{"id":14891,"date":"2024-01-28T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14891"},"modified":"2024-01-28T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T20:17:08","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/01\/28\/tolkien-gleanings-163\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #163"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #163.<\/p>\n

* Publisher Walking Tree posts a free PDF offprint of a long review<\/a> in Lembas Katern<\/em>, which appears to be an extra to the Dutch Tolkien Society’s Lembas<\/em> publication<\/a>. The review is of Thomas Honegger’s new book Tweaking Things a Little: Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin<\/em> (2023), and the reviewer is mostly concerned with Martin and his Game of Thrones<\/em>. Though the book’s terse table-of-contents…<\/p>\n

1. Worldbuilding, Icebergs, Depth, and Enchantment
\n2. Names, Onomastics, and Onomaturgy
\n3. Languages
\n4. Riders, Chivalry, and Knighthood
\n5. Ethics<\/p>\n

… is usefully detailed for the first time. The “Names” section of the book, the reviewer reveals, has a lot to say about Tolkien’s earendel<\/em> in the context of naming and names. And I assume, from the comments on its length, that the section is either new or expanded \/ updated. I’ll thus have to obtain the book at some point. Rather amusingly the reviewer chafes at Honegger’s use of 15 pages to explicate earendel<\/em>. When my book on the subject required 200,000 words. [Update: I now have the Honegger book, and can see why the reviewer felt a bit exasperated. It’s 15 pages of ‘floundering about’, to no great effect. And a good chunk of it is simply re-telling Earendel’s role in Tolkien’s back-story.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

* The new-ish book Charms, Liturgies, and Secret Rites in Early Medieval England<\/a><\/em> (2018) is this weekend highlighted on medievalists.net, and the free sample there throws light on the name Galdor<\/em>. Via the book’s first chapter on “Anglo-Saxon Understandings of Galdor”<\/em>. You’ll of course recall the sceptical elf-lord at The Council of Elrond, named as ‘Galdor of the Havens’.<\/p>\n

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* There’s a new book on the intellectual and religious reception of C.S. Lewis in America<\/em> in the 20th century, and the author is currently doing a number of podcasts<\/a> and webinars.<\/p>\n

* A three-part series of blog articles for The Davenant Institute at the end of 2023, “Like the Days of the Tree: The Other Voice of Allegory in Tolkien\u2019s Artistic Reflections”<\/a>; “Behold Your Music: Harmonic Sorrow in Tolkien’s Ainulindale<\/em>“<\/a> and “Eagles, Ents, and Dwarves: Tolkien’s Taming of the Romantic Imagination”<\/a>. <\/p>\n

* A new PDF paper in Portuguese, whose title translates for sense as “Place And Cartography In The Hobbit<\/em>: Reflections On Teaching Geography”<\/a>. There would certainly seem to be potential for eight year olds to move from an initial local ‘classroom mapping’ (e.g. “create a frieze-map in the classroom, discovering and naming what we can see along the far-horizon from our classroom window”), to the creation of a similar fantasy map-scroll for the journey in The Hobbit<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* And finally, a pleasingly crafted envisioning of Bilbo’s wall-map<\/a> with his favourite Shire walks marked on it in red ink.<\/p>\n

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Although note that Bilbo’s may actually have been smaller in range, depending on what the “Country Round” encompassed for Bilbo…<\/p>\n

“He loved maps, and in his hall there hung a large one of the Country Round with all his favourite walks marked on it in red ink.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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