{"id":71193,"date":"2014-10-24T22:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T03:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=71193"},"modified":"2014-10-25T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T15:21:10","slug":"tolkiens-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/10\/24\/71193-tolkiens-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"A giant falls: Tolkien\u2019s tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pinus-nigra-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"pinus-nigra\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-93436 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pinus-nigra-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pinus-nigra-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pinus-nigra.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Tolkien scholar and writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johngarth.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">John Garth<\/a> writes to tell us of a video documenting the sad end of a giant Black Pine (<i>Pinus nigra<\/i>) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk\/\">the University of Oxford Botanic Gardens<\/a> that J.R.R. Tolkien was known to have loved.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen the Botanic Garden\u2019s <i>Pinus nigra<\/i> was felled in August, there was reaction worldwide. The pine, much-loved by visitors, was known to be a favourite of JRR Tolkien, whose writings memorably celebrate and champion trees. <\/p>\n<p>But during more than two centuries the pine had endured many extremes of weather, and on 26 July one visitor captured the moment two colossal branches broke away &#8212; graphic evidence of the dangers it now posed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a curious inversion, one notes that <i>Pinus nigra<\/i> appears to be classified as an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.landcareresearch.co.nz\/resources\/identification\/plants\/weeds-key\/species-list\">invasive pest species<\/a> (or weed, if you prefer) in New Zealand: its propagation and sale is banned in that country.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the video that reveals the moment when the pair of branches on the Botanic Gardens broke off in a time-lapse film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk\/culture\/videos-podcasts-galleries\/giant-falls-tolkien%E2%80%99s-tree\" target=\"_blank\">here at Oxford Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien scholar and writer John Garth writes to tell us of a video documenting the sad end of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":93436,"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":[153,152],"tags":[1113],"class_list":["post-71193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tolkien-life","category-tolkien","tag-tolkien-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pinus-nigra.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-iwh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71193","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=71193"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93458,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71193\/revisions\/93458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}