{"id":15659,"date":"2024-06-11T20:46:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=15659"},"modified":"2024-06-11T20:46:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:46:57","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/06\/11\/tolkien-gleanings-207\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #207"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #207.<\/p>\n

* The Times<\/em> notes a forthcoming sale at the Sotheby’s auction house, of a large bundle of Tolkien\u2019s correspondence with Donald Swann. Swann was a composer (The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle<\/em>) and also one half of the musical comedy duo Flanders and Swann<\/a>. At present, Sotheby’s has no Web page or date for the sale. Forum commenters suggest the bundle has material not in the new edition of the Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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* Middle Moot 2024<\/a>. 26th October 2024 at the World War I Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, and themed “Consolation, Recovery, & Hope in Faerie”. The call for proposals is now open, and closes 26th September 2024. <\/p>\n

* The Moss Dreams<\/em> blog homes in on a specific Tolkien health claim, in “Tolkien: Faery is Necessary for Your Health”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The VoegelinView<\/em> blog reviews Myth, Magic, and Power in Tolkien\u2019s Middle-Earth<\/em><\/a> (2023).<\/p>\n

* New at The Great Courses website, “Pilot Lecture: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Their Circle”<\/a>. Apparently there’s a new course of lectures from this leading online-learning company, coming soon.<\/p>\n

* At Signum University, a new page for the proposed August 2024 online modules<\/a>. These include: “Adaptations of Middle-earth: From Deitch and Bakshi to Jackson”; “The body in Tolkien’s legendarium”; and “Utopias and dystopias in The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

* St. Bernard’s School of Theology on “Image of the Maker: The Theological Poetics of George Macdonald and J.R.R. Tolkien”<\/a>. This article introduces a seven-week summer school course, set to run online from early July 2024. This appears to be eligible for anyone to ‘sit in on’ (U.S.: ‘audit’) as part of their One Free Summer Audit Opportunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* There is reported to be “a new Chinese translation of Tolkien’s biography” available inside China. This is Carpenter’s biography, nicely produced as a hardback but with “more than 100 pages” of updating annotations. These reference later information found in the first three volumes of HoME<\/em> and the J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide<\/em> volumes. Though what edition of the latter was used is uncertain. The amount of censorship is also uncertain.<\/p>\n

* The venerable Prometheus Awards welcome fantasy books<\/a>. The organisers remind potential entrants that… “Many falsely assume that the Prometheus Awards are exclusively focused on ‘libertarian science fiction’ [but] fantasy has always been eligible for nomination”. Also worth noting is that, to give readers an idea of what’s eligible, the article offers a rich list of suggested freedom-loving titles in fantasy, sword & sorcery and more.<\/p>\n

* And finally, what’s claimed to be the “U.S. premiere” of the stage adaptation The Lord of the Rings \u2013 A Musical Tale<\/a><\/em>. Chicago, USA, running from July until at least October 2024. Booking now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #207. * The Times notes a forthcoming sale at the Sotheby’s auction house, of a large bundle of Tolkien\u2019s correspondence with Donald Swann. Swann was a composer (The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle) and also one half of the musical comedy duo Flanders and Swann. At present, Sotheby’s has no Web […]<\/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-15659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659","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=15659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}