{"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":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/12\/58835-christopher-tolkien-gives-rare-interview-to-le-monde\/christophertolkien\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58841\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-58841 no-lazyload\" title=\"ChristopherTolkien\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ChristopherTolkien.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Christopher Tolkien<\/span> is the youngest son of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">J.R.R. Tolkien<\/span>, and his literary executor. He recently gave a rare interview to French newspaper <em>Le Monde<\/em>. In it, he talks about his father&#8217;s works, reputation, and the slow evolution of Tolkien&#8217;s <em>Middle-earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><i>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&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/culture\/article\/2012\/07\/05\/tolkien-l-anneau-de-la-discorde_1729858_3246.html\">In French<\/a>] | [<a href=\"http:\/\/sedulia.blogs.com\/sedulias_translations\/2012\/07\/was-first-felt.html\">English translation<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Tolkien is the youngest son of J.R.R. Tolkien, and his literary executor. He recently gave a rare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_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":[499,238,7,35,6,98,148,149,152,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-christopher_tolkien","category-hobbit-book","category-lotr-books","category-tolkbooks","category-silmarillion","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-tolkien","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fiX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58835","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58835"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58852,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58835\/revisions\/58852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}