{"id":16120,"date":"2024-08-29T15:44:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16120"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:50:30","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/08\/29\/tolkien-gleanings-232\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #232"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #232<\/p>\n

* OzMoot 2025<\/a> is set for 24th-26th January 2025, in Australia and online ($35 ticket for online). The organisers now have a theme, ‘The Music of Words: Language, Poetry, and Music in Tolkien\u2019s Works’. The deadline for proposals is 24th December 2024.<\/p>\n

* The Welsh nationalist online publication Nation.Cymru<\/em> has a book review of the new Yr Hobyd<\/em><\/a>, the new Welsh translation of The Hobbit<\/em>. The review is freely available online (in English), and the reviewer notes that various Welsh dialects are used to aid the characterisation.<\/p>\n

* CNews<\/em> has an interview in French with Vincent Ferre<\/a>, about the huge new table-trembling edition of the Dictionnaire Tolkien<\/em>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* A new official free-sample<\/a> for Drout’s Tolkien and the West<\/a><\/em> five-hour audiobook (2012) which in the UK is currently \u00a314 or free to Amazon’s Audible subscribers.<\/p>\n

* A PDF with the full programme<\/a> for ‘The Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference’ in September 2024. The first day will offer some Tolkien-related papers and talks. The conference will also see a stage performance of The Baptized Imagination: Lewis & Tolkien<\/em>, produced by George Fox University theatre lecturer Ben Tissell.<\/p>\n

* Now recorded and online at YouTube, the latest FACTS<\/em> podcast with guest Holly Ordway<\/a>, discussing Tolkien’s Faith<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* The latest issue of Leicester University’s Luminary<\/em> open-access undergraduate journal is Issue 6: ‘Locating Fantastika’<\/a>. Among others, the article “Palimpsestic and Abject Faerie Spaces and Species” explores two pre-Tolkien British depictions of mortals who trespass into faerie places. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* The UK’s ImagineFX<\/em> magazine (November 2024 issue) has a four-page ‘making of’ feature, showing the cover art for the new LoTR<\/em>-based tabletop role-playing game. The game gives the popular Dungeons & Dragons<\/em> 5e RPG playing system a thorough LoTR<\/em> makeover. Clueless newbs such as myself would also need the key D&D Player\u2019s Handbook<\/em>, as there\u2019s said to be a lot of basic D&D<\/em> combat knowledge being assumed. <\/p>\n

* The UK’s annual Heritage Open Days this year includes Exeter College<\/a>, Oxford, with their date being Sunday 15th September 2024. No pre-booking required, but I imagine that getting in the queue early might be advisable. Note also that, around the corner, “The Bodleian\u2019s letterpress printing workshop will be open for drop-in printing”. There may be even more open and free in Oxford on that day, if you look. <\/p>\n

* And finally, the new free open-source AI image-generator Flux can generate images that use distinctive handwriting styles. Of course, someone quickly created a free ‘Flux Tolkien Handwriting’<\/a> style-guidance plug-in (a ‘LORA’) for it. This now appears to have been taken down, but some of the sample images are still available to prove that it can be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #232 * OzMoot 2025 is set for 24th-26th January 2025, in Australia and online ($35 ticket for online). The organisers now have a theme, ‘The Music of Words: Language, Poetry, and Music in Tolkien\u2019s Works’. The deadline for proposals is 24th December 2024. * The Welsh nationalist online publication Nation.Cymru has a book […]<\/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-16120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16120","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=16120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18063,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16120\/revisions\/18063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}