Mittelerde: Tolkien und die germanische Mythologie<\/em>. That led me to a preview of the Contents page in German on Google Books, which could then be run through Translate thus…<\/p>\n
\n1. J.R.R. Tolkien: The medieval researcher as a novelist<\/p>\n
Tolkien’s life and scientific career
\nThe novelist
\nTolkien and the Old Norse literature
\nThe songs of the Edda and the prose Edda
\nOld Icelandic sagas
\nThe Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus<\/p>\n
2. Geography and geographic names of Middle-earth<\/p>\n
Cosmography and Cartography
\nTolkien’s World: Middle-earth
\nOtherworldly realms
\nWaste lands, wastes
\nMountains and forests
\nWater and sweetbreads
\nLandscapes and parts of the country<\/p>\n
3. Persons of Scandinavian origin<\/p>\n
Dwarfs (dwarves) in the Edda and Tolkien
\nThe Kings of the Rohirrim and their ancestors
\nThe Hobbit families
\nOther influences from Old Norse<\/p>\n
4. Odin’s appearance<\/p>\n
Gandalf and Odin
\nSaruman and Odin
\nSauron and Odin
\nManw\u00eb and Odin<\/p>\n
5. Natural mythological elements<\/p>\n
Who is Tom Bombadil?
\nEnts and Entfrauen
\nBeorn, the Gesrairwandler<\/p>\n
6. The friendly members of the lower mythology<\/p>\n
Hobbits
\nDwarfs (dwarves)
\nElves
\nWasa (Woses)<\/p>\n
7. The menacing powers of lower mythology<\/p>\n
Orcs
\nGoblins, Bilwig (goblins)
\nUruk-hai
\nTrolls
\nGiants
\nBalrogs<\/p>\n
8. Mythical animals, mythical animals and animal monsters<\/p>\n
Dragon and Dragonhunt
\nEagle
\nWolves and wargs
\nWerewolves
\nOliphants<\/p>\n
9. Runic writings<\/p>\n
The variants of Futhark
\nTolkien’s creative approach to runes
\nDwarf runes and moon runes
\nCirth und Angerthas
\nSymbol-rind Zauberrunen
\nThe runic inscriptions in Hobbit and Lord of the Rings<\/p>\n
10. Motifs from the German mythology and heroes of legend<\/p>\n
The One ring
\nThe King in the Mountain
\nThe Shadow Army
\nThe Broken Sword
\nThe worship of the gods without a temple
\nZahi Nine
\nRevenants, “Funeral Items” (barrow-wights)
\nThe Earendil myth
\nHigh Heights, Thrones (High Seats)<\/p>\n
\nSo, to pack that lot into just 200 pages makes it look like a broad survey. A quick search leads me to just one review online<\/a>, in German. Turns out the author of the book is… “a professor of medieval German and Scandinavian literature at the University of Bonn”. The reviewer notes that… “Very commendable in this context is Simek’s effort to find out which Nordic literature was published and available in the United Kingdom in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when Tolkien was a student and [lecturer?].” Our knowledge here is still somewhat limited (even now, with Tolkien’s Library<\/em> in print), but the reviewer notes that Simek is not afraid to “speculate” on what Tolkien read and\/or knew. The book looks like an interesting overview, but… it’s not in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two new Tolkien books seem of possible interest to me, in the Amazon forward listings. A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien is from David Day, the prolific and unofficial encyclopaedist of Middle-earth. It looks interesting enough to sample the free 10% on Kindle, when it sees publication in a few days. After the abundant illustrations […]<\/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-7344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344","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=7344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}