{"id":23720,"date":"2001-03-04T11:25:47","date_gmt":"2001-03-04T17:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/03\/04\/hall-of-fire-open-for-discussion-310-311\/"},"modified":"2001-03-04T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2001-03-04T17:25:47","slug":"hall-of-fire-open-for-discussion-310-311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/03\/04\/23720-hall-of-fire-open-for-discussion-310-311\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fire open for Discussion 3\/10 &#038; 3\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">This time around in the Hall of Fire we&#146;ll delve through one of the concepts that greatly impacted the life and mind of Professor Tolkien.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Impact of Industrialization on Tolkien and Middle-earth<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tolkien started his life down in the south of Africa in the late 1800&#146;s. As a youth and throughout his life, he witnessed the effect of industrialization and mechanization on both the environments he loved and humanity. A survivor and participant of World Wars, it was Tolkien&#146;s view that in Middle-earth, goblins (orcs) can be credited as those who, &#147;&#133;invented some of the machines that since troubled the world&#133;&#148; (from <i>The Hobbit<\/i>), and clearly sees this as a bad thing. But did Tolkien think that all industrialization was negative? Evidence points to the opposite as well.<\/p>\n<p>Come sit with us and explore how the industrial era changed the world, according to Tolkien. First timers welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Place: #thehalloffire on theonering.net server; come to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\">theonering.net<\/a>&#146;s chat room Barliman&#8217;s and then type \/join #thehalloffire .<\/p>\n<p><b>Saturday Chat:<\/b>\t7:00 pm ET (19:00) [also midnight Saturday (24:00) GMT and 10:00 am Sunday (10:00) AET]<\/p>\n<p><b>Sunday Chat:<\/b>\t8:00 pm (20:00) AET [also 10:00 am (10:00) GMT and 5:00 am (05:00) ET]<\/p>\n<p><b>Sunday Chat:<\/b>     6:00 pm (18:00) GMT [also 1:00 pm (13:00) ET and 4:00 am (04:00) Monday morning AET]<\/p>\n<p><b>ET<\/b> = Eastern Time, the time on the USA&#146;s east coast<br \/><b>GMT<\/b> = Greenwich Mean Time, the time in Western Europe<br \/><b>AET<\/b> = Australian Eastern Time, the time on Australia&#146;s east coast<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Topics? Send &#145;em <a href=\"mailto:Tookish@theonering.net\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time around in the Hall of Fire we&#146;ll delve through one of the concepts that greatly impacted&#8230;<\/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":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23720","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-6aA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23720","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=23720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}