{"id":25012,"date":"2019-04-24T18:34:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=25012"},"modified":"2019-04-24T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:34:20","slug":"on-reading-lort-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/on-reading-lort-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"On reading LOTR for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eldritch Paths takes to <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, having got past the usual off-putting gripes from the Tolkien-haters (Lovecraftians will be familiar with the catechism, as it&#8217;s also used against Lovecraft). The Eldritch Paths&#8217;s final book report appeared yesterday, as <a href=\"https:\/\/eldritchpaths.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/24\/lord-of-the-rings-the-beauty-and-horror\/\">&#8220;The Beauty and Horror&#8221;<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was a bit reluctant to read the trilogy. The complaints I\u2019ve heard about Tolkien being \u201cboring\u201d, Middle-earth as a setting being cliche, and that the novels having way too much description put me off. Eventually, I hunkered down and bit the bullet. To my surprise, I was blown away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Lord of the Rings has genuine moments of horror. I\u2019m not talking about cheap thrills here either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Super. I envy him a first reading <em>sans<\/em> the movies, I wish I could experience it all afresh, but short of getting a blast of the black breath and losing my memory, that&#8217;s not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Eldritch Paths read the book in print, but for those who prefer audiobooks these days then your only choice should be the unofficial <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/\/2018\/07\/23\/phil-dragashs-unabridged-the-lord-of-the-rings\/\">unabridged reading by Phil Dragash<\/a> with good headphones and an audiobook player that does bookmarks easily (e.g. AIMP).  If this appeals, then be warned that Eldritch Paths&#8217;s book review has spoilers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eldritch Paths takes to The Lord of the Rings, having got past the usual off-putting gripes from the Tolkien-haters &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/on-reading-lort-for-the-first-time\/\">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":[21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings","category-podcasts-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25012","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=25012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}