{"id":15147,"date":"2024-03-10T13:56:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T13:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=15147"},"modified":"2024-03-10T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T13:56:25","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/03\/10\/tolkien-gleanings-177\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #177"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #177.<\/p>\n

* The obituary of Richard Douglas Plotz<\/a> (1948-2024), the organiser in 1965 of the Tolkien Society of America, publisher of the early Tolkien Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* Now on YouTube, the recent John Garth lecture at Oxford titled “Inventing on the hoof: How the Riders of Rohan suddenly became Anglo-Saxon”<\/a>. One of a series of talks from different scholars. The audio for this one is quite listenable.<\/p>\n

* The blog of the venerable Tolkien scholars Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull<\/a> has re-awakened after many years, with a post that ends with a teaser for their new book. More news on the book is due “next week”.<\/p>\n

* A new attempt to succinctly summarise the various “Tolkien Middle-earth Rights”<\/a> as they currently stand and mostly for film and TV. In ten minutes. As with all legal advice, obtain a second-opinion before embarking on making your own Middle-earthy production.<\/p>\n

* An exploratory academic project on Tolkien’s Green Knight<\/em><\/a>, at Inverness in the UK. Google Search dates the page’s appearance as February 2024, but… Google.<\/p>\n

* Long listed as “currently unavailable” on Amazon UK, I see publisher Cambridge Scholars is listing their hardback of the book The Mirror Crack’d: Fear and Horror in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Major Works<\/a><\/em> (2008) as available to buy.<\/p>\n

* “A snippet on Stoke”<\/a>, adding a new 1962 date to Tolkien’s many visits<\/a> to the West Midlands city of Stoke-on-Trent.<\/p>\n

* Note that December 2024 will be the 20th anniversary of the release of the ‘Extended’ “Director’s Cut” DVDs of the LoTR<\/em> movies. Even if you don’t care for the visuals or plot-chopping of the screen adaptation, the extended movies can still surely be celebrated for their magnificent soundtrack and superb voice-work. One imagines the 20th anniversary might then be the occasion for a scholarly event perhaps titled “Tolkien’s Tones and Timbres”, to discuss the sounds and delivery of voices in the literature, the three movies, and the audio fan-work (e.g. Phil Dragash). Perhaps also with a nod to that out-of-reach aspect of the historical voice that Tolkien was tantalised by, the silent modulation and inflection of the spoken word by the speaker’s simultaneous non-verbal communication. In some cases there is also the aurality of the texts to consider, and for instance Tolkien once wrote “The Hobbit was specially written for reading aloud”.<\/p>\n

* And finally, The Great British Spring Clean is set for 15th-31st March 2024. Pick up at least one bin-bag of litter (U.S.: ‘trash’) in your area. Tolkien died just as the scourge of litter began to be recognised circa 1972-4 (the years of Keep Britain Tidy campaigning and The Wombles<\/em>). But I can quite see him with a litter-picking stick<\/a> and a bin-bag today, wombling around his local woodland paths. It’s surely a cause he would have approved of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #177. * The obituary of Richard Douglas Plotz (1948-2024), the organiser in 1965 of the Tolkien Society of America, publisher of the early Tolkien Journal. * Now on YouTube, the recent John Garth lecture at Oxford titled “Inventing on the hoof: How the Riders of Rohan suddenly became Anglo-Saxon”. One of a series […]<\/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-15147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147","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=15147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}