{"id":22645,"date":"2002-07-21T22:31:18","date_gmt":"2002-07-22T03:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/07\/21\/annotated-hobbit-news-2\/"},"modified":"2002-07-21T22:31:18","modified_gmt":"2002-07-22T03:31:18","slug":"annotated-hobbit-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/07\/21\/22645-annotated-hobbit-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Annotated Hobbit News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Last week we posted <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/perl\/newsview\/6\/1026909803\" TARGET=NEW>this story on the delayed release of the Annotated Hobbit<\/a>, well now word has come on high from famed Tolkien author Douglas A Anderson on all the details about the book and the delay!<\/p>\n<p>The Real Scoop on <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0618134700\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW>The Annotated Hobbit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was very interested to see on your site the other day the report from Amazon.com on the availability of my <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0618134700\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW>Annotated Hobbit<\/a>.  I thought I&#146;d write in with a bit more information and an update.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0618134700\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW>The Annotated Hobbit<\/a> was scheduled to be published on June 26th, and the publisher can&#146;t be blamed for the delay.  It&#146;s really all my fault&#151;the book took longer than anyone was expecting to get it done right, and I hope the result will make people forget the delay.  The entire book has been reworked and re-written, and besides a much larger introduction, and many more annotations and illustrations (including a color insert), there are a few choice new items by Tolkien, like the short poem &#147;Glip&#148; (who is a precursor to <a HREF=\"http:\/\/theonering.net\/movie\/char\/gollum.html\">Gollum<\/a>), and the full of the longest version of &#147;The Quest of Erebor&#148;&#151;Gandalf&#146;s own account of how he arranged Bilbo&#146;s adventure.  <\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0618134700\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW>The Annotated Hobbit<\/a> is currently at the printers, and I&#146;ve been told that finished copies should reach the publisher&#146;s warehouse sometime in the third full week of August, after which the book will be shipped out to bookstores.  So I&#146;d expect to see it available around the last week of August.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas A. Anderson <\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0618134700\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW>Pre-Order the book from Amazon.com now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we posted this story on the delayed release of the Annotated Hobbit, well now word has&#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":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-spy-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5Tf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22645","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=22645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}