{"id":16882,"date":"2025-01-20T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16882"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:31:01","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-270","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/01\/20\/tolkien-gleanings-270\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #270"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #270<\/p>\n

* A new short post from The Catholic University of America, on “Robert T. Meyer: ‘Bespectacled Linguist’ and Friend of J.R.R. Tolkien”<\/a>. Includes a link to the 22-box Robert T. Meyer Collection, which has the text of a past lecture reminiscing about Tolkien…<\/p>\n

* The Tolkien Society has posted the contents-list for the forthcoming book Proceedings of the Tolkien 2019 Conference<\/em><\/a> in Birmingham. Due to be published as an affordable \u00a39 ebook<\/a> on 28th February 2025. I spotted, among many others…<\/p>\n

   — Tolkien\u2019s Birmingham.
\n   — J.R.R. Tolkien and R.S.S. Baden-Powell.
\n   — On the Trail of the young Tolkien in Sussex.
\n   — The Dim Echo of the Catcher [presumably about Nuada?].
\n   — Knife, Sting, and Tooth: The Lasting Effects of Frodo\u2019s Wounds.
\n   — Clothing in Tolkien\u2019s World and What Can Be Seen through its Analysis.<\/p>\n

* The Tolkien Society has released another batch of videos, free on YouTube. Among others, these include “Collecting, Reading and Studying Tolkien\u2019s Letters”<\/a> and “Where Tolkien is Remembered: Sites of Memory in the UK”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* In Spanish, the YouTube recording of a 2023 Madrid conference on Geologia en la literatura fantastica y de terror<\/a> (‘Geology in fantasy and horror literature’). <\/p>\n

* The Silver Key<\/em> finishes “Blogging the Silmarillion”<\/em><\/a> and now has all the essays hyperlinked from one page.<\/p>\n

* Lynn Forest-Hill blogs that<\/a>… “my revised translation of the 14th century version of Sir Bevis of Hampton<\/em> is approaching the galley-proof stage.” She sees the back-of-the-book indexing, which it seems the publisher is foisting on authors, as a sticking point. I might tell her that indexing can now be automated with the desktop PC software PDF Index Generator 3.4<\/a>. Very useful, even if one only indexes places and names and adds less obvious items later. Use: search “capitalized phrases only”, then weed the results, then run the filter for a \u201csurnames, forenames\u201d switch-over. I see this worthy software is still $70 in early 2025, with a free perpetual ‘trial version’ available (limited to the first 10 pages of a PDF). Runs on Windows, Mac or Linux.<\/p>\n

* “Ballantine Adult Fantasy: A Reading Series”<\/a>, another part of an emerging… “essay series [that] will take years to complete”. This will involve reading and discussing all the works in the huge series.<\/p>\n

* And finally, do you offer your students fantasy literature in the classroom? Then the “Teaching With Magic”<\/a> online survey would like to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #270 * A new short post from The Catholic University of America, on “Robert T. Meyer: ‘Bespectacled Linguist’ and Friend of J.R.R. Tolkien”. Includes a link to the 22-box Robert T. Meyer Collection, which has the text of a past lecture reminiscing about Tolkien… * The Tolkien Society has posted the contents-list for […]<\/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-16882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882","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=16882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18019,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882\/revisions\/18019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}