{"id":14837,"date":"2024-01-19T20:33:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T20:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14837"},"modified":"2024-01-19T20:33:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T20:33:54","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/01\/19\/tolkien-gleanings-160\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #160"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #160.<\/p>\n

* Phil Dragash’s full-cast unabridged audio of The Fellowship of the Ring<\/a><\/em>, one of the great audio-works of our time, has been updated with a 2023 version. Released today. Importantly there is a…<\/p>\n

“new version of [the 1.04 hours chapter, now 1.09] ‘A Journey in the Dark’, provided by Phil Dragash, that restores the sections missing from the original”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The sections missing (due to an oversight) total five minutes and involved the latter part of the wading of the Watcher’s pool-edge, the first encounter with the likely site of the door-trees and Doors of Moria, and the short but poignant section involving Bill the pony. I identified the absence a year or two ago, and I’m very glad it has now been restored. Those impressed by his free work may like to know that I had a long interview with Phil in the first issue of my Tolkien Gleanings<\/em> PDF.<\/p>\n

To legally download Dragash’s recording of Fellowship<\/em> you need to own the books in print, the official audiobook, and also the Howard Shore score recording.<\/p>\n

* A look at the pleasing 1977 Folio Society header-art<\/a> for Fellowship<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* From Japan in English, the new “Frodo the Wanderer from the Shire: Self, Elf-Friends, and Community in The Lord of the Rings”<\/em><\/a>. Free in open-access. The academic repository labels this as January 2024, and as coming from the Bulletin<\/em> of The Society of English Literature and Linguistics, Nagoya University, Japan.<\/p>\n

* At the Marion E. Wade Center on 1st February 2024, “‘Dreaming in the Margins’: Tolkien\u2019s Engagements with The Battle of Maldon” with Benjamin Weber. It appears there will be an online livestream<\/a>. Weber…<\/p>\n

“will discuss J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s recently-released translation of the Old English poem ‘The Battle of Maldon’ with reference to both Tolkien\u2019s fiction and scholarship on Old English literature.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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* Also at Wheaton in May 2024, George MacDonald and the Prophetic Imagination: A Bicentenary Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Set for April 2024 in the UK, a conference session on The Past, Present and Future of Medieval Art in the British Isles<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“Recent discoveries such as the Staffordshire Hoard, the Macclesfield Psalter, and the wall paintings of St Cadoc\u2019s, Llancarfan<\/a>, and the publication of significant studies of Anglo-Saxon through Gothic art in Britain have profoundly changed the scholarly landscape and demand that we reassess some of our key ideas and approaches.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps room here for a paper on Tolkien’s influences, in terms of enticing fresh talent? I’d imaging there are stories to tell about how a youthful interest in Tolkien and Middle-earth led ultimately into a career in the field? And lessons to be drawn from this.<\/p>\n

* Italy continues its work with advanced school pupils with the 2024 “Tolkienian Itineraries” series of workshops. “Aimed at classical high school students”, the students undertake a 30-hour project under the guidance of five expert teachers… “coming from different disciplinary areas but sharing an interest in Tolkien studies”.<\/p>\n

* Three articles from Volume 2 of the Italian I Quaderni di Arda: Rivista di studi Tolkieniani e mondi fantastici<\/em> (2020) are now available free on Academia.edu, and can also be had without joining Academia.edu by searching “for their titles” in quote marks on Google Scholar.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, the UK’s Barnsley Chronicle<\/em> local newspaper reports “Museum seeks out best Tolkien memorabilia”<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“The [town’s] museum will host an online event on Thursday 21st February 2024, between 6.30pm and 7.30pm to find the best Lord of the Rings memorabilia in the country.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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