{"id":111290,"date":"2021-08-06T20:12:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T01:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=111290"},"modified":"2021-08-06T20:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T01:12:59","slug":"preview-the-nature-of-middle-earth-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2021\/08\/06\/111290-preview-the-nature-of-middle-earth-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview The Nature of Middle-earth now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\">Harper Collins has just released a preview of its forthcoming Tolkien book <em>The Nature of Middle-earth<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>The Nature of Middle-earth<\/em> reveals for the first time J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s final notes and essays, covering topics ranging from &#8220;the metaphysics of Elvish immortality and reincarnation, and the Powers of the Valar, to more earth-bound subjects of the lands and beasts of N\u00famenor, the geography of the Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor&#8230;&#8221; (according to the publisher blurb).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a quick flip through shows that this is the case. I do wonder whether the information here about the nature of elves will come to supplant what&#8217;s in  <em>The History of Middle-earth<\/em>&#8216;s <em>Law and Customs of the Eldar<\/em>. Time will tell, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve read <em>The Silmarillion<\/em>, <em>Unfinished Tales<\/em>, or <em>The History of Middle-earth<\/em>, you&#8217;ll want to check this out. Just click the book cover image to head to the Harper Collins preview site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/preview.aer.io\/The_Nature_of_Middleearth-NDAxNzU2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Nature-of-Middle-earth-656x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Nature of Middle-earth\" class=\"wp-image-108995 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Nature-of-Middle-earth-656x1024.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Nature-of-Middle-earth-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Nature-of-Middle-earth-768x1200.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Nature-of-Middle-earth-600x937.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Nature-of-Middle-earth-983x1536.jpg 983w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Nature-of-Middle-earth-1311x2048.jpg 1311w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Nature-of-Middle-earth-102x160.jpg 102w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Nature-of-Middle-earth-scaled.jpg 1639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Nature of Middle-earth<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read an excerpt from the new, forthcoming Tolkien book The Nature of Middle-earth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":108995,"comment_status":"closed","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":[163,153,196,18,6,152],"tags":[3682,195,3681],"class_list":["post-111290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-merchandise-books","category-tolkien-life","category-tolkien-languages","category-merchandise","category-tolkbooks","category-tolkien","tag-carl-hostetter","tag-harper-collins","tag-the-nature-of-middle-earth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/The-Nature-of-Middle-earth-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-sX0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111290","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=111290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111292,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111290\/revisions\/111292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}