{"id":13775,"date":"2023-08-15T23:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T22:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=13775"},"modified":"2023-08-15T23:50:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T22:50:23","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/08\/15\/tolkien-gleanings-113\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #113"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #113.<\/p>\n

* My Tolkien book Tree & Star<\/em> (2022) can now be had in paperback<\/a> from Lulu.com. It’s produced and sold via the U.S. Lulu.com store, as a standard 6″ x 9″ American ‘trade’ paperback.<\/p>\n

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* The new book J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions and the Legacy<\/em> is on Amazon UK with a shipping date of 26th September 2023. But I see it’s already available for preview on Google Books, and the final table-of-contents is thus available…<\/p>\n

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* The much-trailed ‘Fantasy Goes to Hell’<\/a> Mythopoeic Society seminar event now has downloads online. There are many to choose from, but Tolkien items of interest to me are…<\/p>\n

   – “Hellish Landscapes in J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Legendarium”<\/a>
\n   – “Tolkien goes to Hell: From the Deepest Underground to the Utmost Void”<\/a>
\n   – “Managing Hell: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien on the Infernality of Managerialism”<\/a>
\n   – Panel discussion: “Deep Places of the World: Journeys in the Underworlds of Middle-earth”<\/a><\/p>\n

* A new YouTube video on “The Lost Words of Tolkien”<\/a>. It’s a bit of a ‘quickie’ video, and please don’t imagine I’m suggesting it as a scholarly heavyweight. But it’s a nice idea to try to do explication videos for the spiflicated. I must say that even I was stumped by the word hame<\/em>, as in “Gandalf Greyhame”, originally “Gray-hame” before the final text. I find that today hame<\/em> is still in use, but only as a word for the stiff part of a fitted horse-collar. The pair of hames<\/em> are used to fit the skein of leather control-reins to a working heavy-horse. The maker of the YouTube video suggests this horse meaning in passing, but Tolkien’s source is more likely to be found in the latest Bosworth-Toller. This venerable dictionary suggests the Old English hama<\/em> (a natural covering or tough thin skin, as in a ‘shed snake-skin’) and for “Gandalf Greyhame” this implies a long cloak of natural material, possibly somewhat tattered and skein-like through much wear (“the most beggar-like…”). Hammond & Scull note the similar “Old English graeghama<\/em> ‘grey-coated'”. No source is mentioned for this, but it is in The Fight at Finnsburg<\/em> as graeg-hama<\/em>, perhaps there applied to hearing the sound of grey mail-ring battle-corslets in motion beyond the hall’s doors, via a poetic comparison to the slavering of grey-coated wolves. The word is also apparently in Gothic as hama<\/em> ‘covering, of a man’, and in Middle English meaning “coat”. I’d add that the word’s core meaning thus appears to link through to the continental Earendel cognates re: the tale of Orendel and his strange Gray Coat.<\/p>\n

* A thoughtful new blog post on “Music and Its Effects in The Hobbit”<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* And finally, dates for the German Tolkien Days 2024<\/a> when… “more than 8,000 fantasy fans gather to bring Middle-earth to life”. 24th to 26th May 2024, on the Rhine in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #113. * My Tolkien book Tree & Star (2022) can now be had in paperback from Lulu.com. It’s produced and sold via the U.S. Lulu.com store, as a standard 6″ x 9″ American ‘trade’ paperback. * The new book J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Context, Directions and the Legacy is on Amazon UK […]<\/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-13775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775","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=13775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}