{"id":34025,"date":"2009-10-29T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T18:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=34025"},"modified":"2009-10-29T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T18:01:43","slug":"j-r-r-tolkien-makes-forbes-list-of-top-earning-dead-celebreties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/10\/29\/34025-j-r-r-tolkien-makes-forbes-list-of-top-earning-dead-celebreties\/","title":{"rendered":"J.R.R. Tolkien Makes Forbes list of Top Earning Dead Celebreties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-34026 no-lazyload\" title=\"J.R.R. Tolkien\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/J.R.R.-Tolkien-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"J.R.R. Tolkien\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>J.R.R. Tolkien was the fifth top earning dead celebrity on Forbes&#8217; list, earning $50 Million last year. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/10\/27\/top-earning-dead-celebrities-list-dead-celebs-09-entertainment_land.html\">Forbes.com<\/a>:\u00a0The creator of hobbits and Middle Earth languages left a lasting legacy for his fans and family with <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> franchise. The Tolkien estate and publisher HarperCollins recently reached a settlement with New Line Cinema over allegedly unpaid royalties from the Lord of the Rings movies. September&#8217;s agreement was reported at over $100 million, meaning J.R.R. Tolkien earned a sizable income in the last year. His earning potential isn&#8217;t dimming: <em>The Hobbit<\/em> is rumored for release in 2011, with directors Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson at the helm. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/10\/27\/top-earning-dead-celebrities-list-dead-celebs-09-entertainment_land.html\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.R.R. Tolkien was the fifth top earning dead celebrity on Forbes&#8217; list, earning $50 Million last year. From&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[153,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-life","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8QN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34025","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}