{"id":3260,"date":"2005-02-18T12:44:55","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T18:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/02\/18\/tolkiens-cosmological-vision\/"},"modified":"2005-02-18T12:44:55","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T18:44:55","slug":"tolkiens-cosmological-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/02\/18\/3260-tolkiens-cosmological-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien&#8217;s cosmological vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Peter L&#8217;Official<\/b> writes: Before Frodo and Sam, there were Beren and Luthien. A case for revisiting &#8220;The Silmarillion.&#8221; In the last dread days of disco-d&ucirc;r, in the midst of the Seventh Age &#8212; known in perhaps a more familiar tongue as &#8220;the Nineteen Seventies&#8221; &#8212; there emerged from the House of Houghton Mifflin, and later from that of Ballan-tine, a great book of which much was expected, though few but the most ardent of devotees could wholly comprehend it. It has, in the Tolkienian spirit, valiantly returned. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/feature\/2005\/02\/18\/silmarillion\/index_np.html?x\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><center><i><b><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0618391118\/qid=1108752201\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW>Buy the new Hardcover edition of &#8216;The Silmarillion&#8217; on Amazon.com<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter L&#8217;Official writes: Before Frodo and Sam, there were Beren and Luthien. A case for revisiting &#8220;The Silmarillion.&#8221;&#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_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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-QA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}