{"id":20511,"date":"2000-08-26T13:59:46","date_gmt":"2000-08-26T18:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/08\/26\/this-day-in-history-fotr-published-in-1954-nope\/"},"modified":"2000-08-26T13:59:46","modified_gmt":"2000-08-26T18:59:46","slug":"this-day-in-history-fotr-published-in-1954-nope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/08\/26\/20511-this-day-in-history-fotr-published-in-1954-nope\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History: FotR Published in 1954? NOPE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barliman’s chatroom regular Ugluk<\/b> found this in his mail today:<\/p>\n

On this day in 1954 the first book of J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings was published. Nobody much noticed.<\/i> Source: The Daily Mail<\/p>\n

Sometimes it takes a while for a good thing to receive its due. I haven’t been able to confirm this anywhere else, so if you can please drop a line<\/a>. Thanks Ugluk for the tip!<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/b>:<\/font color =\"blue\"> Robert<\/b> refered me to page 183 of The Letters of JRR Tolkien where I find this, “…The Fellowship of the Ring, was published on 29 July 1954.” Sounds definitive to me, thanks Robert!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barliman’s chatroom regular Ugluk found this in his mail today: On this day in 1954 the first book…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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-20511","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-5kP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20511","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}