{"id":13033,"date":"2023-06-01T01:39:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=13033"},"modified":"2023-06-01T01:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:39:13","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/06\/01\/tolkien-gleanings-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/category\/tolkien-gleanings\/\">Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #77.<\/p>\n<p>* New and free in <em>Hektoen: Journal of the Medical Humanities<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hekint.org\/2023\/05\/30\/the-medical-inkling-r-e-havard-c-s-lewis-and-j-r-r-tolkien\/\">&#8220;The Medical Inkling: R.E. Havard, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien&#8221;<\/a>. On Tolkien&#8217;s doctor, who was also an Inkling&#8230;. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Lewis quickly introduced Havard to Tolkien, who also became one of Havard\u2019s closest friends &mdash; and patients. In praising his medical acumen, Tolkien contrasted Havard with physicians who were &#8220;mere &#8216;doctors&#8217; [and] tinkerers with machinery&#8221;&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* <em>The Legendarium Podcast<\/em> hits #400 (congratulations). The episode is a new 50-minute interview with the author of the book <em>Tolkien Dogmatics<\/em> (2022), discussing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.listennotes.com\/podcasts\/the-legendarium\/400-jrr-tolkiens-theology-im2Uy_E3s4h\/\">&#8220;J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s Theology&#8221;<\/a>. This is a different interview to the one I linked in <em>Gleanings<\/em> #72.<\/p>\n<p>* In <em>The Stanford Review<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/decline-without-fall-tolkien-and-the-long-defeat\/\">&#8220;Decline Without Fall: Tolkien and the Long Defeat&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* In <em>The Imaginative Conservative<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/theimaginativeconservative.org\/2023\/05\/faith-fantasy-chesterton-tolkien-lewis-rowling-other-tellers-tall-tales-joseph-pearce.html\">&#8220;Faith &amp; Fantasy: Chesterton, Tolkien, Lewis, Rowling &amp; Other Tellers of Tall Tales&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Open access in the latest <em>ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews<\/em>, a short note on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/0895769X.2023.2209862\">&#8220;The Relevance of Rivendell&#8217;s Growing Cultural Value from <em>The Hobbit<\/em> to <em>The Lord of the Rings&#8221;<\/em><\/a>. Don&#8217;t overlook the additional comments in the Notes.<\/p>\n<p>* And finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/steadyhq.com\/en\/john-garth-on-tolkiens-life-and-works\/about\">help fund John Garth&#8217;s work on Tolkien<\/a>. He&#8217;s using a crowdfunder service that&#8217;s new to me, <a href=\"https:\/\/steadyhq.com\/en\">Steady HQ<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien Gleanings #77. * New and free in Hektoen: Journal of the Medical Humanities, &#8220;The Medical Inkling: R.E. Havard, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien&#8221;. On Tolkien&#8217;s doctor, who was also an Inkling&#8230;. &#8220;Lewis quickly introduced Havard to Tolkien, who also became one of Havard\u2019s closest friends &mdash; and patients. In praising his medical acumen, Tolkien [&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-13033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033","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=13033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}