{"id":23454,"date":"2005-05-26T19:08:31","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T00:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/05\/26\/hall-of-fire-this-weekend-lotr-unfilmable-3\/"},"modified":"2005-05-26T19:08:31","modified_gmt":"2005-05-27T00:08:31","slug":"hall-of-fire-this-weekend-lotr-unfilmable-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/05\/26\/23454-hall-of-fire-this-weekend-lotr-unfilmable-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall Of Fire This Weekend – LoTR Unfilmable?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been branded ‘unfilmable’ — even by the author himself. Indeed, Tolkien described Lord of the Rings as “a book very unsuitable for dramatic or semi-dramatic representation” (Letter #194). Even, his biographer, Humphrey Carpenter felt that, although Tolkien sold the film rights to LoTR, he had no real expectation that it could be successfully filmed.<\/p>\n

Yet it exists in film form, filmed to completion. Was JRR Tolkien then, wrong, in his estimation? [More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been branded ‘unfilmable’ — even by the author himself. Indeed, Tolkien described Lord of the Rings as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barliman-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-66i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23454","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}