{"id":56886,"date":"2022-10-18T03:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T03:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=56886"},"modified":"2022-10-14T03:44:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T03:44:25","slug":"reading-the-runes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/reading-the-runes\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the runes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Tolkien letters are getting to be as costly as substantial Lovecraft letters&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a remarkable letter in which Tolkien explains the development of runes and languages used in The Hobbit, 1943, [has just] sold for $107,100, a world record for a letter by Tolkien.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re of course far scarcer, too.<\/p>\n<p>Until Christmas 2022 you can also get runic with Tolkien at the large exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marquette.edu\/haggerty-museum\/tolkien.php\">J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript<\/a> in the unlikely location of Milwaukee, USA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tolkien-header-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tolkien-header-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tolkien-header-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tolkien-header-2-528x187.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Tolkien&#8217;s design for a physical replica of <em>The Book of Mazarbul<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Tolkien letters are getting to be as costly as substantial Lovecraft letters&#8230; a remarkable letter in which Tolkien &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/reading-the-runes\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56886","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=56886"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56949,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56886\/revisions\/56949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}