{"id":17784,"date":"2025-08-08T20:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17784"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:04:28","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/08\/08\/tolkien-gleanings-317\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #317"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #317<\/p>\n

* A substantial-looking scholarly slate of speakers<\/a>, set to give talks at the Tolkien Fest 2025 in Malta. The page has details of the talks, and the dates are 22nd-24th August 2025.<\/p>\n

* This week Word on Fire<\/em> taps into Tolkien to find “Hope for the Humanities”<\/a> in academia.<\/p>\n

* Signum University now has listings for its September<\/a> and October 2025<\/a> online short-courses. Including: The Poetic Corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Later Poems 1 (Volume 3: 1931-1967); Creative Quenya Translation; Exploring Tolkien\u2019s “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”; and The Poetry of The Lord of the Rings<\/em> (Book I), among others.<\/p>\n

* New on YouTube from the East Yorkshire tourist-board, “Walking in Tolkien\u2019s footsteps: East Yorkshire\u2019s latest tribute”<\/a>. Three minutes and well-edited.<\/p>\n

* New on CivitAI, a free plugin (LoRA) which guides the SDXL local AI image-generator towards a particular style. The Manuscript Drolleries LoRA<\/a> allows you to make images from text prompts aimed at generating… “grotesques, drolleries, marginalia and doodles [as if] from illuminated manuscripts”. Note however that CivitAI, the main AI creative models hub, is now effectively banned in the UK. Brits can still reach it if we have a VPN but, given the size of the downloads involved in AI (7Gb is usual for a single SDXL model), a VPN is not ideal. Sadly, very few models or LoRAs are put on torrents.<\/p>\n

* And finally, that rare edition of The Hobbit<\/em> which was discovered near Bristol, as mentioned in a previous Gleanings<\/em>? It has been sold for \u00a343,000<\/a>. Which is around $57,000 U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #317 * A substantial-looking scholarly slate of speakers, set to give talks at the Tolkien Fest 2025 in Malta. The page has details of the talks, and the dates are 22nd-24th August 2025. * This week Word on Fire taps into Tolkien to find “Hope for the Humanities” in academia. * Signum University […]<\/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-17784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784","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=17784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17969,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions\/17969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}