{"id":7264,"date":"2019-08-31T06:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T05:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=7264"},"modified":"2019-08-31T06:29:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T05:29:48","slug":"tolkien-2019-programme-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2019\/08\/31\/tolkien-2019-programme-and-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien 2019 Programme and videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Birmingham Tolkien 2019 Programme<\/a>, now online in PDF. <\/p>\n

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It was a roaring success, apparently, other than a slightly cramped venue. Sadly the event was too expensive for me, despite the relative proximity of Stoke-on-Trent to Birmingham. It would have cost at least \u00a3400 to do it properly. But it’s good to see the booklet online and giving an excellent summary with abstracts.<\/p>\n

For my own future reference, talks given at the event and of interest to me:<\/p>\n

* “The Wright Stuff”, Ian Spittlehouse. The influence of Joseph Wright at Oxford. This is “the third in a series re-appraising the work of Joseph Wright and its influence on Tolkien”, so one assumes a book at some point. One might hope also for a substantial appendix that surveys all his other tutors.<\/p>\n

* “The lost connections of Tolkien\u2019s first map of The Lord of the Rings<\/em>: Reconstruction”, Erik Mueller-Harder. Again, one of a three-part series, and one thus assumes these will become a book at some point if the rights can be obtained for the required images.<\/p>\n

* “Rivers of flame and a great reek rising: volcanoes and the horror of the sublime in Tolkien\u2019s Legendarium”, Sian Pehrsson. Not looking in the right places, judging by the abstract, but it sounds interesting.<\/p>\n

* “Blessed trees? The White Trees of Gondor and the Royal Oak compared and contrasted”, Murray Smith. The author admits there’s no real evidence of a linkage, but I can see that it’s a perfectly valid comparison to make given the historical context and Tolkien’s politics.<\/p>\n

* “Forests, Trees, Huorns, and Ents”, Johanne Tournier. Appears to be a broad survey of Tolkien’s close attention to trees in his life and work.<\/p>\n

* “The Shape of Water in Tolkien’s Middle-earth”, Norbert Schurer. Judging by the abstract, ‘water’ is obviously too slippery and vast a topic to grasp all in one go. But the paper could be stimulating.<\/p>\n

* Five or Six Ponies?, Jessica Yates. A small niggling problem in the text of The Lord of the Rings<\/em> re: the journey to the Old Forest, and apparently now with three possible solutions. I like small puzzles like that, not least because they can often inadvertently lead one on to bigger discoveries.<\/p>\n

* A conference report mentions a study of Nodens and how Tolkien might have gone on to work elements of the lore into his Legendarium, though I don’t spot it in the programme booklet.<\/p>\n

I see that the book Tolkien’s Library<\/em> has been published and is rather chunky. The free 10% sample for Kindle readers gives the introduction and the first 90 entries (and curiously, no table-of-contents). There appears to be no dating on the entries re: when read. I assume there’s a date-ordered “book X was read in year Z (or decade Y)” table at the back, so that one can glimpse something of his intellectual progression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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