{"id":25080,"date":"2003-12-07T18:54:58","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T00:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/07\/sound-and-spirit-of-tolkien-2\/"},"modified":"2003-12-07T18:54:58","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T00:54:58","slug":"sound-and-spirit-of-tolkien-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/07\/25080-sound-and-spirit-of-tolkien-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sound and Spirit&#8217; of Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Sharon<\/b> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Tonight on Public Radio International the show &#8220;Sound and Spirit&#8221; did an hour-long overview of Tolkien&#8217;s lyrics, both spoken (recordings of the beloved Professor himself) and sung, performed by numerous artists including Shadowfax, The Tolkien Ensemble, Glass Hammer, The Hobbitons, and Donald Swann. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s even a wonderful original song on the Return of the King, sung by Tom Smith in the style of &#8220;The King.&#8221; And a nod is given to Led Zeppelin&#8217;s preoccupation with all things Tolkien.<\/p>\n<p>This link leads to the playlist:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/wgbh\/pages\/pri\/spirit\/shows\/059play.html\" target=\"new\">http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/wgbh\/pages\/pri\/spirit\/shows\/059play.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are other links on the page for listening to the entire archived show online (RealPlayer), and links to some of the websites of the performers featured. On the &#8216;listen online page there are links to a bibliography and a transcript of the show. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/wgbh\/pages\/pri\/spirit\/listen.html\" target=\"new\">Listen Online<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon writes: Tonight on Public Radio International the show &#8220;Sound and Spirit&#8221; did an hour-long overview of Tolkien&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6ww","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}