{"id":14365,"date":"2023-10-08T19:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T18:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14365"},"modified":"2023-10-08T19:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T18:25:33","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/10\/08\/tolkien-gleanings-133\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #133"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #133.<\/p>\n

* Freely available on YouTube, “Sixty Years of J.R.R. Tolkien: A Lecture by Professor Thomas Alan Shippey”<\/a>. Given on 27th September 2023. The 90 minute recording is listenable, with Shippey in his home study on Zoom and with a reasonably good headset — rather than in an echoing lecture hall in Manila. It was a familiar personal talk, with nothing new for those familiar with his previous talks and interviews. Questions begin at 53:20, and regrettably they go straight into asking about the TV series. It really should be a given at events such as this that the presenters make it clear: “NO movie or TV questions, please”. Requiring the audience to write their questions succinctly on cards, which are then passed to the front, also saves a lot of time and prevents grand-standing.<\/p>\n

* The latest issue of the Spanish language journal Peonza: Revista de literatura infantil y juvenil<\/a><\/em> (‘Peonza: journal of literature for children and juveniles’) is themed ‘Fantastic Stories’<\/a>. There’s an article on ‘Tolkien’s Infinite Stories’ along with articles on Alice, Pinnochio, Jules Verne, Peter and Wendy, and others. The ongoing Peonza<\/em> appears to be a paper-only journal, which inhibits automatic translation, although the first 132 issues are freely online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Now freely available on Archive.org, Christian History<\/a><\/em> magazine #121 (2017) was themed “Faith in the Foxholes”. The issue highlighted faith during front-line military combat.<\/p>\n

* Apparently now under Creative Commons Attribution, the book The Sacred Tree: Ancient And Medieval Manifestations<\/a><\/em> (2011) has appeared on Archive.org. The author is suitably wary of neo-pagan writing on the topic.<\/p>\n

* “Showcasing lesser-known scholarship on Lewis”, the forthcoming inaugural Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference<\/a>. To be held at George Fox University in Oregon, USA, from 5th-8th September 2024. <\/p>\n

* And finally, 2024 seems to offer the possibility of weaving a series of ‘telling stories to small children’ events or publications around that fact that…<\/p>\n

“According to Douglas Anderson’s introduction to ‘The Annotated Hobbit’, Tolkien began telling stories to his children around 1924”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2024 could thus be reasonably claimed as the 100th anniversary of Tolkien’s first oral tales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #133. * Freely available on YouTube, “Sixty Years of J.R.R. Tolkien: A Lecture by Professor Thomas Alan Shippey”. Given on 27th September 2023. The 90 minute recording is listenable, with Shippey in his home study on Zoom and with a reasonably good headset — rather than in an echoing lecture hall in Manila. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365","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=14365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}