{"id":1891,"date":"2015-08-16T17:51:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T17:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2015-08-16T17:51:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T17:51:55","slug":"kullervo-more-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1891","title":{"rendered":"Kullervo &#8211; More Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Kullervo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Kullervo-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kullervo\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Kullervo-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Kullervo.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy the time <b>Kullervo<\/b> is released in 2016, it&#8217;ll have been 43 years since my beloved JRR Tolkien passed away.  I can say his best work was posthumous; <b>The Silmarillion<\/b> is my favorite book of all time.  However, every year I&#8217;m duped into buying something&#8230;and <b>Kullervo<\/b> will prove no different.  Christopher Tolkien&#8217;s last two publications, <b>The Fall Of Arthur<\/b> and <b>Beowulf<\/b> were both short on content, long on essays and neither were particularly compelling reads.  They look great on my bookshelf.  I enjoy having them in my collection, but I don&#8217;t love either and I never finished <b>The Legend Of Sigurd &#038; Gudrun<\/b>.  Now, <B>The Children Of H\u00farin<\/b> is great, but I&#8217;d read most of it in both my favorite book and in <b>Unfinished Tales<\/b>.  <\/p>\n<p>So, while <b>Kullervo&#8217;s<\/b> concept sounds nice, we cannot forget it was written 100 years ago.  Tolkien&#8217;s works from that time, such as <B>The Book Of Lost Tales<\/b> (1 and 2) are not my favorite.  I&#8217;ll admit I look forward to this tragic tale.  However, I&#8217;ll keep my expectations in check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time Kullervo is released in 2016, it&#8217;ll have been 43 years since my beloved JRR Tolkien passed away. I can say his best work was posthumous; The Silmarillion is my favorite book of all time. However, every year I&#8217;m duped into buying something&#8230;and Kullervo will prove no different. Christopher Tolkien&#8217;s last two publications, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,49,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-books","category-tolkien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}