{"id":13250,"date":"2020-01-16T12:52:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T17:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13250"},"modified":"2020-01-16T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T17:52:16","slug":"christopher-tolkien-has-sailed-into-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13250","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Tolkien Has Sailed into the West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The French website Var-matin reported about an hour ago that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.varmatin.com\/culture\/christopher-le-fils-de-jrr-tolkien-sest-eteint-dans-le-var-a-lage-de-95-ans-448318\">Christopher Tolkien passed away<\/a> in a hospital in southern France. He was 95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last book he edited, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/jrr-tolkiens-final-posthumous-book-published-180970164\/\"><em>The Fall of Gondolin<\/em>, was published in 2018<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">J.R.R. Tolkien had four children with his wife, Edith: John, Michael, Christopher, and\u00a0Priscilla, she being the one surviving sibling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Into the West - The Lord of the Rings - Peter Hollens\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ojt0eiFX1K4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French website Var-matin reported about an hour ago that Christopher Tolkien passed away in a hospital in southern France. He was 95. The last book he edited, The Fall of Gondolin, was published in 2018. J.R.R. Tolkien had four children with his wife, Edith: John, Michael, Christopher, and\u00a0Priscilla, she being the one surviving sibling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[513,1345],"class_list":["post-13250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-christopher-tolkien","tag-j-r-r-tolkien"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}