{"id":15411,"date":"2002-01-26T12:20:54","date_gmt":"2002-01-26T18:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/01\/26\/missing-tolkien\/"},"modified":"2002-01-26T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2002-01-26T18:20:54","slug":"missing-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/01\/26\/15411-missing-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolkien disliked allegory. He thought it a sterile and predictable genre. Yet, many readers of his The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) have been unable to resist allegorical interpretations, the most popular of which see the work as a Christian allegory or as an allegory for the great wars of the early 20th century. [More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolkien disliked allegory. He thought it a sterile and predictable genre. Yet, many readers of his The Lord…<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-15411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t