{"id":6848,"date":"2019-05-05T16:15:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2019-05-05T16:15:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T15:15:43","slug":"tolkien-time-and-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2019\/05\/05\/tolkien-time-and-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien, time and stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Smol usefully rounds up the papers set to be presented <a href=\"https:\/\/annasmol.net\/2019\/05\/04\/tolkien-at-kalamazoo-2019\/\">Tolkien at Kalamazoo 2019<\/a>.  Of interest to me, re: my forthcoming book, and being noted here for my future reference (I&#8217;ll see if I can find open access versions in nine months or so) are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* Two on time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of Niggle and Ringwraiths: Tolkien on Time and Eternity as the Deepest Stratum of His Work&#8221;. Robert Dobie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Eschatological Catholic: J. R. R. Tolkien and a Multi-Modal Temporality&#8221;. Stephen Yandell.<\/p>\n<p>* Three on stars&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who maketh Morwinyon, and Menelmacar, and Remmirath, and the inner parts of the south (where the stars are strange): Tolkien\u2019s Astronomical Choices and the Books of Job and Amos.&#8221; Kristine Larsen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;It Lies Behind the Stars&#8217;: Situating Tolkien\u2019s Work within the Aesthetics of Medieval Cosmology&#8221;. Connie Tate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cynewulf, Copernicus, and Conjunctions: The Problem of Cytherean Motions  in Tolkien\u2019s Medieval Cosmology&#8221;. Kristine Larsen.<\/p>\n<p>* And one of personal hobbit-ish interest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Queer Hobbits: Language for the Strange, the Odd, and the Peculiar in Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings. Yvette Kisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Smol usefully rounds up the papers set to be presented Tolkien at Kalamazoo 2019. Of interest to me, re: my forthcoming book, and being noted here for my future reference (I&#8217;ll see if I can find open access versions in nine months or so) are&#8230; * Two on time&#8230; &#8220;Of Niggle and Ringwraiths: Tolkien [&hellip;]<\/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-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","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=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}