{"id":1481,"date":"2006-05-08T18:57:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T23:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/05\/08\/the-ring-of-words-review\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T18:57:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T23:57:34","slug":"the-ring-of-words-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/05\/08\/1481-the-ring-of-words-review\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Ring of Words&#8217; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Kerewyn<\/b> sends along this review from <b>worldwidewords.org<\/b>:  <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0198610696\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW><u>The Ring of Words : Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary<\/u><\/a> &#8220;It&#146;s little known that, before he wrote his famous books, Tolkien worked as a sub-editor at the Oxford English Dictionary for two years, helping to compile the last section to be published. Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner&#151;the authors of this book&#151;are among the present-day senior editors of the same work. Their commemoration of his linguistic facility comes a little late to the Tolkien party, but will interest anybody who regards the language of the books to be one of their prime qualities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0198610696\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW><b><i>Pre-Order &#8216;The Ring of Words : Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary&#8217; on Amazon.com today!<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerewyn sends along this review from worldwidewords.org: The Ring of Words : Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-nT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}