{"id":6901,"date":"2019-05-12T05:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T04:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2019-05-12T05:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T04:11:37","slug":"tolkiens-worlds-the-places-that-inspired-the-writers-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2019\/05\/12\/tolkiens-worlds-the-places-that-inspired-the-writers-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien’s Worlds: The Places That Inspired the Writer’s Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Announced and on Amazon UK now, a new book-length survey of Tolkien’s places. It’ll be by John Garth, with the cooperation of the Tolkien estate. We’re going to have to wait a bit for it to appear, though, as Princeton University Press won’t be publishing Tolkien’s Worlds: The Places That Inspired the Writer’s Imagination<\/a><\/em> until 17th March 2020<\/strike> June 2020. <\/p>\n

If every place in his life were to be covered then that’s a lot<\/em> of ground to cover, and at just 192 pages (inc. pictures, bibliography, index etc) I’d guess the book might then be more of a gazetteer with short precise entries and inset mini-maps. <\/p>\n

But I suspect, from the title, that it’ll just be the places which can be definitely be 100% tied to literary inspiration. In which case I can see how it could be done in the page-count. I guess the book may also be oversize, in which case there would be room to be more expansive. Possibly it’ll be a mix of the two approaches, with an expansive focus on the inspiring places, and a tighter but exhaustive listing of all the others — maybe each with a 1-to-5 ‘probability ranking’ for the various local claims of possible inspiration.<\/p>\n

I assume Princeton University Press will have a crack team of picture researchers on such a prestigious job, so it’ll be interesting to see what they come up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Announced and on Amazon UK now, a new book-length survey of Tolkien’s places. It’ll be by John Garth, with the cooperation of the Tolkien estate. We’re going to have to wait a bit for it to appear, though, as Princeton University Press won’t be publishing Tolkien’s Worlds: The Places That Inspired the Writer’s Imagination until […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901","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=6901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}