{"id":14818,"date":"2024-01-09T22:42:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T22:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14818"},"modified":"2024-01-09T22:42:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T22:42:46","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/01\/09\/tolkien-gleanings-158\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #158"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #158.<\/p>\n

* The dedicated Tolkien and Alliterative Verse website has a new “‘Secondary Sources’ page now online”<\/a>. In the near future the editors also hope to be… “adding works on Tolkien\u2019s engagement with Middle English alliterative poetry”.<\/p>\n

* The USA’s National Nordic Museum is set for a Tolkien round-table discussion on Tolkien and Norse mythology, to accompany a big-screen screening of the first part of the LoTR<\/em> movie trilogy. At a guess, then, it might be the first of a three-part event? Anyway it’s set for 18th January 2024 in Seattle.<\/p>\n

* “Shadow Shrouds and Moonlight Veils: The Forest as an Existential Scene in Tolkien’s Legendarium”, a brisk survey chapter from the Indiana University Press book Beasts of The Forest: denizens of the dark woods<\/a><\/em> (2019). This chapter is now newly free via Academia.edu. Scholar has a special arrangement with Academia.edu, and those not signed up to .edu can get a downloadable PDF simply by searching Google Scholar for “Shadow Shrouds and Moonlight Veils”. In the book, the chapter is paired with “Fiendish Forests of Middle-earth: Tolkien\u2019s Trees as Ominous Adversaries” (not yet online).<\/p>\n

* A Signum University online course “J.R.R. Tolkien: A Life in Letters 1”<\/a>, running as two parts in February, and then “A Life in Letters 2” as another two-parter in March 2024<\/a>. Also in March at Signum, I see the courses “Tolkien, the Anglo-Saxon Minstrel” on Tolkien\u2019s Anglo-Saxon poetic inspirations, and “Grief, Mourning, and Death in Tolkien’s Legendarium”. Booking now.<\/p>\n

* In Finnish in the new issue of the open-access journal Fafnir<\/em>, “Hautaamistavat J.R.R. Tolkienin fantasiafiktiossa”<\/a> (‘Burial customs in Tolkien’). <\/p>\n

* Also in Finnish, The Lord of the Rings<\/em> as a four-hour stage epic<\/a>, set to have its premiere in Finland’s capital in August 2024. With… “original music by the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra”.<\/p>\n

* And finally, Progressive Rock Central<\/em> begins a new series for 2024, “Tolkien and Progressive Rock. Part I. The 1960s and 70s”<\/a>. Not a critical article, but rather a blog post with a very long set of YouTube embeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #158. * The dedicated Tolkien and Alliterative Verse website has a new “‘Secondary Sources’ page now online”. In the near future the editors also hope to be… “adding works on Tolkien\u2019s engagement with Middle English alliterative poetry”. * The USA’s National Nordic Museum is set for a Tolkien round-table discussion on Tolkien 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-14818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818","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=14818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}