{"id":15711,"date":"2024-06-25T19:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T18:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=15711"},"modified":"2024-06-25T19:08:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T18:08:05","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/06\/25\/tolkien-gleanings-211\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #211"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #211.<\/p>\n

* Fine Books Magazine<\/em> reports “Tolkien’s Page Proofs in Folger’s New Special Exhibitions Gallery”<\/a>. These are his hand-corrected proof-copies of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. On show until 5th January 2025, in Washington, DC, USA.<\/p>\n

* The new Tolkien memorial in Oxford, in the artist’s local Stourbridge News<\/em><\/a> newspaper (which covers the southern parts of the Black Country near Birmingham). With excellent pictures.<\/p>\n

* Due in October 2024, a new book from the Catholic University of America Press titled Tolkien, Philosopher of War<\/a><\/em>. Exploring Tolkien’s “philosophical and theological understanding of war”, the book appears to focus around the dangers of vanity in relation to militarism and war. Vanity is here seen as a key factor in the first emergence (Italian Futurism) of what would become the paramilitary political platforms of the inter-war years. Tolkien’s LoTR<\/em> can thus be seen to… “dramatize[s] an aesthetic resistance to Futurism” and its “apocalyptic politics”.<\/p>\n

* Talking of war, new on YouTube is a new 50-minute podcast aiming to present “The Real ‘War of the Rohirrim’, According to Tolkien”<\/a>. This will be useful for many, as the mass marketing for the new anim\u00e9 movie starts to reveal a radically different and non-Tolkien plot. Skip to 18.15 minutes in the podcast\/video to save yourself some time, and to arrive at the promised focus.<\/p>\n

* Also new on YouTube, the podcast “Tolkien & Lewis & Wesley”<\/a> in which… “Nick Polk of Tolkien [discusses] his involvement with Mallorn<\/em>, the Tolkien Society journal”.<\/p>\n

* In the second issue of the new journal Nexus<\/em>, a short student essay on “J.R.R. Tolkien and Escapism”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Seemingly released under Creative Commons as part of Archive.org’s recent ingestion of newly Open Access books, Tom Shippey’s Beowulf and the North Before the Vikings<\/a><\/em>….<\/p>\n

“What follows is a challenge to a well-established consensus, which as I argue below was created in large part by Professor Tolkien. It is also in some respects a dialogue with Tolkien, and moreover points to a kind of dialogue between Tolkien young and Tolkien old \u2014 a dialogue which has hardly been noticed within the scholarly world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* And finally, a nerdy computerised comparison of the writings of Tolkien and Lewis<\/a>. These are crunched… <\/p>\n

mathematically by using an original multi\u2013dimensional analysis of linguistic parameters, based on surface deep\u2013language variables and linguistic channels. [This reveals] strong connections between The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), The Chronicles of Narnia, The Space Trilogy (Lewis) and novels by [George] MacDonald.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #211. * Fine Books Magazine reports “Tolkien’s Page Proofs in Folger’s New Special Exhibitions Gallery”. These are his hand-corrected proof-copies of The Lord of the Rings. On show until 5th January 2025, in Washington, DC, USA. * The new Tolkien memorial in Oxford, in the artist’s local Stourbridge News newspaper (which covers 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-15711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711","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=15711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}