{"id":13370,"date":"2023-06-27T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T08:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=13370"},"modified":"2023-06-27T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T08:17:38","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/06\/27\/tolkien-gleanings-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #95"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #95.<\/p>\n

* “Clambering Hobbits and Marching Soldiers: Finnish and English Translations of Manner of Motion in Tolkien’s The Hobbit or There and Back Again<\/em> and
\nLinna’s Tuntematon Sotilas<\/em>“<\/a> (2023). A Masters dissertation in English for the University of Eastern Finland. Some may may not be too interested in the tumbling and back-flips involved in translation work, but the extraction of all the motion-words from The Hobbit<\/em> could be a useful time-saver for those writing about motion\/ walking \/ distances. Has extensive colour-coded tables at the back.<\/p>\n

* New to me, and uploaded to Archive.org last April, Tolkien and Gordon’s Songs for the Philologists<\/a><\/em> in a 2007 OCR edition with Tolkien’s contributions starred. Has a different version of Sam’s “A Bump o’ the Boot” troll song, than that given in The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. Tom Shippey has expert translations of four of the more personal poems by Tolkien, to be found in the back of his book The Road to Middle Earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* New in Spiked!<\/em>, “Collecting old books is now a radical act”<\/a>, an article on recent book censorship. So far as I’m aware, there have only been two such instances affecting Tolkien’s text. Tolkien’s own early removal from The Hobbit<\/em> of a reference to Bilbo seeing “a tinker” (i.e. itinerant, nomadic hobbit, of a type elsewhere mentioned) ambling by when the dwarves were making their way out of the Shire. And Elrond’s use of “lesser men” at the Council of Elrond in LoTR<\/em> never made it to Christopher Tolkien’s Silmarillion<\/em>: while LoTR<\/em> had “the blood of the Numenoreans became mingled with that of lesser men.”, the Silmarillion<\/em> had “For the blood of the Numenoreans became much mingled with that of other men”. Those are the only instances I know of.<\/p>\n

* Now freely available online “Middle America Meets Middle-earth: American Publication and Discussion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings<\/em>, 1954-1969”<\/a> (2003). Described as a Masters degree “paper”, for the School of Information at the University of North Carolina.<\/p>\n

* The Urbana Theological Seminary’s Tolkien Conference<\/a>. I see there have been six conferences so far, the last in 2022. There are some videos online for 2021<\/a> and there’s a new 50-minute podcast interview<\/a> (June 2023) with the main conference organiser.<\/p>\n

* And finally, the unfinished teenage novel “The Quest of Bleheris”<\/a> by C.S. Lewis… “In 2021, Inklings scholar Don W. King was able to provide a full transcription of “The Quest of Bleheris” in Sehnsucht<\/em> journal. Recently, Sehnsucht<\/em> has become an open-access journal.” It’s thus freely available. His youthful attempt at a novel was an Arthurian romance in the William Morris style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #95. * “Clambering Hobbits and Marching Soldiers: Finnish and English Translations of Manner of Motion in Tolkien’s The Hobbit or There and Back Again and Linna’s Tuntematon Sotilas“ (2023). A Masters dissertation in English for the University of Eastern Finland. Some may may not be too interested in the tumbling and back-flips involved […]<\/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-13370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13370","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=13370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}