{"id":50935,"date":"2011-12-02T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=50935"},"modified":"2011-12-02T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T21:12:24","slug":"the-dragon%e2%80%99s-egg-high-fantasy-for-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/12\/02\/50935-the-dragon%e2%80%99s-egg-high-fantasy-for-young-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dragon\u2019s Egg – High fantasy for young adults"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable. \u201cIncoherent and often inaudible\u201d was Kingsley Amis\u2019s verdict on his teacher. Tolkien, he reported, would write long lists of words on the blackboard, obscuring them with his body as he droned on, then would absent-mindedly erase them without turning around. \u201cI can just about stand learning the filthy lingo it\u2019s written in,\u201d Philip Larkin, another Tolkien student, complained about the old man\u2019s lectures on \u201cBeowulf.\u201d \u201cWhat gets me down is being expected to admire the bloody stuff.\u201d More..<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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