{"id":36937,"date":"2020-04-08T05:17:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T02:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=36937"},"modified":"2020-04-08T05:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T02:17:14","slug":"the-wanderers-necklace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/04\/08\/the-wanderers-necklace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wanderer\u2019s Necklace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/necklace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/necklace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"749\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36939\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New on <em>DMR<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dmrbooks.com\/test-blog\/2020\/4\/1\/victory-or-valhalla-a-review-of-the-wanderers-necklace\">&#8220;Victory or Valhalla! A Review of <em>The Wanderer\u2019s Necklace&#8221;<\/em><\/a> is Brian Murphy&#8217;s appreciation of the 1914 Rider Haggard novel, later claimed as a prototype of sword &amp; sorcery. Murphy concludes of this historical adventure novel&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>it\u2019s as good as more the more well-known and popular <em>She<\/em> &#8230; absolutely worth the read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He perceptively notes&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Olaf [the hero], suffering alone in a cell, finds comfort in the presence of something beyond his circumstances, eternal and divine, in the stars above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; and briefly plays this forward to reach Tolkien. Who, I can add, only read this 1914 novel in 1943, and then tut-tutted to Roger Lancelyn Green about its freewheeling attitude to historical facts and certain other things.  Thus Tolkien was likely reading this novel at the right point in time, re: a possible influence on the well-known &#8216;Sam and the stars&#8217; scene in <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. Yet that&#8217;s not Tolkien&#8217;s inspiration, whatever the dating.  Because Haggard&#8217;s scene reaches back in time &mdash; Haggard knew its original source and Tolkien would also have recognised where it came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on DMR, &#8220;Victory or Valhalla! A Review of The Wanderer\u2019s Necklace&#8221; is Brian Murphy&#8217;s appreciation of the 1914 Rider &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/04\/08\/the-wanderers-necklace\/\">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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36937","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=36937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}