{"id":14036,"date":"2023-09-07T04:58:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T03:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14036"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:58:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T03:58:28","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/09\/07\/tolkien-gleanings-121\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #121"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #121.<\/p>\n

* A new talk in London this weekend, Holly Ordway on “Beauty and Sorrow: Tolkien’s journey of faith”<\/a>. At St. Mary’s Church, Sunday 10th September 2023. Her publisher Word on Fire has also just released a new and highly-polished official one minute trailer<\/a> for Ordway’s acclaimed new book, Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* In October, Ordway is in Houston with a talk on “Tolkien\u2019s Faith and the Foundations of Middle Earth”<\/a>, 2nd October 2023. Free and booking now.<\/p>\n

* The first review<\/a> I’ve seen of the recent book Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: What Middle-earth means to us today<\/em> (2023). The reviewer finds it “a long wearying slog” and “a read that is about as compelling as a phone book”. Not to be confused with the academic collection Tolkien in the 21st Century: Reading, Reception, and Reinterpretation<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n

* A new long and very informed article on “J.R.R. Tolkien on Philosophical Anarchism”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* News of a new book, Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959<\/a><\/em>. From Oxford University Press and apparently containing everything Tolkien ever published or said about Chaucer. Including his translation of the Reeve’s Tale<\/em>, which is said to be as yet unpublished. The OUP issued a contract for the book in 2021, and the French Tolkendil<\/em> forum suggests publication toward the end of April 2024. Amazon UK is pre-ordering, but currently has no shipping date.<\/p>\n

* And finally… this week’s TLS<\/em> comments, on the week’s literary news and very much in passing, that…<\/p>\n

“[it is] fifty years since Anthony Burgess declared in the TLS [in 1973] that “The Hesse cult continues, though the Tolkien one seems to be at an end\u201d, getting it exactly the wrong way round.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thus back-handedly implying that the TLS<\/em> even now thinks that the attention paid to Tolkien is due to a ‘cult’. Judging by their lack of coverage, Tolkien is not high on their book-reviewer Wish List. Also, pushing the idea of a “cult” aligns with a small group of TV-oriented fans who try to label and dismiss the majority of Tolkien fans as “an intolerant cult”.<\/p>\n

The Hesse referred to above was the now little-read German writer Herman Hesse, not to be confused with Hess the captured Nazi leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #121. * A new talk in London this weekend, Holly Ordway on “Beauty and Sorrow: Tolkien’s journey of faith”. At St. Mary’s Church, Sunday 10th September 2023. Her publisher Word on Fire has also just released a new and highly-polished official one minute trailer for Ordway’s acclaimed new book, Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual […]<\/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-14036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036","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=14036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}