{"id":70074,"date":"2013-03-21T07:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=70074"},"modified":"2013-03-21T07:27:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:27:30","slug":"bbc-did-gollum-get-his-name-from-a-cave-in-the-irish-burren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/03\/21\/70074-bbc-did-gollum-get-his-name-from-a-cave-in-the-irish-burren\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC: Did Gollum get his name from a cave in the Irish Burren?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright no-lazyload\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/65047000\/jpg\/_65047774_tolkien3.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"157\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\"><em>From the BBC:<\/em> Was the wild lunar landscape of the Irish Burren in County Clare an inspiration for Tolkien&#8217;s Middle Earth?<\/p>\n<p>That is the question up for debate at the first Irish symposium for Lord of the Rings lovers to be held in May.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of Bilbo Baggins, Gollum and other JRR Tolkien creations are invited to discuss how the limestone rocks of the Burren are reflected in his famous chronicles.<\/p>\n<p>JRR Tolkien was a close friend of CS Lewis, author of the Narnia chronicles, who was from Belfast in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>He visited the Irish west coast with his friend.<\/p>\n<p>Tolkien also spent time as an external examiner with the English department at the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that one of Tolkien&#8217;s best known characters, Gollum, may be named after Poll na gColm (pronounced Pole na Gollum &#8211; cave of the rock dove) in the Burren.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-21859633\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Was the wild lunar landscape of the Irish Burren in County Clare an inspiration for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":70075,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,7,4,153,35,5,148,149,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serkis","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie","category-tolkien-life","category-lotr-books","category-lotr-movies","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/65047774_tolkien3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-iee","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70074","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\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70077,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70074\/revisions\/70077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}