{"id":27502,"date":"2001-07-04T15:25:35","date_gmt":"2001-07-04T20:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/07\/04\/bbc-article-the-usual-pitfalls-of-once-over-lightly-journalism\/"},"modified":"2001-07-04T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2001-07-04T20:25:35","slug":"bbc-article-the-usual-pitfalls-of-once-over-lightly-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/07\/04\/27502-bbc-article-the-usual-pitfalls-of-once-over-lightly-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC article &#8211; the usual pitfalls of &#8216;once-over&#8217;-lightly&#8217; journalism."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Steve wrote with a worry about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/birmingham\/entertainment\/movies\/movie_news\/lord_of_rings.shtml\" target=new>BBC report<\/a>  that appeared today, which said that two members of the Fellowship die in &#8216;TheTwo Towers.&#8217;   He wondered if they were misinformed regarding Gandalf&#8217;s death. I reckoned that was open to interpretation, but there are more glaring errors in the report. Here&#8217;s my reply to him: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though there are those who argue that Gandalf does truly die and is &#8216;resurrected&#8217; &#8211; that would be in tune with Tolkien&#8217;s Catholic beliefs.  However he was wary of proclaiming his personal beliefs to anyone and everyone, so the implication of &#8216;resurrection&#8217; is just left as a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>However I notice the BBC article misspells Tolkien&#8217;s name and has the lunatic assertion that Middle-earth is based on the countryside round Sarehole, Birmingham. Sarehole&#8217;s not particularly notable for snow-capped mountain-ranges, volcanic ash-cones etc. Sarehole surely served as Tolkien&#8217;s inspiration for the Shire, but Middle-earth is a great deal more than just the Shire.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the article is interesting because they&#8217;ve tracked down two Tolkien relatives I&#8217;ve never heard of before, and it was great to see that they&#8217;ve carried on the tradition of creativity in the family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve wrote with a worry about the BBC report that appeared today, which said that two members of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27502","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-79A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27502","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}