{"id":22009,"date":"2014-04-22T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=22009"},"modified":"2014-04-15T19:37:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T00:37:58","slug":"the-making-of-middle-earth-by-christopher-snyder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-making-of-middle-earth-by-christopher-snyder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Making of Middle Earth by Christopher Snyder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=1046877\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22010\" alt=\"making of middle earth\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/making-of-middle-earth.jpg?resize=295%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"295\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/making-of-middle-earth.jpg?w=295&amp;ssl=1 295w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/making-of-middle-earth.jpg?resize=221%2C300&amp;ssl=1 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a>J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=686336\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/a> consistently tops polls as the best-loved literary work of all time. Now in <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?cn=1046877\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Making of Middle Earth<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, medieval scholar and Tolkien expert Christopher Snyder presents the most in-depth exploration yet of Tolkien&#8217;s source materials for Middle-earth &#8211; from the languages, poetry, and mythology of medieval Europe and ancient Greece to the halls of Oxford and the battlefields of World War I.<\/p>\n<p>Fueled by the author&#8217;s passion for all things Tolkien, this richly illustrated book also reveals the surprisingly pervasive influence of Tolkien&#8217;s timeless fantasies on modern culture. <em>(description from publisher)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings consistently tops polls as the best-loved literary work of all time. Now in The Making of Middle Earth, medieval scholar and Tolkien expert Christopher Snyder presents the most in-depth exploration yet of Tolkien&#8217;s source materials for Middle-earth &#8211; from the languages,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-making-of-middle-earth-by-christopher-snyder\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[742,2628,2630,2629],"class_list":["post-22009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fantasy","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-middle-earth","tag-tolkien"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5IZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22012,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22009\/revisions\/22012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}