{"id":32501,"date":"2009-06-17T11:03:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T16:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=32501"},"modified":"2009-06-17T11:03:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T16:03:56","slug":"china-mieville-talks-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/06\/17\/32501-china-mieville-talks-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"China Mieville Talks Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">From <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnivoracious.com\/2009\/06\/there-and-back-again-five-reasons-tolkien-rocks.html\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/strong> Blogs: The Author of the Century, of course, needs no help from anyone (least of all a speck like me). No force on earth could undermine either the juggernaut implacability of his sales, nor the world-historic scale of his influence, nor the truly enormous weight of his achievement. The man puts the &#8216;epic&#8217; in &#8216;epic win&#8217;. However&#8211;or, more accurately, because of that&#8211;every few years, certain as tides, someone will write a splenetic screed against the Professor, explaining why he&#8217;s the devil\/ worst things to happen to fantasy\/voice of reaction\/zomg most boring writer EVER \/etc. The Oedipal Resentment motivating many of these attacks may be trivially obvious, especially in those from within fantastic fiction, but it doesn&#8217;t follow that the substance of all the criticism is baseless. There are perfectly reasonable arguments to be had about the impact, nature, scale and success of Tolkien&#8217;s work. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnivoracious.com\/2009\/06\/there-and-back-again-five-reasons-tolkien-rocks.html\">China Mieville Talks Tolkien<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Amazon.com Blogs: The Author of the Century, of course, needs no help from anyone (least of all&#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_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":[36,153,35,38,149,37,152],"tags":[782],"class_list":["post-32501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fotr-book","category-tolkien-life","category-lotr-books","category-rotk-book","category-lotr","category-ttt-book","category-tolkien","tag-china-mieville"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8sd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32501","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=32501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}