{"id":98329,"date":"2015-06-04T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=98329"},"modified":"2015-06-04T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T16:51:48","slug":"tolkien-letter-worth-8000-to-12000-says-antiques-roadshow-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2015\/06\/04\/98329-tolkien-letter-worth-8000-to-12000-says-antiques-roadshow-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien letter worth $8,000 to $12,000 says Antiques Roadshow expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tolkien_letter_close4.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-98330 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tolkien_letter_close4-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"tolkien_letter_close4\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tolkien_letter_close4-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tolkien_letter_close4.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tolkien_letter_close4-600x352.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Are you among the lucky few who possibly wrote to J.R.R. Tolkien when he was alive and received an answer, or somehow otherwise obtained an original letter by him? According to a U.S. Antiques Roadshow appraiser, it could be worth thousands of dollars today.\u00a0At the Charleston, West Virginia, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW event in 2014, books and manuscripts expert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/roadshow\/appraisers\/francis-j-wahlgren\/\">Francis Wahlgren<\/a> appraised a letter from Tolkien to William B. Ready, Director of libraries at Marquette University in Milwaukee. The owner of the letter inherited it some years ago and had it appraised in 1995 for $700. Wahlgren described Tolkien&#8217;s recent growth in popularity and determined that an appropriate auction value for the letter would be from $8,000 to $12,000, with an insurance estimate of $15,000. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/roadshow\/stories\/articles\/2015\/05\/25\/tolkien-letter-marquette-university\/\">pbs.org<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you among the lucky few who possibly wrote to J.R.R. Tolkien when he was alive and received&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[84,153,18,152,154],"tags":[792,2789],"class_list":["post-98329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise-collectibles","category-tolkien-life","category-merchandise","category-tolkien","category-tolkien-estate","tag-jrr-tolkien","tag-marquette-univi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-pzX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98329","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98332,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98329\/revisions\/98332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}