{"id":23871,"date":"2019-03-23T05:18:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T02:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=23871"},"modified":"2023-12-05T22:27:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:27:45","slug":"tolkien-and-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/03\/23\/tolkien-and-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien and Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DMR asks <a>&#8220;Was Tolkien a Robert E. Howard Fan?&#8221;<\/a> and digs out the slim evidence. It all boils down to what L. Sprague de Camp remembered in 1983 of a snatch of conversation had with Tolkien in a garage in 1967, so it&#8217;s <em>pretty slim<\/em> as evidence goes.<\/p>\n<p>One can also find certain elements that are a good fit.  I remember on my complete listen-through of Howard&#8217;s Conan in audiobook, a couple of years ago now, that I thought there were about four or five good points of close comparison between one of the really long Conan stories (the novel?) and <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.  Tolkien&#8217;s personal reading habits did go in for the more popular easy-to-read end of things, presumably because he spent so much time professionally with more ponderous material.  The publication dates \/ place of publication \/ date of composition dates all fit together nicely, I seem to remember.  The &#8216;action style&#8217; of writing more or less fits, so there could also have been some stylistic inspiration alongside plot-points.  <\/p>\n<p>But we shall never know, now, so it didn&#8217;t seem worth writing it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DMR asks &#8220;Was Tolkien a Robert E. Howard Fan?&#8221; and digs out the slim evidence. It all boils down to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/03\/23\/tolkien-and-howard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings","category-reh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62414,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23871\/revisions\/62414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}