{"id":15319,"date":"2024-04-19T17:34:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=15319"},"modified":"2024-04-19T17:34:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T16:34:17","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-190","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/04\/19\/tolkien-gleanings-190\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #190"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/category\/tolkien-gleanings\/\">Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #190.<\/p>\n<p>* Another round of Oxford&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk\/event\/tolkien-50th-anniversary-seminar-series\">Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series<\/a> talks on Tolkien. The first is on 22nd April 2024 and will examine his reaction to his late fame. Also set to include &#8220;Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar&#8221; and &#8220;The characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan&#8221;, among others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/tolktalks-oxford-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/tolktalks-oxford-2024.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Four earlier Tolkien 50th talks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TolkienOxford50\/videos\">newly online at YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/newoxford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/newoxford.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* A <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.swosu.edu\/mythlore\/vol42\/iss2\/\">new issue of <em>Mythlore<\/em><\/a>, with a lead article on  <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.swosu.edu\/mythlore\/vol42\/iss2\/2\/\">&#8220;Tolkien Augustinian Theodicy, and &#8216;Lovecraftian&#8217; Evil&#8221;<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n<p>* In the latest <em>Journal of Inklings Studies<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euppublishing.com\/doi\/abs\/10.3366\/ink.2024.0217\">&#8220;C.S. Lewis on Female Scholars: A Reply to John D. Rateliff&#8221;<\/a> ($ paywall)&#8230; &#8220;What Lewis rebukes is academic complacency and vanity, not female researchers, many of whom Lewis respected and even befriended.&#8221; The new issue also has a number of free reviews of recent books on Tolkien.<\/p>\n<p>* Now online, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolkiensociety.org\/events\/the-tolkien-society-hybrid-seminar-2024-tolkiens-romantic-resonances\/tolkien-society-2024-seminar-paper-abstracts\/\">Tolkien Society 2024 Seminar Paper Abstracts<\/a>. This is the forthcoming one on Romanticism in July 2024, with papers including &#8220;&ldquo;Fiery the Angels rose&#8221;: The Romantic Prometheanism of Tolkien&#8217;s Enemies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de\/opportunities-en\/index\">&#8216;Arcastar Lerinosse: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Arda&#8217;<\/a>, a one-day Tolkien Workshop at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Seemingly a student-focused event, and set for 28th June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>* Newly listed on Amazon UK, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3w1DTSW\">Tolkien Spirituality: Constructing Belief and Tradition in Fiction-based Religion<\/a><\/em>. Set for publication in July 2024, a 350-page book as part of academic publisher De Gruyter&#8217;s &#8216;Religion and Society&#8217; series.<\/p>\n<p>* And finally, Tolkien&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/notionclubpapers.blogspot.com\/2024\/02\/broad-relic-in-notion-club-papers-is.html\">&#8220;&ldquo;Broad Relic&#8221; in the Notion Club Papers is the island of Flat Holm&#8221;<\/a> in the Bristol Channel, England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien Gleanings #190. * Another round of Oxford&#8217;s Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series talks on Tolkien. The first is on 22nd April 2024 and will examine his reaction to his late fame. 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