{"id":13752,"date":"2023-08-13T14:35:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T13:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=13752"},"modified":"2023-08-13T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T13:35:43","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/08\/13\/tolkien-gleanings-112\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #112"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #112.<\/p>\n

* New on Archive.org, Tolkien’s “English and Welsh” seen in its original context, along with other lectures. As the volume Angles and Britons: O’Donnell Lectures<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n

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* A new second edition of The Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature<\/em> (June 2023), though sadly aimed at university libraries and thus a whopping \u00a3150 for some 590 pages. Surely there would be more profit in making it a mass-market \u00a330 title, given the thousands of fans who would buy it VS. a few hundred university libraries? Now the fans will just pirate it instead, whereas they might have ordered a paper edition. Anyway, it has…<\/p>\n

“a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and cross-referenced entries on more than 800 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum. More than 200 other entries describe the fantasy sub-genres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No reference is made in the blurb to the venerable Brian Stableford’s Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature<\/em> (2005), but it seems possible the new book is a second expanded edition of his work under a new editor. Since I can find no first edition credited to the second edition’s author.<\/p>\n

* The Oxford Tolkien 50 event’s website has some details of the forthcoming small exhibitions at the University of Oxford Tolkien at Exeter College<\/a> and Tolkien at Merton: Fellowship and Friendship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* In France, the Tolkiendil society has a scholarly event<\/a> to… “celebrate the 50 years of the first French translation of the Lord of the Rings”. In French, but one talk appears to be in English as “Rings of Smoke: Pipe-weed, Pipes, and Smoking Imaginary in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Narrative”. I’d hope to see this on YouTube later in the year. The event is set for 6th-8th October 2023. I see there’s also a re-issue of the French edition of the Carpenter biography, Tolkien: une biographie<\/em>, due in September 2023.<\/p>\n

* The proceedings of the Tolkien Society Autumn Seminar are on YouTube<\/a> as video, uploaded in July 2023. Due in book form in October 2023, with the title Translating and Illustrating Tolkien<\/em> (Peter Roe Series XXIII). Not yet on Amazon UK.<\/p>\n

* Signum University’s Australian OzMoot<\/a>, set for 26th-28th January 2024. ‘Above All Shadows: Tolkien and Uncertain Futures’ will be on the theme of Tolkien’s depictions of hope in the face of future uncertainty.<\/p>\n

* Coming soon to the former mill-town of Barnsley in northern England, the touring Middle-earth exhibition<\/a>. This time it will be free. Barnsley is about ten miles south of Leeds, and thus a visit to the show might be combined with a Tolkien-oriented visit to Leeds. Local walker Chris Tye has a Tolkien’s ‘walk to work’ route<\/a> at Leeds.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, the Catholic Irish writer Rosa Mulholland’s vivid children’s fantasy The Walking Trees<\/a><\/em>, now freely available in PDF. This is not the later handsome illustrated edition, which is utterly available except physically in a few Irish libraries. This version has been assembled from the original magazine serial. It has some Tolkien-like moments. Walking, talking trees. Flying on the back of an eagle. It ends rather abruptly, but perhaps the book editions gave it a better ending? Anyway, enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #112. * New on Archive.org, Tolkien’s “English and Welsh” seen in its original context, along with other lectures. As the volume Angles and Britons: O’Donnell Lectures. * A new second edition of The Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature (June 2023), though sadly aimed at university libraries and thus a whopping \u00a3150 for some […]<\/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-13752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13752","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=13752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}