{"id":16497,"date":"2024-11-25T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16497"},"modified":"2024-11-25T19:22:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:22:58","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2024\/11\/25\/tolkien-gleanings-250\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #250"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #250<\/p>\n

* Now online, four presentations from Doxamoot 2024. Freely downloadable in .MP3 format are…<\/p>\n

   – “‘Like Rain on the Mountain’: Theodoric, Beowulf, Theoden, and Tolkien’s Elegy for Northern Courage”<\/a>. <\/p>\n

   – “Pentecost at the Stone of Erech: Oathbreakers and Covenant Keepers in the Legendarium”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

   – “‘We heard of the horns in the hills ringing’: Musical memory of the Rohirrim in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings<\/em>“<\/a>.<\/p>\n

   – “Love\u2019s Obligation: Deceit and Truth: The Divide Between Virtue and Vice in Tolkien”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* A new podcast interview with Graham McAleer, author of Tolkien, Philosopher of War<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Gleanings<\/em> previously noted the latest issue of the open-access Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research<\/em>, with its lead article “Hautaamistavat J.R.R. Tolkienin fantasiafiktiossa”<\/a> (‘Burial customs in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy fiction’). Yet I overlooked the same issue’s review of Nole Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien<\/em><\/a>. Also note that Fafnir<\/em> editors have a new call-for-papers for the June 2025 issue<\/a>, published a month or so ago with a submission deadline of 31st December 2024.<\/p>\n

* A call-for papers for the two-day conference “C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien: The Promise of Christian Fairytales”<\/a>, set for California in August 2025. Deadline is 15th March 2025. <\/p>\n

* A new 2024 issue of the open-access Journal of Gods and Monsters<\/a><\/em>. No Tolkien, but it may interest some.<\/p>\n

* The BARS Review<\/em> has a call for contributors<\/a> and can supply review copies of The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/em>, and Romanticism and Speculative Realism<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n

* A call for book chapters, for From Desolation to Idyllic Habitations: Exploring the Landscapes of Dragons in Literature, Film, and Pop Culture<\/em><\/a>. A deadline of 20th December 2024, for what looks like a 2026 book. <\/p>\n

* A new review<\/a> in Spanish of the book Tolkien revisitado: 50 anos despues de su viaje a Valinor<\/em> (2024) (‘Tolkien Revisited: 50 years after his journey to Valinor’), in the latest edition of the open-access journal Doxa Comunicacion<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* And finally, The People Under the Hill<\/a><\/em> is a series of alternative history novels. This month has seen the release of the second book, Tolkien and The Dangerous Truth<\/em>. The covers have abysmal typography but the blurb makes it sound like a lot of erudite and contrarian fun, beginning with… “What if Tolkien’s Oxford Dictionary<\/em> work during the summer of 1919 were only a cover story?” Anyway, it’s a substantial new ‘Tolkien as character’ novel and there’s a 10% free preview for Kindle ebooks. So have a look for yourself. [Update: I’ve now read and enjoyed the first novel in the series, and have high hopes for this second novel].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #250 * Now online, four presentations from Doxamoot 2024. Freely downloadable in .MP3 format are…    – “‘Like Rain on the Mountain’: Theodoric, Beowulf, Theoden, and Tolkien’s Elegy for Northern Courage”.    – “Pentecost at the Stone of Erech: Oathbreakers and Covenant Keepers in the Legendarium”.    – “‘We heard of the horns in the hills […]<\/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-16497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497","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=16497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}