{"id":16657,"date":"2025-01-03T14:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T14:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16657"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:37:26","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/01\/03\/tolkien-gleanings-262\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #262"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/category\/tolkien-gleanings\/\">Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #262<\/p>\n<p>* On YouTube, another apparently &#8220;rare audio &#8230; hidden for 50 years&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q3mbbtZ6w0I\">Tolkien sings &#8220;Chips the glasses&#8221;<\/a> from <em>The Hobbit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>* RR Auctions is shortly to sell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finebooksmagazine.com\/fine-books-news\/washington-irving-manuscripts-and-tolkien-presentation-copy-auction\">a Tolkien letter dated 14th May 1955<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tolkien reflects on the anticipated publication of The Return of the King [to] Mrs. L.C. Beckett Frost in Ravello, Italy. He expresses his hope that readers will not be disappointed, comparing his work to Homer&#8217;s epics and discussing the delays caused by his commitment to provide extensive appendices and information.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* The J.R.R. Tolkien Manuscripts collection at Marquette University has posted their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marquette.edu\/library\/archives\/jrrtshowings.php\">2025 dates for free public showings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* A new rolling issue of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.valpo.edu\/journaloftolkienresearch\/\">Journal of Tolkien Research<\/a><\/em> has begun, with a review of <em>Parma Eldalamberon<\/em> #23 (2024). The <em>PE<\/em> issue under review contains Tolkien&#8217;s own texts, his three descriptions of the Feanorian Alphabet, and his five texts on Eldarin Pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>* The latest issue of the open-access journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.rudn.ru\/literary-criticism\/issue\/view\/1820\">RUDN: Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism<\/a><\/em> is a special issue on &#8216;The Magical and Horrible in Literature&#8217;. Has the Russian-language article &#8220;Rhythmic prose in <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>* In <em>The European Conservative<\/em> this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanconservative.com\/articles\/reviews\/rediscovering-our-wordhoard\/\">&#8220;Rediscovering Our Wordhoard&#8221;<\/a>, being a review of the book <em>\u014csweald Bera: An Introduction to Old English<\/em> (2024). The reviewer finds it&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;an exceptional work deserving of swift adoption by universities and independent scholars alike. Gorrie ditches the dry and difficult approach of learning a language&#8217;s rules almost independently of its vocabulary.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* From 2016 and still available to buy, a special edition of the long-running French intellectual journal <em>Europe<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europe-revue.net\/produit\/n-1044-lovecraft-tolkien-avril-2016\/\">No. 1044: Lovecraft &#8211; Tolkien<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien Gleanings #262 * On YouTube, another apparently &#8220;rare audio &#8230; hidden for 50 years&#8221;, Tolkien sings &#8220;Chips the glasses&#8221; from The Hobbit. * RR Auctions is shortly to sell a Tolkien letter dated 14th May 1955&#8230; Tolkien reflects on the anticipated publication of The Return of the King [to] Mrs. L.C. 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