{"id":1889,"date":"2016-09-08T19:14:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2016-09-08T19:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:14:33","slug":"tolkien-if-he-ever-existed-did-not-write-this-work-in-the-conventional-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2016\/09\/08\/tolkien-if-he-ever-existed-did-not-write-this-work-in-the-conventional-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tolkien&#8221; (if he ever existed) did not &#8220;write&#8221; this work in the conventional sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A delightful &#8216;biff on the nose&#8217; to parroting literary academics and over-cautious politically correct historians, from <em>Catholic World<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicexchange.com\/the-lord-of-the-rings-a-source-criticism-analysis\">The Lord of the Rings: A Source-Criticism Analysis<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Because <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> is a composite of sources, we may be quite certain that \u201cTolkien\u201d (if he ever existed) did not \u201cwrite\u201d this work in the conventional sense, but that it was assembled over a long period of time by someone else of the same name. We know this because a work of the range, depth, and detail of The Lord of the Rings is far beyond the capacity of any modern expert in source-criticism to ever imagine creating themselves.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re skim-reading this: it&#8217;s a joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delightful &#8216;biff on the nose&#8217; to parroting literary academics and over-cautious politically correct historians, from Catholic World: The Lord of the Rings: A Source-Criticism Analysis&#8230; &#8220;Because The Lord of the Rings is a composite of sources, we may be quite certain that \u201cTolkien\u201d (if he ever existed) did not \u201cwrite\u201d this work in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}