{"id":58835,"date":"2012-07-12T14:19:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T19:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=58835"},"modified":"2012-07-12T14:19:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T19:19:45","slug":"christopher-tolkien-gives-rare-interview-to-le-monde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/12\/58835-christopher-tolkien-gives-rare-interview-to-le-monde\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Tolkien gives rare interview to Le Monde"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Christopher Tolkien<\/span> is the youngest son of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/span>, and his literary executor. He recently gave a rare interview to French newspaper Le Monde<\/em>. In it, he talks about his father’s works, reputation, and the slow evolution of Tolkien’s Middle-earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The posterity of J.R.R. Tolkien is both the story of an extraordinary literary transmission from a father to a son, and the story of a misunderstanding. The most well-known works, the ones that have hidden the rest, were only an epiphenomenon in the eyes of their author…<\/i><\/p>\n

[In French<\/a>] | [English translation<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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