{"id":60526,"date":"2012-08-08T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=60526"},"modified":"2012-08-08T16:59:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T21:59:19","slug":"author-elizabeth-m-stephen-focuses-on-aragorn-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/08\/08\/60526-author-elizabeth-m-stephen-focuses-on-aragorn-in-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tolkien book focuses on Aragorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/08\/08\/60526-author-elizabeth-m-stephen-focuses-on-aragorn-in-new-book\/hh-advert-large-edit\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60539\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-60539 no-lazyload\" title=\"HH-advert-large-edit\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/HH-advert-large-edit-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/HH-advert-large-edit-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/HH-advert-large-edit.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/a> Author <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Elizabeth M Stephen<\/span>&#8216;s new book focuses on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aragorn<\/span>\u00a0the hero-king of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span>, although he is one of the pivotal figures of Tolkien\u2019s mythology, a detailed examination of this popular character has been a notable omission from the spectrum of existing study. The book is published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adcbooks.co.uk\/\">ADC books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hobbit to Hero<\/span><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">: The Making of Tolkien&#8217;s King<\/span>, is a uniquely detailed study of the character &#8220;Aragorn&#8221; unraveling his evolution from hobbit ranger to Numenorean King and exploring how this unexpected transformation enabled Tolkien to fulfill some of the profound functions of his wider mythology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to ringerspy <strong>Liz<\/strong> for the heads up. For details on the official <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">book launch<\/span> and for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">pre-ordering<\/span> read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adcbooks.co.uk\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Elizabeth M Stephen&#8216;s new book focuses on Aragorn\u00a0the hero-king of The Lord of the Rings, although he&#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":[163,35,18,91,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise-books","category-lotr-books","category-merchandise","category-events-other","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fKe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60526","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=60526"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60583,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60526\/revisions\/60583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}