{"id":16478,"date":"2024-11-17T21:11:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T21:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16478"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:42:49","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/11\/17\/tolkien-gleanings-248\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #248"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #248<\/p>\n

* Due in a few days from Cambridge University Press, the academic book Theology and the Mythic Sensibility: Human Myth-Making and Divine Creativity<\/a><\/em>. The blurb is short and unhelpful, but a text found elsewhere reveals that Tolkien is discussed. The cover appears to use artwork by Ian Miller.<\/p>\n

* New at The European Conservative<\/em> magazine, the long essay “Swallowed by the Dragon: Monstrous Meanings in Tolkien’s Stories”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Another set of long online lectures in which Rachel Fulton-Brown sets about exploring Tolkien. Her ‘The Forge of Tolkien’ set was previously paywalled, but is now being slowly and freely posted<\/a> to YouTube. This batch of releases includes ‘On Fairy Stories’, ‘Magic Words’, ‘The Olde Speech’, ‘The Voice of Saruman’, and several more. <\/p>\n

* J.R.R. Jokien Essays Vol. I – 2023<\/a><\/em>. A new ebook of essays from the “humorous, sometimes earnest” Jokien with Tolkien<\/em> blog, previously paywalled at Substack\/Patreon. Judging by the titles, I assume the essays are from the “earnest” side of the venture.<\/p>\n

* In the USA, a travelling stage production I don’t think I’d noticed before. Christmas with C.S. Lewis<\/a><\/em> is… “set during a 1962 visit to Lewis by holidaying Americans”. Judging by the blurb it also has flashbacks featuring Tolkien.<\/p>\n

* The latest open-access Journal for Religion, Film and Media<\/em> is themed around ‘Escaping the Moment: Time Travel as a Negotiation of Transcendence’<\/a> (November 2024). The issue also has a call-for-papers for a future issue on ‘Death, Loss and Mourning in Film and Media’.<\/p>\n

* Seemingly newly ingested at The Free Library, a full-text run of the journal Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature<\/a><\/em> (1997-2024). Has a couple of Tolkien and Lewis articles.<\/p>\n

* And finally, a new and pleasing page of hobbit penmanship from MatejCadil, “Oliphaunt”<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #248 * Due in a few days from Cambridge University Press, the academic book Theology and the Mythic Sensibility: Human Myth-Making and Divine Creativity. The blurb is short and unhelpful, but a text found elsewhere reveals that Tolkien is discussed. The cover appears to use artwork by Ian Miller. * New at 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-16478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16478","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=16478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18043,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16478\/revisions\/18043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}