{"id":925,"date":"2013-01-05T22:34:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T04:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/?p=925"},"modified":"2016-10-01T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T14:55:19","slug":"hobbits-are-my-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Hobbits are my Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hobbits are my heroes! I finally saw <em>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em> with my family. \u00a0Despite the criticism of blood and gore, and the qualms about length, the entire family found something to enjoy. \u00a0I love those furry-feeted guys. I realize this is a rather obvious literary connection, since the movie is based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien and pretty much everyone is aware of that, but I thought it needed to be said. \u00a0To me, on my quest to show that literature affects what we do in the modern world, this movie franchise is a terrific example of the appeal books &#8212; and their transformations on screen, canvas, and whatever &#8212; can have on audiences over and over again. \u00a0What a fantastic world Tolkien created; it&#8217;s intricacy is pretty astounding. \u00a0Before I saw the movie, a family member mentioned to me that she heard some people were upset because the movie doesn&#8217;t just imitate <em>The Hobbit<\/em> story itself, but tries to incorporate some of <em>The Silmarillon<\/em>, also by Tolkien. Because I am so fascinated with the way director Peter Jackson has brought this world to life for all of us to see on the big screen, I personally thought any connection to the lore of <em>The Silmarillon<\/em>\u00a0could prove interesting. \u00a0My family enjoyed talking about the literary and non-literary connections as we drove home after the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hobbits are my heroes! I finally saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey with my family. \u00a0Despite the criticism of blood and gore, and the qualms about length, the entire family found something to enjoy. \u00a0I love those furry-feeted guys. I realize this is a rather obvious literary connection, since the movie is based on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,10],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-connections","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literatureisnotextinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}