{"id":17579,"date":"2025-05-27T18:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T17:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17579"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:09:59","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-305","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/05\/27\/tolkien-gleanings-305\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #305"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #305<\/p>\n

* The YouTube channel for Uppsala Books<\/a> has scheduled a number of Tom Shippey talks. Talking of Tom Shippey, I see a French translation ‘pocket-book’ edition of his J.R.R. Tolkien, auteur du siecle<\/em> (‘Author of the Century’). This is due to ship on 20th August 2025, from Bragelonne.<\/p>\n

* Sotheby\u2019s Books & Manuscripts division has newly published a short “Guide to Identifying J.R.R. Tolkien First Editions”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* In the latest Imaginative Conservative<\/em>, Bradley J. Birzer on “Ascending to the Seven Virtues of J.R.R. Tolkien”<\/a>. Not a reprint article, as they often are, but the text of a speech given at a 2025 graduation event. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* In the latest Lutheran Quarterly<\/em>, a journal which appears to have newly switched to open-access, a review of The Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien: Mythopoeia and the Recovery of Creation<\/em><\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* A Masters dissertation for The University of British Columbia, “Death as a gift: a heroic celebration of life in The Lord of the Rings”<\/em><\/a> (2024), which examines… “perceptions of death among Men” and “argues that Men\u2019s contrasting attitudes toward Iluvatar\u2019s Gift — acceptance exemplified by Theoden’s heroic death and rejection by Denethor’s despair — result in divergent outcomes of glory versus disgrace.” Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* A new Masters dissertation for Liberty University, “Apologetics and Storytelling in The Lord of the Rings”<\/em><\/a> (2025). Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* Dimitra Fimi’s blog has posted her “Reflections on Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales”<\/em><\/a>. This being the text of her… “talk at Oxonmoot 2021 … this is the first time I am sharing the full written text”.<\/p>\n

* New on Archive.org, the German shareware collection CD Pegasus 4.0<\/a><\/em> (1993). Those were the days when you could fit hundreds of early computer games on one CD. Includes… <\/p>\n

Lotrdemo.zip | 23-12-93 | A shareware demo of the adventure game based on Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Good graphics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* New on the Renderosity store, and intended for use with the free DAZ Studio desktop software, the royalty-free 3D poseable figure Father Mushroom<\/a>. I’d say this could provide a good starting-point for crafting a Tom Bombadil figure in 3D, given a bit of tweaking and new accessories. Though the figure separately has a pack of… “high boots, wide trousers, shirt and belt” included.<\/p>\n

* A current call-for-papers… <\/p>\n

“Are you working on any aspect of folklore and want to publish your research as a short book of 20-30k words? The new Cambridge University Press series ‘Elements in Folklore’ is now seeking proposals. [… Should be] briefer than a monograph but longer than an article, Elements will offer scholars the opportunity to explore subjects that might otherwise be neglected. […] Please email me<\/a> if you’d like a proposal form.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* And finally… the long-running British Fairies<\/em> blog has a new article on “The Spirits of the Forest — faeries, dryads & sprites”<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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