{"id":15235,"date":"2024-03-17T22:58:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T22:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=15235"},"modified":"2024-03-17T22:58:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T22:58:15","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/03\/17\/tolkien-gleanings-181\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #181"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #181.<\/p>\n

* New from Walking Tree, the book The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a><\/em>. An edited collection which includes among others “J.R.R. Tolkien, Walter Scott, and Scott-ish Romanticism”, and “‘The Backs of Trees’: Tolkien, the British Theological Romantics, & the Fantastic Imagination”. Available for pre-order from Amazon UK<\/a> and possibly other Amazon sites, with a publication date of 31st March 2024.<\/p>\n

* Also new from Walking Tree, the single author book Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Legendarium<\/a><\/em>. With a foreword by Tom Shippey and an introduction by Thomas Honegger. Available now.<\/p>\n

* Free scans of books by R.R. Marett, Tolkien’s personal tutor at Exeter College from 1913. Most are collections of his famously lucid and focused lectures, and many can be downloaded.<\/p>\n

  – The Birth of Humility<\/a><\/em> (1910, inaugural lecture) (To ‘read online’ only)<\/p>\n

  – The Threshold of Religion<\/a><\/em> (1914, enlarged and revised second edition)<\/p>\n

  – Psychology and Folk-lore<\/a><\/em> (1920) <\/p>\n

  – The Diffusion of Culture<\/a><\/em> (1927, printed lecture) (To ‘read online’ only)<\/p>\n

  – The Raw Material of Religion<\/em> (1929, printed lecture, not online)<\/p>\n

  – Faith, Hope and Charity in Primitive Religion<\/a><\/em> (1930\u20131932)<\/p>\n

  – Sacraments of Simple Folk<\/a><\/em> (1933) (To ‘borrow’ only)<\/p>\n

  – Head Heart And Hands In Human Evolution<\/a><\/em> (1935)<\/p>\n

* And finally, the latest issue of the open-access journal on fan-works, Transformative Works and Cultures<\/a><\/em>. The topic of the issue is ‘Fandoms and platforms’, meaning online platforms rather than role-playing flets<\/em>. Includes “The Fading of the Elves: techno-volunteerism and the disappearance of Tolkien fan fiction archives”<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #181. * New from Walking Tree, the book The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien. An edited collection which includes among others “J.R.R. Tolkien, Walter Scott, and Scott-ish Romanticism”, and “‘The Backs of Trees’: Tolkien, the British Theological Romantics, & the Fantastic Imagination”. Available for pre-order from Amazon UK and possibly […]<\/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-15235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15235","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=15235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}