{"id":5090,"date":"2018-04-08T15:55:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T14:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2018-04-08T15:55:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T14:55:56","slug":"bombadil-as-guardian-spirit-for-lotr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/04\/08\/bombadil-as-guardian-spirit-for-lotr\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombadil as guardian-spirit for LoTR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Bombadil. Whatever else he may be, he&#8217;s an excellent &#8216;door-guard&#8217; guardian-spirit for <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, preventing unworthy readers from entering the rest of the book &mdash; the readers who just can&#8217;t get their dull heads past the idea of what they see as merely a &#8216;jolly annoying singing garden-gnome, with a fish for a wife&#8217;.  For the more perceptive reader, he more or less works the opposite way, as an enticing enigma and riddle. Partly shaped by Tolkien&#8217;s memories of his father-figure guardian Father Francis, obviously, and a dash of St. Francis&#8230; but far more than that and an enduring riddle for most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Bombadil. Whatever else he may be, he&#8217;s an excellent &#8216;door-guard&#8217; guardian-spirit for The Lord of the Rings, preventing unworthy readers from entering the rest of the book &mdash; the readers who just can&#8217;t get their dull heads past the idea of what they see as merely a &#8216;jolly annoying singing garden-gnome, with a fish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","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=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}