{"id":13304,"date":"2023-06-23T06:43:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T05:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=13304"},"modified":"2023-06-23T06:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T05:43:58","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/06\/23\/tolkien-gleanings-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #93"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #93.<\/p>\n

* ‘Collecting Tolkien: A History of a Tolkien Obsession’<\/a>, a talk at Brighton library (at Rochester, near Buffalo and Toronto)… <\/p>\n

“Tolkien enthusiast Georg Nadorff will describe … four decades of book collecting, encompassing tens of thousands of individual volumes and items.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The talk has been and gone (22nd June) but university collections staff may be interested in making contact, and perhaps there’s also a recording of the talk available?<\/p>\n

* I wonder if Mr. Nadorff has this one? New on Archive.org to borrow, the book What’s the name, please? A guide to the correct pronunciation of current prominent names<\/a><\/em> (1936)…<\/p>\n

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Presumably had via, and quoting, a letter from Tolkien himself.<\/p>\n

* A new blog post on “Tolkien the Realist”<\/a> in relation to Romanticism. Being a response to a recent interview… “In a recent interview in The Bookmonger<\/em> [the podcast<\/a>] by John J. Miller of the National Review<\/em>, Carol Zeleski describes the Inklings as “the last of the Romantics.” In the case of J.R.R. Tolkien, I could not disagree more.”<\/p>\n

* Open-access in the new 2023 edition of British and American Studies<\/a><\/em> (Romania), “Negotiating Meaning in The Translation of Riddles in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* And finally, a new blog post in Wormwoodiana<\/em>, “Those Were the Days of the Comet”<\/a> suggests why the birth of fantasy and science-fiction was accompanied — or in some cases perhaps spurred by — bright comets in the sky…<\/p>\n

“One explanation offered for the sequence of spectacular comets during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is that a perturbation of the Oort Cloud, out on the boundary of interstellar space, caused them to be jolted from their remote orbits and sent curving inwards towards the Sun on millennia-long parabolic paths.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those who have read my new book Tree & Star<\/em> will know that the birth of the Legendarium was accompanied by such a naked-eye \/ day-visible comet over England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #93. * ‘Collecting Tolkien: A History of a Tolkien Obsession’, a talk at Brighton library (at Rochester, near Buffalo and Toronto)… “Tolkien enthusiast Georg Nadorff will describe … four decades of book collecting, encompassing tens of thousands of individual volumes and items.” The talk has been and gone (22nd June) but university collections […]<\/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-13304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304","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=13304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}