{"id":17912,"date":"2025-08-18T20:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=17912"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:59:45","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/08\/18\/tolkien-gleanings-324\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #324"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #324<\/p>\n

* The latest Christianity & Literature<\/em> journal reviews the book Theology and Tolkien: Practical Theology<\/em><\/a> ($ partial paywall, ‘first page free’).<\/p>\n

* An online course, “Reading J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings<\/em> with Professor Michael D.C. Drout”<\/a>, August-November 2025. It started a week ago, but it’s also $400… so I’m guessing you might get a seat if you nip in quickly and wildly wave the cash?<\/p>\n

* Now freely available online, Good Thoughts on Folklore and Mythology, Vol. 1: Folklore<\/a><\/em> and Vol. 2: Mythology<\/a><\/em>. Together, these new books offer a huge “Festschrift in Honour of Terry Gunnell”, Professor of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. Vol. 1 includes “Why Folklorists Should Read Saints’ Lives” and Vol. 2 includes “A Dragon Is No Idle Fancy: Loki’s Spawn and Thor’s Bane”, among many others.<\/p>\n

* Forthcoming before Christmas, Wardrobes and Rings: Through Lenten Lands with the Inklings<\/a><\/em>. Being a short help-book for Christians during Lent, presenting snippets drawn from the writings of the Inklings and their wider circles.<\/p>\n

* An Italian podcast series is reading Tolkien’s letters in order, and doing so in Italian translation. Congratulations to the maker, as the podcast has now reached Lettere 40<\/a>. Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* Here in the UK, Stonyhurst College offers public days dedicated to “The Shire, Sherlock & Shakespeare at Stonyhurst”<\/a>, with small exhibitions and in-person guided tours. Set for 22nd\u201323rd August 2025. <\/p>\n

* And finally, a new map of Beleriand<\/a> from the First Age, made by Starcave on DeviantArt. There’s a free printable version without watermark. Also a version without the labels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #324 * The latest Christianity & Literature journal reviews the book Theology and Tolkien: Practical Theology ($ partial paywall, ‘first page free’). * An online course, “Reading J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Lord of the Rings with Professor Michael D.C. Drout”, August-November 2025. It started a week ago, but it’s also $400… so I’m guessing […]<\/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-17912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912","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=17912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17959,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912\/revisions\/17959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}