{"id":8945,"date":"2021-06-28T05:37:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T04:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2021-06-28T05:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T04:37:05","slug":"many-fair-letters-of-strange-and-ancient-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2021\/06\/28\/many-fair-letters-of-strange-and-ancient-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"“… many fair letters of strange and ancient shapes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet more interesting new papers on Tolkien, freely online…<\/p>\n

“Tolkien, Manuscripts, and Dialects”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Where the Shadows Lie: Tolkien\u2019s Medieval View of Free Will, Temptation, and Evil”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Earendel and the Dragon”<\/a> (compares the three battles against Melkor “to depictions of astronomical events in … medieval annals”).<\/p>\n

“Tolkien Beyond the Myth”<\/a> (Law & Liberty<\/em> review of the new book Tolkien\u2019s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages<\/em>).<\/p>\n

“Journey Back Again: Reasons to Revisit Middle-earth”<\/a> (Mythlore<\/em> book review, summer 2021).<\/p>\n

“The ancestors of J.R.R. Tolkien”<\/a> (abstract only, paper withdrawn… “his grandfather John Benjamin (1807-96) had a thriving music business at 70 and 87 New Street”, Birmingham).<\/p>\n

“Retracing Classical Motifs: Classical Reception of Greek Epic Cycle in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion<\/em>” (substantial abstract and bibliography only) (if you\u2019re not a member of Academia.edu you can only get the public PDF download via a link from a Google Scholar search).<\/p>\n

“Tolkien : essai d’une lecture philosophique”<\/a> (in French, appears to argue that Tolkien’s major creations can be considered a legitimate “work of philosophy” even though he was not a trained philosopher).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet more interesting new papers on Tolkien, freely online… “Tolkien, Manuscripts, and Dialects”. “Where the Shadows Lie: Tolkien\u2019s Medieval View of Free Will, Temptation, and Evil”. “Earendel and the Dragon” (compares the three battles against Melkor “to depictions of astronomical events in … medieval annals”). “Tolkien Beyond the Myth” (Law & Liberty review of the […]<\/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-8945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945","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=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}