{"id":19847,"date":"2024-07-26T20:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T00:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19847"},"modified":"2024-07-26T20:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T00:01:38","slug":"tolkien-on-world-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19847","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien on world-building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"J.R.R. Tolkien on Creating Fictional Worlds\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aVVlD2rJ1r0?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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Just found this fascinating excerpt<\/strong> from an old TV interview with J. R. R. Tolkien. It&#8217;s easy to understand how people complained that he often spoke rapidly and was hard to understand &#8212; the subtitles are very welcome. He always attributed the slurred speech to an old tongue injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The interviewer seems a tad clueless, not only about Tolkien&#8217;s mythopoeic philosophy (which is understandable) but about the basic Christian worldview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found this fascinating excerpt from an old TV interview with J. R. R. Tolkien. It&#8217;s easy to understand how people complained that he often spoke rapidly and was hard to understand &#8212; the subtitles are very welcome. He always attributed the slurred speech to an old tongue injury. The interviewer seems a tad clueless, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tolkien on world-building<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[2,17],"tags":[1345,5268],"class_list":["post-19847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-writing","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-world-building"],"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\/19847","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19849,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19847\/revisions\/19849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}