{"id":12968,"date":"2023-05-24T02:07:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T01:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12968"},"modified":"2023-05-24T02:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T01:07:44","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/05\/24\/tolkien-gleanings-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/category\/tolkien-gleanings\/\">Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #71.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3HSsr7PoEIw\">J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;On Fairy-Stories&#8221; (unabridged)<\/a>, as an audiobook reading of over two hours, from Catholic Culture Audiobooks. Currently free on YouTube, with a date of March 2023. Hat-tip for the news to <a href=\"https:\/\/notionclubpapers.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/tolkiens-on-fairy-stories-audiobook.html\">Bruce Charlton<\/a> who comments&#8230; &#8220;The superb performance is by [American] voice-actor James W. Majewski; who really seems to understand what he is reading, so that it is expounded with great clarity.&#8221; The voice is relatively neutral and soft, and at a guess is perhaps a New England accent?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/onf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/onf.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12969\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* A May 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1K4mlLqhGFc\">YouTube interview with Peter Grybauskas<\/a> about <em>The Battle of Maldon<\/em> by J.R.R. Tolkien. Starts at 3:23.<\/p>\n<p>* The March issue of the <em>University Bookman<\/em> had a scholarly and critical review of the new book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/kirkcenter.org\/reviews\/the-war-for-the-second-age\/\">The Fall of Numenor<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>* This month&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/essentialcslewis.com\/2023\/05\/13\/latest-on-lewis-may-2023-update\/\">Essential C.S. Lewis<\/a><\/em> round-up brings news that <em><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.georgefox.edu\/cslewisjournal\/\">Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal<\/a><\/em> is now open access and has a new university repository URL. This long-running scholarly journal has a pony-load of Tolkien content, as you might expect, mostly to be found in the reviews.<\/p>\n<p>* And finally, a two-hour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordplayhouse.com\/events\/the-hobbit\">stage version of <em>The Hobbit<\/em><\/a>, at the Oxford Playhouse at the end of June 2023. It seems to be a local youth production, judging by the rehearsal pictures. Booking now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien Gleanings #71. * J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;On Fairy-Stories&#8221; (unabridged), as an audiobook reading of over two hours, from Catholic Culture Audiobooks. Currently free on YouTube, with a date of March 2023. Hat-tip for the news to Bruce Charlton who comments&#8230; &#8220;The superb performance is by [American] voice-actor James W. Majewski; who really seems to understand [&hellip;]<\/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-12968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968","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=12968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}