{"id":63291,"date":"2012-10-16T16:15:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=63291"},"modified":"2012-10-16T16:15:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T21:15:31","slug":"tolkien-letter-reveals-poor-sales-of-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/10\/16\/63291-tolkien-letter-reveals-poor-sales-of-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien letter reveals poor sales of The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/63521000\/jpg\/_63521342_tolkien.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" class=\"no-lazyload\"> A letter from JRR Tolkien to Swallows and Amazons writer Arthur Ransome has revealed the author&#8217;s concerns about sales of The Hobbit.<\/p>\n<p>Tolkien said he would send a revised edition to Ransome &#8220;if there is a reprint&#8221;, adding &#8220;sales are not very great&#8221;. The letter forms part of a collection of Tolkien&#8217;s writing held at the University of Leeds &#8212; where he taught.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-19965058\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from JRR Tolkien to Swallows and Amazons writer Arthur Ransome has revealed the author&#8217;s concerns about&#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_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":[499,7,153,148,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-book","category-tolkien-life","category-hobbit","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gsP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63291","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=63291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63293,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63291\/revisions\/63293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}