{"id":1694,"date":"2006-02-23T15:53:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T21:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/23\/tolkien-the-lord-of-literary-fantasies\/"},"modified":"2007-11-22T01:50:55","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T06:50:55","slug":"tolkien-the-lord-of-literary-fantasies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/23\/1694-tolkien-the-lord-of-literary-fantasies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien: The Lord Of Literary Fantasies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">TAMPA &#8211; &#8220;In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit &#8230;&#8221; That famous first line, now 70 years old, introduced J.R.R. Tolkien to a small readership, and so began the cult of Middle-earth. After his &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy hit bookstores in the mid-1950s, Tolkien was fast becoming a worldwide cultural phenomenon. As complex as they appear, Tolkien&#8217;s literary fantasies all grew from kernels, branching out into an interconnected family tree. But where did these ideas come from and how did he develop them? [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.tbo.com\/life\/MGBKVWX80KE.html\" TARGEt=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA &#8211; &#8220;In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit &#8230;&#8221; That famous first line, now&#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_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,7,153,35,130,6,38,148,149,37,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fotr-book","category-hobbit-book","category-tolkien-life","category-lotr-books","category-old-main-news","category-tolkbooks","category-rotk-book","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-ttt-book","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","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=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}