{"id":14995,"date":"2024-02-22T14:57:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14995"},"modified":"2024-02-22T14:57:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:57:38","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/02\/22\/tolkien-gleanings-171\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #171"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #171.<\/p>\n

* New in Portuguese, the book A arte de encontrar Deus entre fantasias e versos: Dante Alighieri, C.S. Lewis e J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a><\/em> (2024), (‘The art of finding God among fantasy and verse: Dante Alighieri, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien’). Although it lists as being 88-pages long, so… perhaps more of a printed set of lectures or a dissertation?<\/p>\n

* A call-for-papers for the conference ‘A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Arda’<\/a>, to be held in Germany in June 2024. The organisers state that… “the possibilities for engaging with Tolkien’s legendarium are almost endless”. Which implies that a speculative future-oriented paper, surveying ‘what has not yet been done, but might be’, could be of interest.<\/p>\n

* New on Archive.org, J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend<\/a><\/em> (1992). Being a fair scan of the illustrated catalogue for the 1992 exhibition at the Bodleian Library.<\/p>\n

* Also new on Archive.org in PDF, a good scan of Tolkien’s edition of the Ancrene Wisse<\/a><\/em> (1962) for The Early English Text Society.<\/p>\n

* In open-access at Glasgow, “By the waters of Anduin we lay down and wept: Tolkien’s Akallabeth<\/em> and the prophetic imagination”<\/a>. This was the lead article in Mallorn<\/em> #64 in late 2023, and is thus otherwise locked down for non-members.<\/p>\n

* The latest edition of The Critic<\/em> magazine has a short review of the new expanded Tolkien Letters<\/em>, and feels… “There is a lushness to this expanded Letters<\/em>“<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* On Etsy to buy, The Fellowship of the Ring<\/a><\/em> and The Two Towers<\/a><\/em> in Yiddish translation, in handmade editions. The Return of the King<\/em> is yet to come, it seems.<\/p>\n

* Some LORAs, for use with your PC’s local Stable Diffusion image generator. One for the clothing of the Regency Period<\/a> in Britain, which means 1811-1820. Though the gentleman’s style lingered on in less fashionable places for another five years or so. Regency could be a useful addition to the arsenal of steampunk artists, but I’m thinking it might also be usefully mixed with some of the older RPGHobbit<\/a> LORA, to try to generate a more ‘rural gentry’ type of hobbit? <\/p>\n

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Update: If this one doesn’t do what you want, a few days later there was also another called Regency Period SD1.5<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This week there’s also a new first attempt at a LORA for Gondor’s city architecture and streets, Minas Numenor<\/a>. Not entirely convincing, judging by the samples, but it might give you a base for a manual over-painting.<\/p>\n

* And finally, new on Archive.org, the Complete Tengwar Fonts Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #171. * New in Portuguese, the book A arte de encontrar Deus entre fantasias e versos: Dante Alighieri, C.S. Lewis e J.R.R. Tolkien (2024), (‘The art of finding God among fantasy and verse: Dante Alighieri, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien’). Although it lists as being 88-pages long, so… perhaps more of a printed […]<\/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-14995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995","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=14995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}