{"id":104882,"date":"2018-04-14T01:09:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T06:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=104882"},"modified":"2018-04-14T01:09:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T06:09:04","slug":"tolkien-a-creator-of-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2018\/04\/14\/104882-tolkien-a-creator-of-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien: a creator of worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">It seems that, with those Tolkien biopics gradually approaching, more and more people are taking an interest in the biographical details of Tolkien&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s your thing, you might enjoy this pretty solid overview from Simon Whistler. (I didn&#8217;t know about the tarantula incident, for example, a minor controversy that you can get more background on <a href=\"http:\/\/tolkiengateway.net\/wiki\/Spiders\">over on Tolkien Gateway<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AKHmC8CmBeU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that, with those Tolkien biopics gradually approaching, more and more people are taking an interest in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":104883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[153,196,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tolkien-life","category-tolkien-languages","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tolkworlds.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-rhE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104886,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104882\/revisions\/104886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}