{"id":16900,"date":"2025-01-23T21:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=16900"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:30:11","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/01\/23\/tolkien-gleanings-271\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #271"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #271<\/p>\n

* The Tolkien Society has announced Carl Phelpstead as the Annual Guest Speaker<\/a>. A scholar best known for his book Tolkien and Wales<\/em> (2011).<\/p>\n

* Lingwe<\/em> has posted the new article “J.A.W. Bennett on Tolkien”<\/a>… “Jack Arthur Walter Bennett (1911\u20131981) was a younger and lesser-known member of the Inklings.”<\/p>\n

* The OST Continuing Education podcast has a new interview with Dr. Austin Freeman on Tolkien\u2019s imaginative apologetics<\/a>. Freely available on YouTube.<\/p>\n

* Omnes<\/em> magazine briefly notes that Holly Ordway’s spiritual biography of Tolkien is now available in Spanish translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The Oxford Mail<\/em> local newspaper reports that the city council’s planning committee has finally approved the renovation and re-use of The Eagle and Child in Oxford<\/a>. The pub will re-open as a pub after the extensive work, but will add a new restaurant and a new “study space” linked with a new science campus in Oxford.<\/p>\n

* An Inklings Fellowship gathering in July 2025, An Inklings Week in Oxford<\/a>, to be themed ‘Of Other Worlds: 75 Years of Narnia’.<\/p>\n

* In the last Gleanings<\/em> I mentioned the apparent lack of a repository of sewing-patterns for Middle-earth costumes. I’ve now found the Material Middle-Earth<\/a> website. While I don’t immediately see a pattern repository there, it’s current and obviously the central hub for all things material. Their postings and blogroll may lead those interested in such things as printable pattern-sheets.<\/p>\n

* And finally, in this week’s Country Life<\/em> magazine, an unintended but magnificent evocation of The Shire. In the form of Samuel Palmer’s painting “The Weald” (c. 1833-34).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #271 * The Tolkien Society has announced Carl Phelpstead as the Annual Guest Speaker. A scholar best known for his book Tolkien and Wales (2011). * Lingwe has posted the new article “J.A.W. Bennett on Tolkien”… “Jack Arthur Walter Bennett (1911\u20131981) was a younger and lesser-known member of the Inklings.” * The OST […]<\/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-16900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900","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=16900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18018,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions\/18018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}