{"id":14557,"date":"2023-12-06T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14557"},"modified":"2023-12-06T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T12:22:03","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/12\/06\/tolkien-gleanings-145\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #145"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #145.<\/p>\n

* A Rome Reports<\/em> two-minute TV-news style video<\/a> takes cameras inside the Italian National Gallery for a peep at the successful new Tolkien exhibition there, and interviews Oronzo Cilli. Be sure to turn on YouTube’s auto-subtitles.<\/p>\n

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* The Athrabeth<\/em> podcast interviews Thomas P. Hillman<\/a>. His new book is due just before Christmas from Kent State University Press, titled Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many<\/em>. The publisher’s blurb has…<\/p>\n

“Instead of turning his interpretation [of LoTR] to allegory or [Christian] apologetics, Hillman demonstrates how the story works metaphorically, allowing Tolkien to embrace both Catholic views and pagan mythology.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Seemly newly up for auction, Tolkien’s hand-written 25th September 1954 letter<\/a> to someone who had given The Lord of the Rings<\/em> an attentive and positive review on publication of Fellowship<\/em>. In the New Statesman<\/em> magazine, of all places. Presumably British armchair leftists had no idea what was coming, given that only the first volume of LoTR<\/em> had by then appeared, or they might have had a more hostile reviewer lined up. My guess would be that the editor simply nodded it through.<\/p>\n

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The item up for auction appears to be Letter 154<\/a> in the Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* I found the site of L’Arco e la Corte<\/a>, an Italian publisher offering Tolkien scholarship including a journal. This gave me the Italian journal’s Minas Tirith<\/em> #23<\/a> (May 2023) contents in Italian, which includes among others…<\/p>\n

    – Tolkien the philologist and Armand Berger’s Res germanica<\/em>.
\n    – At the Origin of the Elvish Languages: Early Quendian and Proto-Indo-European.
\n    – Elvish language trees according to various later conceptions of J.R.R. Tolkien.
\n    – The French ‘Library’ of J.R.R. Tolkien.<\/p>\n

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A Tolkien page in their catalogue also revealed interesting items (though again, published in Italian). Among which are, here given in English title-translation…<\/p>\n

Glimmers of things higher, deeper, or darker than its surface<\/em> (conference proceedings); Travelling to Isengard: Tolkien and European traditions<\/em> (multi-author, scholars from widely differing disciplines); J.R.R. Tolkien, philologist and poet between antiquity and the 20th century<\/em> (a short primer for Italians on Tolkien’s Philology and his wider academic interests); and a two-volume The Languages \u200b\u200bof the Elves of Middle-earth – History and development of the Elvish languages \u200b\u200bof Arda<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* And finally, An Unexpected Journal<\/em> has the new essay “Melchizedek, Bombadil, and the Numinous in The Lord of the Rings”<\/em><\/a>. A new long and Bible-aware essay, which suggests a possible Biblical source \/ influence for Bombadil. One that’s new to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #145. * A Rome Reports two-minute TV-news style video takes cameras inside the Italian National Gallery for a peep at the successful new Tolkien exhibition there, and interviews Oronzo Cilli. Be sure to turn on YouTube’s auto-subtitles. * The Athrabeth podcast interviews Thomas P. Hillman. His new book is due just before Christmas […]<\/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-14557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557","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=14557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}