{"id":15110,"date":"2024-03-08T23:45:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T23:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=15110"},"modified":"2024-03-08T23:45:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T23:45:48","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/03\/08\/tolkien-gleanings-176\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #176"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #176.<\/p>\n

* “Tom Bombadil and the ‘hyper-fantastic’ in J.R.R. Tolkien”<\/a>, a new essay in English from the Spanish Tolkien Society. Freely available, newly posted as part of the Society’s Aelfwine<\/em> 2023<\/a> set of contest-winning essays.<\/p>\n

* Freely available, the Masters dissertation “Fantasy in Translation: an Analysis and Comparison of the English Chapter ‘The Council of Elrond’ from J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings<\/em> and its Chinese Translation”<\/a> (2023). Italian, in English with Chinese quotations. It concludes that…<\/p>\n

“Despite several errors \u2013 some of which produce a distortion of the original text’s meaning – this [Ding Di] Chinese edition of The Lord of the Rings is important as it marked a new era for the country\u2019s fantasy production.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This complements the new book Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n

* New in Russian, an essay which translates as “The motif of radiance in the poems ‘Christ’ by Cynewulf and ‘The Last Wandering of Earendel’ by J.R.R. Tolkien”<\/a> (2023). Freely available. The author suggests the ‘Christ’ echoes…<\/p>\n

“Dionysius the Areopagite, a church thinker of the 1st century, who in his work “On the Heavenly Hierarchy” directly says that the angels are filled with “sacred radiance” [5, p.21]. It is unclear whether Cynewulf was familiar with the work of the Areopagite, but the idea itself had long been comprehended by the Church and adapted for preaching.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* “Why Tolkien Hated Dune”<\/em><\/a>. A strong and long article, but “hated” is too strong a word. Even if Tolkien’s comment in a letter that “I dislike Dune<\/em> with some intensity” comes close. I object to the use because the casual-fanboy clickbait-y use of “Tolkien hated…” seems a worrying new trend. He “hated” Disney. He “hated” Frank Herbert\u2019s Dune<\/em>. He “hated” modern technology. He “hated” the Roman Empire, and so on. All this seems dangerous in a world where there are some who would like to establish a false consensus, in the minds of the uninformed young, that “everyone knows” Tolkien was a hater. Such headlines may contribute to subtly establishing a climate-of-feeling about the man, which could then be exploited further by those with an anti-Tolkien agenda.<\/p>\n

* Depressed by the media’s relentless drum-beat of doom, pessimism and alarmism, this week The Good Catholic<\/em> finds hope that ““The Eagles Are Coming!”: Tolkien & the Catholic Hope of Eucatastrophe”<\/a>. Well… yes. But perhaps adding a reading of the secular The Rational Optimist<\/em> could triple the antidote effect.<\/p>\n

* On “Forgetting the Way to Faerie”<\/a>, with some choice quotes.<\/p>\n

* Forthcoming in May 2024 from Manchester University Press, the book Fantastic Histories: Medieval fairy narratives and the limits of wonder<\/em>. Set to examine… <\/p>\n

“the histories of Gerald of Wales and Walter Map, the continental mirabilia of Gervase of Tilbury, and the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French Melusine romances and their early English reception”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* “Bees in folk belief and practices before and now” (2023), free via searching for the article title “in quotes” on Google Scholar. A well-researched Estonian scholarly essay in English, with a strong medieval focus and useful awareness of Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

* On DeviantArt, Kuliszu of Poland<\/a>, who paints often-charming naive-style artworks of Middle-earth scenes.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, Tolkien\u2019s uncle Wilfred (1870-1938)<\/a>. Not much to go on at present, but who knows where slim leads might lead to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #176. * “Tom Bombadil and the ‘hyper-fantastic’ in J.R.R. Tolkien”, a new essay in English from the Spanish Tolkien Society. Freely available, newly posted as part of the Society’s Aelfwine 2023 set of contest-winning essays. * Freely available, the Masters dissertation “Fantasy in Translation: an Analysis and Comparison of the English Chapter ‘The […]<\/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-15110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15110","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=15110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}