{"id":16773,"date":"2025-01-10T22:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T22:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16773"},"modified":"2025-01-10T22:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T22:23:28","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/01\/10\/tolkien-gleanings-266\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #266"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #266<\/p>\n

* In English in the latest 2024 edition of the Transylvanian journal Revista Philobiblon<\/em>, “‘We were talking of dragons, Tolkien and I’: The Symbolism Of The Dragon in J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s and C.S. Lewis\u2019s Fairy Stories”<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* The forthcoming academic collection Dragons in Fairy Tales<\/a><\/em> has a 20th January 2025 deadline for chapter abstracts. There are still four or five slots available in the book.<\/p>\n

* Set for 2025 from academic publisher Palgrave, the book J.R.R. Tolkien and G.B. Smith: A Special Relationship<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* Due in 2025, the book The High Hallow: Tolkien\u2019s Liturgical Imagination<\/a><\/em> which… “shows how the plots, themes, and characters of Tolkien\u2019s beloved works can be traced to the patterns of the Church\u2019s liturgical year.”<\/p>\n

* Also due in 2025, from the University of Chicago Press, the book Chasing the Pearl-manuscript<\/a><\/em>. This will draw… “on recent technological advances (such as spectroscopic analysis) to show the Pearl<\/em>-manuscript to be a more complex piece of material, visual, and textual art than previously understood”.<\/p>\n

* Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2025: ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’<\/a>, which would appear to be relevant to topics related to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* Taruithorn (the Oxford Tolkien Society, a student society at the University of Oxford since 1990) has announced plans to revive its journal Miruvor<\/em><\/a>… “We are looking for contributions! If you would like to write or create anything inspired by Tolkien, please feel free to contact us!” I assume contributors will need to be a student or perhaps have some connection with the University. The last issue of the earlier run of Miruvor<\/em> appeared in 2016<\/a>. Back issues can be had here<\/a> from 1990-2004, as PDFs for open download.<\/p>\n

* Signum University now has the March 2025 online short-courses<\/a> listed. Learn a language in ‘Beginning Quenya’ (two parts); or study ‘The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Mature Years 1 (Volume 2: The Years 1919-1931)’ (three parts); or dive into ‘Tolkien and the Sea’. Some are ‘candidate courses’, meaning they only run if enough people sign up for them. <\/p>\n

* And finally, some Gleanings<\/em> readers will have a number of Amazon WishLists with substantial user comments appended. But you’ll likely find that some useless tea-boy at Amazon has tinkered with your WishList comments, making them miniscule and also hiding more than the first line of text. So, here’s a useful free UserScript for your Web browser, ‘Amazon Wishlist item user-comments \/ user-notes – fix’<\/a>. This should fix this new problem. Requires TamperMonkey or similar, to run UserScripts on Web pages. You’re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #266 * In English in the latest 2024 edition of the Transylvanian journal Revista Philobiblon, “‘We were talking of dragons, Tolkien and I’: The Symbolism Of The Dragon in J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s and C.S. Lewis\u2019s Fairy Stories”. Freely available online. * The forthcoming academic collection Dragons in Fairy Tales has a 20th January 2025 […]<\/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-16773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773","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=16773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}