{"id":15082,"date":"2024-03-04T21:38:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T21:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2024-03-04T21:38:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T21:38:45","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/03\/04\/tolkien-gleanings-175\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #175"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #175.<\/p>\n

* Signum University and the Mythgard Institute return to the UK, for the UK Moot on ‘Death and Immortality: The Great Escapes’<\/a> in relation to Tolkien. To be held in the city of York, 27th April 2024. Booking now, and it appears that speaker proposals are still being accepted.<\/p>\n

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* “Frank N. Magill in 1969, on The Lord of the Rings”<\/em><\/a>. Being his lengthy critical evaluation, newly discovered by myself. Judging by Google Books, the 1969 appearance was probably actually a reprint from one or more earlier publications from the prolific Magill. Sadly the probable 1954-56 Masterplots Annual<\/em> sources are not online at Archive.org or Hathi. Also, I’ve since tested some more lines from it online, to see if someone had recognised it in some form before I did. But no, I’ve only found it partly plagiarised in a 2008 dissertation from the Middle East. <\/p>\n

* There are now details of the speakers and topics<\/a> for the Tolkien sessions at the International Medieval Congress at The University of Leeds (July 2024). Various topics, including Anna Smol on “E\u00e4rendil’s Mythopoeic Journeys”.<\/p>\n

* More details on the forthcoming 2024 German event to discuss ‘Tolkien and His Editors’<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“In addition to the central figure of Christopher Tolkien […] the roles of the editors Stanley and Rayner Unwin, the biographer Humphrey Carpenter (Biography; Letters), the student and later colleague Alan Bliss (Hengest and Finn), the daughter-in-law Baillie Tolkien (The Father Christmas Letters) or the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship should also be examined.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* New on Archive.org, scans of Parma Eldalamberon<\/em> #21<\/a> (Quenya noun structure) and Parma Eldalamberon<\/em> #22<\/a> (Quenya verb structure, Feanorian alphabet). Both issues are said to be otherwise out-of-print and unavailable.<\/p>\n

* This week the Cultural Debris<\/em> podcast interviews Holly Ordway on Tolkien’s Faith<\/em><\/a>. A book which I’m currently about two-thirds of the way through reading. I was slightly disappointed not to get more than a mention of the strong early influence of Francis Thompson, in her new book. But I guess that’s really a task for the very rare scholar who combines deep expertise in Francis Thompson, early Tolkien and Catholicism.<\/p>\n

Incidentally I see the Cultural Debris<\/em> podcaster also publishes a print journal, Local Culture<\/a><\/em> which issues substantial themed volumes on localist topics from a conservative viewpoint. Including one issue on The Arts of Region and Place, and another on the localist thought of Roger Scruton. There are also annual conferences.<\/p>\n

* In Italy, PhTea Talks: “The Conception of time in Tolkien’s legendarium”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* “Tolkien Illustration in the Soviet Bloc”<\/a>, post-censorship. A University of Plymouth (UK) talk set for 17th April 2024. Booking now, and the event appears to be in-person only.<\/p>\n

* And finally, a new Tolkien Map Project<\/a> video on YouTube. Said and shown to be a “procedural and fully customisable map system” for making Tolkien-like maps, and now in its final finished form.<\/p>\n

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