{"id":35134,"date":"2010-02-05T07:33:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T12:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=35134"},"modified":"2010-02-05T07:33:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T12:33:06","slug":"the-hobbit-a-book-for-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/02\/05\/35134-the-hobbit-a-book-for-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hobbit: a book for adults"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Ringer David for sending us this link to a blog post from Daniel Hannen at the Daily Telegraph:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure that we properly appreciate\u00a0The Hobbit<\/em> as children. We enjoy the story, obviously, and the pace, and the characters. But only now, reading the book to my eight-year-old, am I touched by the pulse of the prose.<\/p>\n

It is a book written to be read aloud. Tolkien understood the power of incantation: the way in which, as Philip Pullman puts it, reciting a fine poem makes you feel as if you were voicing words of power, chanting a spell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Follow the link to read the full article. [Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Ringer David for sending us this link to a blog post from Daniel Hannen at the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-book"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t