{"id":15724,"date":"2024-06-29T10:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T09:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=15724"},"modified":"2024-06-29T10:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T09:02:43","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/06\/29\/tolkien-gleanings-212\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #212"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #212.<\/p>\n

* New thoughts from the venerable Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger, on “The Literary Power of Hobbits”<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“Hobbits were no part of Tolkien\u2019s original plan. They entered rather late and through a side door [ … Their addition] shouldn\u2019t have worked. But it did. The world can be grateful.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Listings for the heavily delayed book Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959<\/a><\/em> now show a pleasing cover.<\/p>\n

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“He lectured on Chaucer, edited Chaucer, and published essays on Chaucer. Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 reprints many of these works for the first time, and documents Tolkien’s career-long engagement with the poet and traces [Chaucer’s] influence in Tolkien’s own works.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* The Thoughts on Tolkien<\/em> blog, exploring Tolkien’s use of a Latin phrase<\/a>, sursum corda<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* The annual Aelfwine Essay Awards<\/a>, for which the Spanish Tolkien Society invites entries. Essays can be up to 10,000 words and can be submitted in English, but must also have an accompanying Spanish translation. Deadline: 31st October 2024.<\/p>\n

* Due 26th September 2024, and well-timed for the “back to university, got my grant-cheque” period, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction<\/a><\/em>. Part of the ‘Very Short Introductions’ pocket-book series from Oxford University Press. The author is a lecturer in Mediaeval Studies at the University of York. <\/p>\n

* On YouTube, the Digital Tolkien Project has another monthly progress update, for June 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* A YouTube recording of Holly Ordway on Tolkien’s Faith<\/a>, speaking recently in a lecture at an American theological seminary.<\/p>\n

* New on Project Muse, “The Character of Time in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/i><\/a> ($ paywall), which seems to me relevant to the development of Tolkien’s own thinking on time…<\/p>\n

“Gawain elaborates its own vision of dynamic, social time in its descriptions of time and characters. Through its evasion of teleologies, the poem offers a critique of discourses of inevitability. Gawain complicates an already complex picture of medieval time-schemes”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Talking of Gawain<\/em>, I have acquired a crunchable copy of The Gawain Country<\/em> (1984). I’ll hope to produce an expanded free edition soon, which will include the author’s later follow-on essays.<\/p>\n

* A links-listing of Columbia University undergraduate prizes<\/a> for 2024 dissertations. Note the list includes “The Enduring Impact of World War I in the Works and Lives of Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis, and on British Society between the World Wars”. Freely available online in PDF.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien’s great nephew, Tim Tolkien<\/a>… “will be sculpting a life-size statue of Cardinal John Henry Newman for Birmingham’s Cofton Park.” I’m fairly sure the article is a little misleading, in casually saying Newman was buried at the “Birmingham Oratory”. So far as I know his grave is still out at Rednal in the Lickey Hills, in the grounds of the Oratory’s Retreat House (which Tolkien knew well as a boy).<\/p>\n

* And finally, a fantasy fan<\/a>. No, really… Gustave Dore’s vision of butterfly-riding cherubs vs. dragon-riding demons, painted on a ladies’ flutter-fan. Now at the Fan Museum in London.<\/p>\n

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