{"id":18532,"date":"2025-11-10T19:33:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18532"},"modified":"2025-11-11T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:08:22","slug":"tolkien-gleanings-356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/11\/10\/tolkien-gleanings-356\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Gleanings #356"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings<\/a> #356<\/p>\n

* From Germany and mostly in German, the $ paywall book Eine Kleine Geschichte der Orks: Der monstrose feind im wandel der zeit<\/a><\/em> (2024) (‘A Little History of the Orcs: the monstrous enemy through the ages’). Eleven chapters including, in English, Thomas Honegger’s “From Old English orcneas<\/em> to George MacDonald\u2019s Goblins with Soft Feet: Sources of Inspiration and Models for Tolkien\u2019s Orcs from English Literature”. A key example of the “Old English” of the title is found in Beowulf<\/em><\/a> (c. 710 A.D), which talks of… “eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas”<\/em> (‘thence awoke all evil offspring, ettins and elf and orcs, also giants’).<\/p>\n

* In Portuguese, the book J.R.R. Tolkien: construtor de mundos. Personagens, lugares e adaptacoes. Vol 1.<\/a><\/em> (2023). This is officially freely available online. Chapter titles in English translation…<\/p>\n

   – Tolkien and the ring myth.
\n   – Sauron and his many names.
\n   – Beorn.
\n   – Boromir, an imperfect hero.
\n   – Aragorn and Anduril: The representation of the hero and the medieval sword.
\n   – Orcs and evil.
\n   – Dwarves and Elves: Between stones and Norse gods.
\n   – Through Rivers and Forests: Norse mythological geography.
\n   – The Mountains and Kingdoms Beneath Them.
\n   – Adaptations: recreating Tolkien for the cinema.<\/p>\n

* A student paper from Marquette University, “Faramir’s Quality: how Faramir is influenced by and embodies the theme of hope in The Lord of the Rings”<\/em><\/a> (2025). Freely available online.<\/p>\n

* A new open Reddit attempt to track down all Silmarillion<\/em> references and allusions in LoTR<\/em><\/a>. Offhand I don’t recall any other attempt to do this. I’ve checked the Reader’s Companion<\/em> book (i.e. the annotated LoTR<\/em>) just now, but that only has the general index, offering about 30 page numbers under the heading of Silmarillion<\/em> (book).<\/p>\n

* The Angmar Archives<\/em> podcast has a long interview<\/a> with the maker of the new artbook Doomed To Die: An A-Z of Death in Tolkien<\/em>. Freely available on YouTube.<\/p>\n

* New to me, Tolkien’s hobbit poem “Oliphaunt” was issued as a standalone children’s picturebook in 1989, of the “stiff boards, for small kids who might tear normal paper” type of picturebook.<\/p>\n

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* And finally, talking of near-mythical animals… news of rare big-screen outings for the extended Director’s Cut of the LoTR<\/em> movies. The “special one-night-only event will feature the remastered extended edition” of Fellowship<\/a><\/em>, then Two Towers<\/a><\/em> and Return of the King<\/a><\/em>. All in early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien Gleanings #356 * From Germany and mostly in German, the $ paywall book Eine Kleine Geschichte der Orks: Der monstrose feind im wandel der zeit (2024) (‘A Little History of the Orcs: the monstrous enemy through the ages’). Eleven chapters including, in English, Thomas Honegger’s “From Old English orcneas to George MacDonald\u2019s Goblins with […]<\/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-18532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532","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=18532"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18542,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532\/revisions\/18542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}