{"id":13221,"date":"2023-06-17T02:49:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T01:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=13221"},"modified":"2023-06-17T02:49:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T01:49:40","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/06\/17\/tolkien-gleanings-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #88"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #88.<\/p>\n

* An event on the visual adaptations of Tolkien’s works<\/a>, to be held at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Billed as a “seminar”, but looks rather substantial and taking place over three days on 27th-29th October 2023. I’m thus guessing that “seminar” has a very different meaning to Germans-using-English, compared to its use in the English-speaking world. Good to know, if that’s the case.<\/p>\n

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* “Les portes de la Terre du Milieu : La notion du seuil dans l’univers de Tolkien”<\/a> (‘The Doors of Middle-earth: the idea of the threshold in the worlds of Tolkien’). A paywalled book chapter in French, but with an English abstract. Examines… “the symbolism and the role of the door in […] The Hobbit<\/em> and The Lord of the Rings<\/em> [using three] approaches, namely the symbolic, the mythocritical, and the actancial”. The latter method is unfamiliar in English but arises from linguistic semiotics (of the early ‘sender-receiver’ type), and was influenced by attempts to systematise European folk-tales. The approach tried to boil down a quest story to its simplest parts. In plain English these might be: archetype\/hero\/actor, the quest, the helper, the enemy, the intermediary, the gift-giver or ‘receiver’ of the hero — all examined in a quasi-scientific manner in relation to the motivated actions they take in the expected narrative.<\/p>\n

* In Ad Fontes: A Journal of Protestant Letters<\/em>, and freely available online, the long “Tolkien: Naive Storyteller or Political Realist?”<\/a> (November 2022).<\/p>\n

* In the VoegelinView<\/em>, and freely available online, thoughts on “Gardening and Nobility in Tolkien”<\/a> (September 2018).<\/p>\n

* A Lewis\/Tolkien religious retreat-course in America, Poets for the Kingdom: The Sacramental Stories of Lewis and Tolkien<\/a>. Booking now for November 2023.<\/p>\n

* And finally, new on Archive.org to borrow is The Study of Names in Literature: A Bibliography<\/a><\/em> (1978).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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