{"id":648,"date":"2015-01-11T18:54:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T23:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2015-01-11T18:58:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T23:58:59","slug":"the-last-ringbearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"The Last Ringbearer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded over the weekend about The Last Ringbearer while talking with my buddy <a title=\"Sam\" href=\"http:\/\/jonesling.us\/blog\/?p=637\">Sam<\/a>, who likes The Lord Of the Rings but had never heard of TLR.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Too Long, Didn't Read\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read\" target=\"_blank\">tl;dr<\/a> version is it&#8217;s LOTR as told by the losing side.\u00a0 I enjoyed LTR more than LOTR because it provides more context to the events &#8211; the political manoeuvring and intrigue, about-faces, and a far more rational\u00a0 explanation for why the battles portrayed in LOTR are so important.<\/p>\n<p>The original is in Russian, but the English translation is &#8220;non-commerical&#8221; (the translator&#8217;s words) and is free.\u00a0 It can be found at <a title=\"The Last Ringbearer, english translator's page\" href=\"http:\/\/ymarkov.livejournal.com\/270570.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ymarkov.livejournal.com\/270570.html<\/a> where the translator provides backstory for why TLR exists and why the translation is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded over the weekend about The Last Ringbearer while talking with my buddy Sam, who likes The Lord Of the Rings but had never heard of TLR. The tl;dr version is it&#8217;s LOTR as told by the losing side.\u00a0 I enjoyed LTR more than LOTR because it provides more context to the events &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=648\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Last Ringbearer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,73,72],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluff","tag-books","tag-lotr","tag-sam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-as","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}