What do Athrabeth and Ed McMahon have in common this month? We’re on a star search! Our Lesser-trod Histories series continues in episode 72 with a discussion of The Tale of Eärendel from the Book of Lost Tales: Part 2. A big thank you to Tolkien scholar and author John Garth for his excellent book Tolkien And The Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth from which we drew heavily for this episode.
Citations:
Garth, John. Tolkien And The Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. First Mariner Books edition 2005. eISBN 978-0-544-26372-7. V2.0519. (Accessed June 30, 2024)
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Book of Lost Tales, Part II. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. The History of Middle-earth: Vol. 2. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1984. (Accessed June 30, 2024)
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Silmarillion. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Apple Books edition. (Accessed June 30, 2024)
Tolkien Gateway entry for Eärendil
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/E%C3%A4rendil (Accessed June 29, 2024)
Tolkien Gateway entry for The Book of Lost Tales: Part Two
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Book_of_Lost_Tales:_Part_Two (Accessed June 29, 2024)
Tolkien Gateway entry for The Tale of Eärendel
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Tale_of_E%C3%A4rendel (Accessed June 29, 2024)
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Summer learning opportunities:
Saturday July 6: Tolkien Society Summer Seminar - Tolkien’s Romantic Resonances
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/the-tolkien-society-hybrid-seminar-2024-tolkiens-romantic-resonances/ (Accessed June 29, 2024)
Sunday August 4: From the Politics and Prose bookstore - “Tolkien's “The Athrabeth” and “Myths Transformed” Presented by Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger.
https://www.politics-prose.com/class/online-class-tolkiens-athrabeth-and-myths-transformed-2485 (Accessed June 29, 2024)
Thank you to friend-of-the-show Clare Moore for alerting us to this class! Clare can be found on Twitter @claremoore94
Thursday August 29- Sunday Sept. 1: Tolkien Society - Oxonmoot 51
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/oxonmoot-2024/ (Accessed June 29, 2024)