{"id":121,"date":"2018-03-05T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/?p=121"},"modified":"2018-03-05T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:14:35","slug":"tolkiens-own-appendix-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/2018\/03\/05\/tolkiens-own-appendix-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien&#8217;s Own Appendix N"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When working on my post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/2018\/03\/05\/hooked-on-appendix-n\/\">D&amp;D&#8217;s Appendix N<\/a> I thought about other great works whose lists of inspirations are now known.\u00a0 JRR Tolkien&#8217;s Lord of the Rings was inspired by ten books.\u00a0 This list of inspirational works was not only compiled but also republished by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leavesofgoldpress.com\/\">Leaves of Gold Press<\/a>.\u00a0 This publisher in Brighton near Melbourne, Australia is making Tolkien&#8217;s Bookshelf available.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Song of the Nibelungs<\/strong> (13th century Germanic epic)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Poetic Edda<\/strong> translated by Olive Bray<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Story of the Glittering Plain<\/strong> by William Morris (1891)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Red Fairy Book<\/strong> edited by Andrew Lang<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Princess and the Goblin<\/strong> by George MacDonald (1872)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Saga of Eric Brighteyes<\/strong> by H. Rider Haggard (1890)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dragon Ouroboros<\/strong> by Eric Rucker Eddison (1922)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Book of Wonder and The Last Book of Wonder<\/strong> by Lord Dunsany (1912)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Story of King Arthur and His Knights<\/strong> by Howard Pyle<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grimms\u2019 Fairytales<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When working on my post on D&amp;D&#8217;s Appendix N I thought about other great works whose lists of inspirations are now known.\u00a0 JRR Tolkien&#8217;s Lord of the Rings was inspired by ten books.\u00a0 This list of inspirational works was not only compiled but also republished by\u00a0Leaves of Gold Press.\u00a0 This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[21,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}