{"id":2332,"date":"2015-03-08T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:11:59","slug":"great-lord-oftherings-mythology-explained-in-4-minute-vid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2332","title":{"rendered":"Great! Lord of the Rings mythology explained in 4 minute vid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled across this. The channel has over 1.6 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago (many years!) I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Silmarillion-J-R-R-Tolkien\/dp\/0544338014\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1425506268&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+silmarillion\" target=\"_self\">The Silmarillion<\/a> which he mentions at the beginning. Unfortunately it is a very dry read, since it was unfinished by Tokien and edited by his son. Not as charming or interesting as Tolkien&#8217;s other works.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YxgsxaFWWHQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled across this. The channel has over 1.6 million subscribers. Years ago (many years!) I read The Silmarillion which he mentions at the beginning. Unfortunately it is a very dry read, since it was unfinished by Tokien and edited by his son. Not as charming or interesting as Tolkien&#8217;s other works. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6854,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}