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The Hobbits of Tolkien<\/div><\/div>
David Day<\/div><\/div>
November 7, 2019<\/div><\/div>
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An entire race was born when J.R.R. Tolkien scrawled on a leaf, ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.’ From the invention of that single word (hobbit) Tolkien became the explorer and chronicler of the character, their race and their significant role in his fantastical world, Middle-earth. Here in his latest book, Tolkien expert David Day unpicks the myriad of riddles, puns and mystical meanings in Tolkien’s works; The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/content?id=8BUMwwEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api","book_review_title":"The Hobbits of Tolkien","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"David Day","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"978-0-7537-3378-3","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"November 7, 2019","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"192","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"-1","book_review_summary":"An entire race was born when J.R.R. Tolkien scrawled on a leaf, 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' From the invention of that single word (hobbit) Tolkien became the explorer and chronicler of the character, their race and their significant role in his fantastical world, Middle-earth. Here in his latest book, Tolkien expert David Day unpicks the myriad of riddles, puns and mystical meanings in Tolkien's works; The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerkeep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerkeep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerkeep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerkeep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerkeep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cornerkeep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/cornerkeep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerkeep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerkeep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerkeep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}