{"id":9567,"date":"2010-01-04T20:21:53","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T03:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2010-01-04T20:21:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T03:21:53","slug":"a-jrrt-birthday-post-from-grognardia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/a-jrrt-birthday-post-from-grognardia\/","title":{"rendered":"A JRRT Birthday Post From Grognardia<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Maliszewski<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday, James Maliszewski, proprieter of the Grognardia<\/em> website, as well as a Friend of the Cimmerian,\u00a0wrote up a thoughtful birthday post<\/a> regarding Tollers. Primarily, the entry is concerned with the influence of the appendices for The Lord of the Rings<\/em> upon\u00a0James’ early role-playing gaming career. It’s a worthy piece and I advise the RPG-inclined to check it out.<\/p>\n

However, while not exactly a quibble, I think it worth mentioning that Tolkien did not in reality “box in” or\u00a0over-explicate\u00a0his sub-creation of Middle-earth as much as some surmise. If one excludes The Silmarillion<\/em> and considers only The Hobbit<\/em> and The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, then JRRT left vast areas of his world unexplored and saw fit to let many metaphysical questions remain unanswered. The only region given a thorough going-over was north-western Middle-earth and even that had large areas about which little was revealed, whether in the tales themselves or in the appendices.<\/p>\n

In contrast, Robert E. Howard had Conan personally visit\u00a0many more far-flung regions (though it appears Aragorn came close to matching the Cimmerian\u00a0in his own wanderings). In Howard’s (barely) post-Hyborian Age yarn, “Marchers of Valhalla<\/a>,” he had\u00a0Hialmar’s \u00c6sir war-band nearly circumnavigate the globe on foot<\/em>. In addition, while no official ‘appendix,’ REH’s “The Hyborian Age” essay goes a long way towards fulfilling that function.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just something that occurred to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, James Maliszewski, proprieter of the Grognardia website, as well as a Friend of the Cimmerian,\u00a0wrote up a thoughtful birthday post regarding Tollers. Primarily, the entry is concerned with the influence of the appendices for The Lord of the Rings upon\u00a0James’ early role-playing gaming career. It’s a worthy piece and I advise the RPG-inclined to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,77,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming-and-reh","category-the-world-of-tolkien","category-pre-cataclysmichyborian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9569,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions\/9569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}