{"id":15970,"date":"2024-08-06T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=15970"},"modified":"2024-08-06T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:22:00","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/08\/06\/tolkien-gleanings-225\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #225"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #225<\/p>\n

* Sessions set for the 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies<\/a>, among others, include: “Fire, Dragons, and Jewels, O My: Medieval Poems and J.R.R. Tolkien”; “Tolkien and Old Norse”; and “Tolkien and Medieval Conceptions of the Sea”. The calls are now online.<\/p>\n

* The Messengers from the Stars<\/em> open-access journal seeks contributions for a special issue<\/a> in 2025 to be themed “‘Getting Medieval’: Fantasy and the Middle Ages”. Deadline: 3rd February 2025.<\/p>\n

* Found, another 10-year embargo dissertation for an Irish B.A. (Hons.) Design for Stage and Screen degree. But different from the one noted in Gleanings<\/em> #224. “The Safe Haven: The depiction of salvation through sanctuary and scenography in The Lord of the Rings”<\/em><\/a> (2014 undergraduate dissertation, released after embargo April 2024). A study of the visual aspects of the archetypal spaces of sanctuary with reference to LoTR<\/em>. Identifies architectural methods that “creatively retain what threatens to disappear”, and considers the presentation of salvation “via ornamentation and embellishment”. Freely available online, and under Creative Commons.<\/p>\n

* The Federalist<\/em> magazine fisks a newspaper journalist who “Completely Botches Lord Of The Rings”<\/em><\/a>… “It is untenable to equate the Ring simply with power. Tolkien did not write a story about why power is evil, but about why domination is evil. To understand Tolkien, it is essential to distinguish between the two.” Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* On YouTube in Italian, “Fear leads to suffering”: myth and hope in the subcreation of J.R.R. Tolkien”<\/a>. A May 2024 conference interview with Eduardo Segura at the University of Granada, Spain.<\/p>\n

* In Brazil and in Brazilian, International Meeting for Mythopoetic Studies: The Lord of the Rings<\/em> – 70 years of The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em><\/a>, a three-day conference held in July 2024. The programme is still freely online as a PDF. The talks included, among others…<\/p>\n

   – From heavenly Jerusalem to Gondolin: hermeneutics of applicability: Tolkieniana as contemplation of celestial realities.<\/p>\n

   – Narrative solutions to editorial problems in The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>.<\/p>\n

   – Pseudotranslation as a creative principle of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

   – How medieval is Middle-earth? Understanding medievalism based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.<\/p>\n

   – What about second breakfast? Food and eating habits of the hobbits in The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* A new set of Tolkien scene paintings by Miriam Ellis<\/a>, posted in July 2024 on DeviantArt.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, an ‘Ink of Ages’ contest<\/a> from the World History Encyclopedia with Oxford University Press. Submit your “historical or mythology-inspired short fiction”, telling a story in English in “under 2,000 words”, by 15th September 2024. Free to enter. No mention of AI assistance being allowed, or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #225 * Sessions set for the 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies, among others, include: “Fire, Dragons, and Jewels, O My: Medieval Poems and J.R.R. Tolkien”; “Tolkien and Old Norse”; and “Tolkien and Medieval Conceptions of the Sea”. The calls are now online. * The Messengers from the Stars open-access journal seeks contributions […]<\/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-15970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970","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=15970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}