{"id":4145,"date":"2010-06-12T17:18:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T17:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tolkien-john-ronald-reuel\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:37:59","slug":"tolkien-john-ronald-reuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tolkien-john-ronald-reuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Tolkien_1916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-28134\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Tolkien_1916-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tolkien_1916\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Tolkien_1916-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Tolkien_1916.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>John Ronald Reuel <\/strong><strong>T<\/strong><strong>olkien <\/strong><strong>(1892-1973), <\/strong>the celebrated author of <em>T<\/em><em>he<\/em><em> L<\/em><em>ord<\/em> <em>of the<\/em><em> R<\/em><em>ings<\/em> trilogy, had devoted considerable time, during his mid-twenties, to working on a book, to be called <em>N<\/em><em>umenor<\/em>, based on theAtlantis story<sup>(a)(b)<\/sup>.\u00a0 Unfortunately, around 1916, when the photo on the right was taken, he had to abandon this enterprise as he felt it had become<em> \u2018too grim\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.dbu.edu\/mitchell\/numenoratlantis.htm\">https:\/\/www3.dbu.edu\/mitchell\/numenoratlantis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050904165023\/http:\/\/www.merp.com\/essays\/MichaelMartinez\/mmartineznumenortour\">The Magical Mythical Numenor Tour \u2014 Merp.com Website (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973), the celebrated author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, had devoted considerable time, during his mid-twenties, to working on a book, to be called Numenor, based on theAtlantis story(a)(b).\u00a0 Unfortunately, around 1916, when the photo on the right was taken, he had to abandon this enterprise as he felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63967,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions\/63967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}