{"id":14829,"date":"2024-01-14T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T21:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14829"},"modified":"2024-01-14T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T21:26:32","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/01\/14\/tolkien-gleanings-159\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #159"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #159.<\/p>\n

* The New York Tolkien Conference<\/a> will return in summer 2024, after a hiatus (the last event was before the lockdowns, in 2019). The conference will be held as a one-day event on 15th June 2024 at Baruch College, which is in the centre of Manhattan, New York City. Booking now, and I see that the call-for-papers is still open.<\/p>\n

* Due toward the end of April 2024, a single-author study of War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/em>, by Janet Brennan Croft. Amazon UK currently ‘knows nurthink’, but this book appears to be an affordable Bloomsbury reprint<\/a> of her Preager 2004 hardcover of the same name. A comparison of the page-counts doesn’t suggest a new expanded edition.<\/p>\n

* New to me, a useful website from a collector, dedicated to The Lord of the Rings<\/em> Translations<\/a>. The site seems to have appeared in late summer 2023, and has updated since.<\/p>\n

* “Catholic Culture with Tolkien”<\/a>, a public lecture at the University of Washington, with a speaker from the University of Nebraska. Set for 18th January 2024.<\/p>\n

* The University of Leiden has an afternoon event for advanced students titled “Heroes of Old and New: A Symposium on Tolkien and Old English Philology”. Set for 19th January 2024. I know there are still a few outposts of rigorous philology in Europe, and I’m guessing that Leiden is a place where a philology course is still taught?<\/p>\n

* A call for material for an edited book with a working title of Flights of the Imagination: Dragons in Mythology and Folklore<\/em>. Deadline: 17th February 2024, with chapters to be delivered by 15th May 2024. “Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu”<\/p>\n

* Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education is set to offer “The Making of Middle-earth: Tolkien and the First Age”<\/a> and \u201cWritten in my life-blood\u201d: J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/a> as 2024 summer school courses. Currently both Web pages state… “we are expecting to announce [booking] in the coming weeks.”<\/p>\n

* And finally, the novelist John Buchan’s pamphlet The Novel and the Fairy Tale<\/em><\/a> (1931) is now online<\/a> for free as a scan at Archive.org, via the University of Kashmir. It seems the essay was read by Tolkien in the 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #159. * The New York Tolkien Conference will return in summer 2024, after a hiatus (the last event was before the lockdowns, in 2019). The conference will be held as a one-day event on 15th June 2024 at Baruch College, which is in the centre of Manhattan, New York City. Booking now, 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-14829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829","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=14829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}