{"id":322,"date":"2004-01-10T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2004-01-10T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2015-05-13T14:23:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T18:23:34","slug":"the-sequel-to-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe sequel to the Hobbit\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0618056998&#038;asins=0618056998&#038;linkId=7XVDXLD7UJIUTM45&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I have begun again on the sequel to the &#8216;Hobbit&#8217; &#8211; The Lord of the Ring.  It is now flowing along, and getting quite out of hand.  It has reached about Chapter VII and progresses towards quite unforeseen goals.  I must say I think it is a good deal better in places and some ways than the predecessor; but that does not say that I think it either more suitable or more adapted for its audience.  For one thing it is, like my own children (who have the immediate serial rights), rather &#8216;older&#8217;.  I can only say that Mr. [C.S.] Lewis (my stout backer of the Times and T.L.S.) professes himself more than pleased.  If the weather is wet in the next fortnight we may have got still further on.  But it is no bed-time story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211;letter of JRR Tolkien to Allen &#038; Unwin, his publisher, 31 August 1938<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I love the understatement of that.  &#8220;Out of hand&#8221; indeed.  If he could see the LOTR mania now, he would truly understand how &#8220;out of hand&#8221; it all is.<\/p>\n<p>And the last sentence kills me.  &#8220;&#8230;it is no bed-time story&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have begun again on the sequel to the &#8216;Hobbit&#8217; &#8211; The Lord of the Ring. It is now flowing along, and getting quite out of hand. It has reached about Chapter VII and progresses towards quite unforeseen goals. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=322\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[262,1095,853],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101195,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/101195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}