{"id":16123,"date":"2001-12-17T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2001-12-18T00:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/17\/the-secret-of-tolkiens-rings\/"},"modified":"2001-12-17T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2001-12-18T00:24:02","slug":"the-secret-of-tolkiens-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/17\/16123-the-secret-of-tolkiens-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"The secret of Tolkien’s ‘Rings’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Shippey once knew and taught with J.R.R. Tolkien at Oxford. And Shippey, the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St. Louis University in Missouri, said he knows why Tolkien’s work still has an audience today. [More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Shippey once knew and taught with J.R.R. Tolkien at Oxford. And Shippey, the Walter J. Ong Chair…<\/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-16123","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