{"id":16799,"date":"2025-01-14T22:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T22:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16799"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:32:45","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/01\/14\/tolkien-gleanings-268\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #268"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #268<\/p>\n

* The BBC archives appear to have dug up a new-to-2025 1962 Tolkien TV interview<\/a>, which is now on YouTube. Worth seeing in video, rather than just downloading the audio, for Tolkien’s facial expressions.<\/p>\n

* Yet another review for Tolkien and the Classical World<\/em>, this time in German in the latest H-Soz-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation fur die Geschichtswissenschaften<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* In The New York Times<\/em> this week, a long retrospective obituary for “Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien\u2019s Middle-earth”<\/a> ($ possible paywall)…<\/p>\n

“When she called Houghton Mifflin to pitch her idea [for a book of hand-drawn maps], Fonstad was connected with Tolkien\u2019s U.S. editor, Anne Barrett, who was semi-retired but happened to be visiting the office that day. Barrett so loved the concept that she secured permission from the Tolkien estate within days.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* The HOTA Gallery on Australia’s Gold Coast will host “Writers Revealed: Treasures from the British Library and National Portrait Gallery”, opening 12th April 2025. The exhibition will include a number of Tolkien letters… <\/p>\n

“More than 100 rare, remarkable manuscripts, letters and first editions and 70 iconic portraits will be displayed together for the first time. […] including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, William Blake, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, J.R.R. Tolkien […].”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* On Archive.org as a .PDF download, The Little City<\/a><\/em> (1911) by Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890-1952), who was Tolkien’s friend and contemporary. Edwardian poems of faery, Oxford and the Cotswolds, evocations of nature and skyscapes, and ballads. <\/p>\n

* And finally, ‘The Gawain<\/em> Country’<\/a> as pictured in a great many old postcards. Many newly coloured.<\/p>\n

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A Wetton trackway in winter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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