{"id":14195,"date":"2023-09-19T09:38:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T08:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14195"},"modified":"2023-09-19T09:38:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T08:38:28","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/09\/19\/tolkien-gleanings-126\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #126"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #126.<\/p>\n

* A new PhD thesis in German for Heidelberg University, Die Konzeption von Konigtum bei J.R.R. Tolkien: zur rezeption und transformation religionshistorischer motive und religioser herrscherlegitimation in der literarischen weltkonstruktion von Middle-earth<\/a><\/em> (‘The Conception of Kingship in J.R.R. Tolkien: on the reception and transformation of motifs of the history of religion and the religious legitimisation of power in the literary world-making of Middle-earth’). Freely available and kindly placed under full Creative Commons Attribution.<\/p>\n

* A new B.A. dissertation for the University of Pardubice, “Philosophy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Arda”<\/a>. Examines… “motifs of good and evil in Tolkien’s works” via frameworks of “Manichaeism, Augustinian and Boethian approach[es] to morality, and Aristotle’s virtue ethics”. In English and freely available.<\/p>\n

* The book Translating and Illustrating Tolkien<\/a><\/em> has an official publication date, 10th October 2023. This is…<\/p>\n

“a collection of six papers presented at The Tolkien Society Autumn Seminar held online on Saturday 6th November 2021.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Italian artist groups, the Italian Association of Tolkien Studies and Eterea Edizioni, presents “Hobbits, Elves & other Folks: a Festival of the Fantastic, from folklore to fiction, by J.R.R. Tolkien”. 6th to 8th October 2023 in the capital city of Rome. With… “live music, presentations, talks, themed markets, a series of ‘fantasy and comics’ laboratories, workshops, open-air sessions of retro gaming + board and tabletop role-playing games.” Also, among other items…<\/p>\n

  – “Middle-earth Bestiary, an exhibition focused on animals in Tolkien’s works, including in later publishing, games and pop culture.” Also has creative workshops for children.<\/p>\n

  – ‘Light and Shadow: symbolism in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien’, a round-table in dialogue with the public”.<\/p>\n

  – ‘Fantastic Religions and Where to Find Them: divinities, myths and rites in science fiction and fantasy’, with the authors speaking about a Quasar Edizioni book of the same name.<\/p>\n

  – ‘Fantasy Illustration Survival Course, a workshop + illustration laboratory for publishing’ by Claudia Marrone, editorial illustrator.<\/p>\n

* In other news from Italy, confirmation of the medium-sized 150-item exhibition ‘J.R.R. Tolkien 1973-2023: Man-Professor-Author’. This opens in November 2023 at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, and is “curated by Alessandro Nicosia and Oronzo Cilli”.<\/p>\n

* And finally, the U.S. Sun<\/em> features a handyman who says “I build hobbit holes for your garden”<\/a>, for $10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #126. * A new PhD thesis in German for Heidelberg University, Die Konzeption von Konigtum bei J.R.R. Tolkien: zur rezeption und transformation religionshistorischer motive und religioser herrscherlegitimation in der literarischen weltkonstruktion von Middle-earth (‘The Conception of Kingship in J.R.R. Tolkien: on the reception and transformation of motifs of the history of religion and […]<\/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-14195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195","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=14195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}