{"id":6608,"date":"2015-08-02T19:50:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T23:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2015-08-02T19:50:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T23:50:51","slug":"the-nightmare-of-tolkiens-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6608","title":{"rendered":"The Nightmare of Tolkien&#8217;s Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Who is the more enduringly important of the two? Tolkien wrote the greatest work, as evidenced by Germaine Greer\u2019s backhanded compliment: \u201cIt has been my nightmare,\u201d she snarled, \u201cthat Tolkien would turn out to be the most influential writer of the 20th century. The bad dream has materialized.\u201d Lewis\u2019s claims are broader. A half-century after his death, does any other writer turn up on so many shelves of good bookstores and libraries?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Nelson reviews another<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/myth-makers_996457.html?nopager=1#\"> one of those books about the Inklings.<\/a>\u00a0(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aldaily.com\/\">A&amp;L Daily<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the more enduringly important of the two? Tolkien wrote the greatest work, as evidenced by Germaine Greer\u2019s backhanded compliment: \u201cIt has been my nightmare,\u201d she snarled, \u201cthat Tolkien would turn out to be the most influential writer of the 20th century. The bad dream has materialized.\u201d Lewis\u2019s claims are broader. A half-century after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Nightmare of Tolkien&#8217;s Success<\/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":[432,1298,1345],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-inklings","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\/6608","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=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}