{"id":14452,"date":"2023-10-31T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14452"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:45:40","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/10\/31\/tolkien-gleanings-139\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #139"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/category\/tolkien-gleanings\/\">Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #139.<\/p>\n<p>* The new book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3tU8Irh\">Many Times &amp; Many Places: C.S. Lewis and the Value of History<\/a><\/em> (August 2023) examines the value that Lewis placed on the study of history, and on its established divisions. The book&#8217;s blurb suggests it may also discuss the scholarly methods used by Lewis and his generation in truth-sifting regarding the past, and the flipside of this in the form of their historical imagination. Thus the book may also be of some relevance to understanding Tolkien. Possibly even a shelf-companion to the forthcoming book <em>The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/em> (December 2023)?<\/p>\n<p>* New and freely available in the HCommons repository, <a href=\"https:\/\/hcommons.org\/deposits\/item\/hc:60131\/\">&#8220;J.R.R. Tolkien at the University of Leeds&#8221;<\/a>. Being&#8230; &#8220;the English-language original of the article published [in Japanese in the journal] <em>Eureka: Poetry and Criticism<\/em>&#8221; for November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>* New and freely available in <em>The European Conservative<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanconservative.com\/articles\/essay\/the-apocalypse-according-to-j-r-r-tolkien\/\">&#8220;The Apocalypse According to J.R.R. Tolkien&#8221;<\/a>, a long article focussing on the&#8230; &#8220;profound questions about the fate of the world&#8221; that troubled the Christians of Tolkien&#8217;s generation.<\/p>\n<p>* Running online during November 2023, the Signum University short course <a href=\"https:\/\/blackberry.signumuniversity.org\/space\/modules\/month\/2023-11\/\">Tolkien and the Romantics: Imagining and Dreaming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/novcourse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/novcourse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"588\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Two further <em>&#8220;The History of Middle-earth<\/em> Box Sets&#8221; have now appeared on Amazon UK as listing pages. It looks like the <em>History<\/em> re-issue will now be four, rather than two, sets of boxed hardcovers. Set 3 is pencilled in for September 2024, followed by Set 4 in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>* And finally, two weeks to the opening of the medium-sized Tolkien show at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. The official website fails not only in its grinding slowness (over 100 x 1.8Mb background panel images arranged in a grid&#8230; what on earth are their web designers and museum managers thinking of?), but also fails to inform about the coming-soon Tolkien show. Yet one can at least determine that day-tickets for the museum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickets-rome.com\/the-national-gallery-of-modern-art-tickets\/\">are 13 euros per person<\/a>. The price seems to include all shows and galleries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien Gleanings #139. * The new book Many Times &amp; Many Places: C.S. Lewis and the Value of History (August 2023) examines the value that Lewis placed on the study of history, and on its established divisions. 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