{"id":16864,"date":"2025-01-17T19:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T19:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16864"},"modified":"2025-01-17T19:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T19:57:02","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/01\/17\/tolkien-gleanings-269\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #269"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #269<\/p>\n

* In The Malvern Gazette<\/em> newspaper, “Letters from Tolkien and Milne found in Malvern attic”<\/a>. Postcards from Tolkien on marketing-related matters, by the sound of it, though perhaps they’re still important for being from a special moment in history. Since the discoverer says… “The Tolkien postcards must have been there since 1957, as my dad’s firm handled the launch of Lord of the Rings<\/em>.” Apparently, all the items together fetched a total of \u00a3120,000 at auction. It just goes to show that original items can still be found still lurking in lofts, even today. <\/p>\n

* I think I missed this one, back at the end of October 2024. On YouTube, “Reading Tolkien for 70 Years | Interview with Verlyn Flieger”<\/a>, the venerable Tolkien scholar.<\/p>\n

* Now available, the first article for the latest rolling issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research<\/em>, “The English and the Welsh: Tolkien\u2019s Rewriting of History in the Legendarium”<\/a>. The author finds “analogs of the Welsh” in Middle-earth, pointing most plausibly to the… “Rohirrim\u2019s relations with the Dunlendings”. Also makes the interesting point in passing that in the mines of the Blue Mountains… “Tolkien put the[se] coal mines in the same direction [from the Shire] as the Welsh mines of his youth”. Birmingham in relation to North Wales, then. Yes, that also seems plausible.<\/p>\n

* Forthcoming in French, a two-author academic book Tolkien et la memoire de l’antiquite<\/em> (‘Tolkien and the memory of antiquity’). Set for 4th April 2025. No further details at present.<\/p>\n

* New from Scriblus<\/em>, an 8,000-word fan article on the “Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series (1969-74): An Introduction”<\/a>. This was a large series of affordable U.S. paperbacks. The titles were largely drawn from the wealth of out-of-print fantasy titles, with the addition of the Dunsanian ‘Dreamlands’ tales of H.P. Lovecraft. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* And finally, the announcement from Germany of new official commercial Lord of the Rings<\/em> costumes<\/a>… <\/p>\n

“Burgschneider, the leading medieval and fantasy costume maker, is excited to announce a landmark partnership with Middle-earth Enterprises [to] create a range of meticulously crafted costumes [from Gondor, Rohan and the Shire]. The collaboration will also launch fully immersive LARP events set in Middle-earth […] The first collection of officially licensed costumes is slated to release Fall 2025”. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Germany appears to have an extremely healthy Middle-earth cos-play scene, including vast role-play festivals, and so (I’m guessing) presumably the LARP events will be run first in Germany? The announcement made me think there might be an unofficial fannish ‘Middle-earth Pattern Set’ for a full range of home-made costumes, but I don’t immediately see one via search. Perhaps there should be one, for those who want to DIY?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #269 * In The Malvern Gazette newspaper, “Letters from Tolkien and Milne found in Malvern attic”. Postcards from Tolkien on marketing-related matters, by the sound of it, though perhaps they’re still important for being from a special moment in history. Since the discoverer says… “The Tolkien postcards must have been there since 1957, […]<\/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-16864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864","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=16864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}