{"id":17258,"date":"2025-03-20T21:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17258"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:16:50","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-290","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/03\/20\/tolkien-gleanings-290\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #290"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #290<\/p>\n

* Officially announced by the Faculty of English at Oxford, the death of Professor Vincent Gillespie, FBA<\/a> who was… “the emeritus J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language”.<\/p>\n

* Now online, the official announcement for the 2025 J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture in Fantasy Literature<\/a> in Oxford. Booking details, plus the statement that… “For anyone who cannot make the event, it will be recorded and uploaded to our website and YouTube channel after the event.”<\/p>\n

* New on YouTube, a Zoom recording of an online Tolkien colloquium: ‘Good and Evil in Middle-earth’<\/a> (March 2025). Part of the ‘Moral Values in Fantasy Literature’ project, University of Notra, Slovakia.<\/p>\n

* Also new on YouTube, Holly Ordway for ‘The Great Thinkers’ introductory podcast series, on “Who was Tolkien? His Life and Ideas”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The Two Towers<\/em> in Mongolian<\/a>, a translation due to be published at the end of March 2025. The Hobbit<\/em> and Fellowship<\/em> have already been published in Mongolia, in the same series. I’d imagine that the horse-lords of the Rohirrim will resonate with many Mongolian readers.<\/p>\n

* Tolkien in Dorset. Newly launched for summer 2025, a… “Writers\u2019 Trail map: Follow in the footsteps of some of the UK\u2019s best-loved writers and discover the landscapes that influenced them, including […] J.R.R. Tolkien …”. One would have thought Lyme Regis, the coastal resort where Tolkien spent three holidays as a boy, and where he later returned with his own family. But no, it’s “Bournemouth East Cliff”.<\/p>\n

* At the Evesham Festival of Words<\/a> this weekend… “a 20-mile bike ride learning about the area’s connections to writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien and William Morris”.<\/p>\n

* New online and free, at the Ordnance Survey Maps Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952<\/a> website, ‘OS Maps 1900s Text Search’ of text on maps, and a set of ‘Town Plans, 1920-34’. The latter including Oxford and Leeds. Possibly useful for researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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