{"id":17306,"date":"2025-03-25T19:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17306"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:14:54","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/03\/25\/tolkien-gleanings-293\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #293"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #293<\/p>\n

* The Bodleian Library shares a glimpse of Tolkien’s annotated fold-out map<\/a> from the first-edition of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<\/p>\n

* Up for auction in 2014, with good photos still online, a 1961 Tolkien letter<\/a> hand-written as a reply to a boy who had enjoyed The Hobbit<\/em>. Tolkien writes back that he regrets… “there is not much fun in” The Lord of the Rings<\/em> for the young boy, other than perhaps Bilbo’s birthday chapter.<\/p>\n

* In the new academic book Vikings, Knights, Elves, and Ogres: Essays in Honor of Shaun F.D. Hughes<\/a><\/em> (2025), the chapter “Thoughts on J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s and E.V. Gordon\u2019s ‘Viking Club’ Songbook at Leeds, and Related Nordic Songbooks”.<\/p>\n

* Fanac.org has newly added a PDF scan of Tim Kirk’s 1969 Tolkien Calendar<\/em>, in their Calendars<\/a> section. Pleasing pencil and wash work, though mostly with garish colour overlays added. They welcome donated scans of similar vintage rarities.<\/p>\n

* And talking of entering the mighty gates… currently advertised is the position of Chief Executive Officer of The Tolkien Society<\/a>, on a whopping \u00a345-\u00a355k. Deadline: 13th April 2025.<\/p>\n

* A series of events centred around nature and imagination, running 1st April to 1st May 2025 on the Ile de Re. This being a tourist destination-island in France, half-way down the Atlantic coast and between the cities of Nantes and Bordeaux. Apparently free, and to include public talks, temporary land-art (they have many beaches), exhibitions, concerts and more. The island’s website is currently down, but check iledere.com when online again. As part of the events, note…<\/p>\n

– Conferences and meetings
\n“Tolkien and the science of his imaginary creatures. Paleontologists, naturalists, and illustrators come together to discuss nature and the imaginary.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Mythmoot XII, 19th-22nd June 2025<\/a>, Virginia, USA. The call-for-papers closes on 31st March 2025. The theme is “Drawn to the Edge” — edges, thresholds and edgelands of all sorts, and also the allure of such things.<\/p>\n

* And finally, a new Tolkien sculpture in East Yorkshire<\/a> in northern England, part of their Tolkien Triangle<\/a>…<\/p>\n

“One statue will show the young Tolkien standing in the woods and will be around eight-and-a-half feet high [in carved wood], while the second installation, beside it, will depict Edith dancing in silhouette etched into a thick oak slab.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Due to be installed on-site and officially unveiled later in the spring of 2025. It sounds like they have ambitions to create a larger Tolkien sculpture-trail in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #293 * The Bodleian Library shares a glimpse of Tolkien’s annotated fold-out map from the first-edition of The Lord of the Rings. * Up for auction in 2014, with good photos still online, a 1961 Tolkien letter hand-written as a reply to a boy who had enjoyed The Hobbit. Tolkien writes back that […]<\/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-17306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17306","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=17306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17991,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17306\/revisions\/17991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}