{"id":2857,"date":"2018-07-10T19:56:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2018-07-10T19:56:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:56:13","slug":"more-tolkien-i-cannot-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/2857","title":{"rendered":"More Tolkien?  I Cannot Resist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gondolin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gondolin-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gondolin-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gondolin.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>I can&#8217;t blame them.  The man has been dead for 45 years and my collection somehow continues to grow.  Giving me anything <b>Silmarillion<\/b> related will equate to a certain purchase.  This time, we return to Gondolin to round out the trio of epic Tolkien tales, following Narn i Ch\u00een H\u00farin and Beren and L\u00fathien&#8217;s tale.  I know these stories by heart despite not touching the book in a decade.  I can open up to any section and be right back into the world, the lore and Tolkien&#8217;s grand vision.  I can&#8217;t wait to return to Turgon and to Maeglin&#8217;s betrayal.  The author of my favorite book remarkably continues to publish, almost a half-century after his passing.  Even his son, the editor of a majority of these books, creeps up on his 94th year.  One day, perhaps, they&#8217;ll run out of content.  But until then, I may be in search of a larger bookshelf.  :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t blame them. The man has been dead for 45 years and my collection somehow continues to grow. Giving me anything Silmarillion related will equate to a certain purchase. This time, we return to Gondolin to round out the trio of epic Tolkien tales, following Narn i Ch\u00een H\u00farin and Beren and L\u00fathien&#8217;s tale. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,49,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-books","category-tolkien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}