":12849,"date":"2023-05-11T21:47:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12849"},"modified":"2023-05-11T21:47:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T20:47:18","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/05\/11\/tolkien-gleanings-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #65"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #65.<\/p>\n

* A new open-access article by the technologies librarian at Marquette University, “Anduin: Transforming manuscripts from The Lord of the Rings<\/em> into a digital experience”<\/a> (2023). Incidentally I see the word is claimed as a trademark of Middle-earth Enterprises. But surely there is ‘prior art’ on this? It was long the name used to refer to one of the key Lombard kings, as Anduin (526-572 A.D.). It can be found thus in English as early as Procopius, The History of the Warres of the Emperor Justinian<\/em> (1653)…<\/p>\n

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… through 1811, the 1857 in the Jahrbuch fur Deutsche Sprache, Litteratur<\/em> (‘Yearbook for German Language and Literature’), and the 1928 Harvard ‘Loeb’ Classics edition of Procopius in his History of the Wars (Gothic War)<\/em>. Today known to modern historians as King Alboin.<\/p>\n

* Leading Tolkien scholar Michael Drout has revealed that… “W.W. Norton will be publishing The Tower and the Ruin<\/em>, my book on J.R.R. Tolkien, in spring 2024″. The title presumably relates to Tolkien’s parable of the tower, given in his The Monsters and the Critics<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* Publisher Taylor & Francis has released a date and table of contents<\/a> for the forthcoming book J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions, and the Legacy<\/em>. The planned publication date is set for 29th September 2023, and the chapters cover receptions of Tolkien translations in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and perhaps more — though other nations and peoples are not stated in the blurb or TOCs.<\/p>\n

* Details of what sounds like an event on Tolkien and translation<\/a>, in Italy on 27th May 2023… “The event, organised to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien, is part of a series of events to celebrate the author of The Lord of the Rings”<\/em>. I also see in a press release that the forthcoming Turin Book Fair has a talk about “a national campaign” happening in Italian schools, to do with the same 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n

* The German fan magazine Flammifer von Westernis<\/a><\/em> #68 (April 2023) has been published. My translation of the TOCs suggests that among other items it has an interview with Brian Sibley, an article on Tolkien and Switzerland, and a review of the book The Science of Middle-earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* And finally, in the latest Journal of Scottish Thought<\/em>, “The Angel Creatures of George MacDonald’s Phantastes”<\/em><\/a>. This issue is a special on MacDonald and also has an article on “The Literary and Theological Otherworlds in MacDonald’s Fairy Tales”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #65. * A new open-access article by the technologies librarian at Marquette University, “Anduin: Transforming manuscripts from The Lord of the Rings into a digital experience” (2023). Incidentally I see the word is claimed as a trademark of Middle-earth Enterprises. But surely there is ‘prior art’ on this? It was long the name […]<\/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-12849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849","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=12849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}