{"id":52454,"date":"2012-01-05T13:21:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T18:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=52454"},"modified":"2012-01-05T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T18:28:15","slug":"nobel-prize-for-tolkien-dashed-by-poor-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/01\/05\/52454-nobel-prize-for-tolkien-dashed-by-poor-prose\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize for Tolkien dashed by &#8216;poor prose&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/01\/02\/34816-tolkien-birthday-toast-jan-3-2010\/jrr_tolkien\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34817\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-34817 alignleft no-lazyload\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"JRR Tolkien\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/jrr_tolkien-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The Guardian writes that recently released documents reveal in 1961 Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; &#8212; nominated by friend and fellow fantasy writer CS Lewis &#8212; was rejected by the Nobel Prize jury &#8220;on the grounds of his second-rate prose.&#8221; The news organization reports that though LOTR was &#8220;crowned the UK&#8217;s best-loved book and sold millions of copies around the world,&#8221; the 1961 jury believed the book &#8220;has not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality.&#8221;<br \/>\nWe can guess what your reaction is &#8212; share your thoughts on our <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=415927;sb=post_time;so=DESC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;guest=499615\">message boards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian writes that recently released documents reveal in 1961 Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; &#8212; nominated by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":34817,"comment_status":"open","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":[],"class_list":["post-52454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fotr-book","category-tolkien-life","category-lotr-books","category-rotk-book","category-lotr","category-ttt-book","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/jrr_tolkien.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-dE2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52454"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52459,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52454\/revisions\/52459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}