{"id":58991,"date":"2012-07-13T21:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T02:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=58991"},"modified":"2012-07-13T21:30:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T02:30:28","slug":"a-new-tolkien-book-looms-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/13\/58991-a-new-tolkien-book-looms-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Tolkien book looms on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/J.R.R.-Tolkien-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" class=\"no-lazyload\" \/>The Tolkien scholarly community is afire with curiosity and rumours after it emerged that a new Tolkien book is on the horizon. The book, which we understand will be called <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Fall of Arthur<\/span> appears to be set for a May 2013 release going from pre-order information that inadvertently popped up on the website of retailing giant Amazon. It&#8217;s possible that it has been edited by Christopher Tolkien, but this is unconfirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Fall of Arthur is a long, alliterative poem based on Arthurian legends. Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotrplaza.com\/forum\/forum_posts.asp?TID=244254\">excerpts<\/a> from it were published in Humphrey Carpenter&#8217;s biography of JRR Tolkien. It seems it was written in the 1930s. In Letters of JRR Tolkien there is a bare mention of The Fall of Arthur.<\/p>\n<p><em>I write alliterative verse with pleasure, though I have published little beyond fragments in The Lord of the Rings, except &#8216;The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth&#8217;&#8230; a dramatic dialogue on the nature of the &#8216;heroic&#8217; and the &#8216;chivalrous&#8217;. I still hope to finish a long poem on The Fall of Arthur in the same measure.<\/em> Letter 165, Letters of JRR Tolkien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tolkien scholarly community is afire with curiosity and rumours after it emerged that a new Tolkien book&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[238,153,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christopher_tolkien","category-tolkien-life","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-flt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58991","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58997,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58991\/revisions\/58997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}