{"id":17470,"date":"2025-05-03T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17470"},"modified":"2025-05-03T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:06:25","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/05\/03\/tolkien-gleanings-301\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #301"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #301<\/p>\n

* The Art of Mercy in Middle-earth: Paintings Inspired by Tolkien\u2019s Legendarium<\/a><\/em> is a new Tolkien-inspired artbook from Miriam Ellis<\/a>. Available now in paperback or hardback.<\/p>\n

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* Newly added to the current rolling issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research<\/em>, “Slavic influences in the Soviet adaptation of Fellowship”<\/em><\/a>. This relates to the Leningrad TV 1991 attempt at a TV adaptation…. “This paper aims to explore how what the Western viewers may find ridiculous about the depiction of the characters actually stems from the film-makers being inspired by traditional Slavic imagery and folklore.” <\/p>\n

* In the new ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews<\/em>, “Inkling \u2018Hint, Intimation, Suggestion\u2019”<\/a> ($ paywall, but first page free as a page-image). This examines the history of the word ‘inkling’ from its earliest surviving use in a tale of Alexander.<\/p>\n

* “Fantasy and Faith: Lewis and Tolkien on Magic in Fantastical Literature”<\/a> (2025), a final-year undergraduate dissertation for Liberty University. Freely available for download.<\/p>\n

* A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry<\/em> blog has a long essay on Magic in Middle-earth<\/a> and the various forms it takes (or might take, since some of it is only hinted at).<\/p>\n

* The book The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933\u20131945<\/a><\/em> is now seemingly set for publication on 17th July 2025, at least according to Amazon UK which is taking pre-orders for it.<\/p>\n

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* Tickets are now available for the 2025 J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture in Fantasy Literature<\/a> in Oxford, on 19th May 2025. Also, a new series of Oxford University Tolkien lectures will start in Oxford in May 2025 and will include “Tolkien and Arthurian Romance: The Interlace Structure of The Lord of the Rings”<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n

* The Christian History Institute on “The Oxford Lewis Knew”<\/a>, a new review of the sumptuous book C.S. Lewis\u2019s Oxford<\/em> (2024). The review is freely available online.<\/p>\n

* And finally… new on Archive.org is a sampling of Wizards And Demons: Music Inspired By The Writings Of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a><\/em>, plus scans of the cover and booklet with its musicological essay. A highly curated collection of rare 1960s and 70s ‘progressive rock’ tracks inspired by Tolkien, the full CD is still available<\/a>. ‘Prog rock’ is very much an acquired taste these days, so listen to the samples before ordering.<\/p>\n

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Tolkien Gleanings #301 * The Art of Mercy in Middle-earth: Paintings Inspired by Tolkien\u2019s Legendarium is a new Tolkien-inspired artbook from Miriam Ellis. Available now in paperback or hardback. * Newly added to the current rolling issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research, “Slavic influences in the Soviet adaptation of Fellowship”. This relates to the […]<\/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-17470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470","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=17470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}