{"id":8578,"date":"2003-09-05T11:09:01","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T16:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/09\/05\/tolkien-lecures-at-the-smithsonian\/"},"modified":"2003-09-05T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2003-09-05T16:09:01","slug":"tolkien-lecures-at-the-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/09\/05\/8578-tolkien-lecures-at-the-smithsonian\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Lecures At The Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Mary Ann<\/b> writes: Verlyn Flieger, author of two books on Tolkien (<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0873387449\/qid=1062777977\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW><b>Splintered Light<\/a><\/b>, and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/087338699X\/qid=1062778068\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW><b>A Question of Time<\/b><\/a>) and a professor of English at the University of Maryland College Park will be giving a lecture series on Tolkien with the Smithsonian Resident Associates program in Washington, DC starting November 2003. I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to hear Dr. Flieger lecture about Tolkien and she&#8217;s amazing! [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/residentassociates.org\/com\/LOTR.asp\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Ann writes: Verlyn Flieger, author of two books on Tolkien (Splintered Light, and A Question of Time)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-2em","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}