{"id":5595,"date":"2013-12-27T20:11:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T01:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2013-12-27T20:11:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T01:11:24","slug":"tolkien-and-the-long-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien and the Long Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Barber connects <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2013\/12\/11\/tolkien-and-the-long-defeat\/\">Tolkien&#8217;s elves to the Christian life<\/a>. &#8220;This place, once so full of life and sustained by the Lady of Light, Galadriel&#8230; has become a glorious ruin. For Galadriel, like the rest of her kin, has left the world to the rule of man; the elves, in all their splendor, have reached their end. [She says,]&#8217;. . . together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Barber connects Tolkien&#8217;s elves to the Christian life. &#8220;This place, once so full of life and sustained by the Lady of Light, Galadriel&#8230; has become a glorious ruin. For Galadriel, like the rest of her kin, has left the world to the rule of man; the elves, in all their splendor, have reached their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tolkien and the Long Defeat<\/span> <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":{"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":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"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\/5595","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=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}