{"id":3276,"date":"2013-12-14T11:15:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2013-12-14T11:15:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T19:15:23","slug":"late-antiquity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3276","title":{"rendered":"late antiquity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2013\/12\/the_hobbit_and_lord_of_the_rings_movies_new_zealand_was_the_wrong_filming.html\">An argument is offered<\/a> that New Zealand is the wrong place to film Tolkien&#8217;s works: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> One of Tolkien\u2019s great accomplishments was making Middle-earth seem vividly <em>old<\/em>. Wherever the reader looks, ruins and crumbling statues poke through the lichen. [&#8230;] <\/p>\n<p>To do justice to Tolkien\u2014to capture the essence of Middle-earth\u2014a filmmaker needs to convey that sensibility. And the problem with New Zealand is that it is decidedly young\u2014both <a href=\"http:\/\/activeadventures.com\/new-zealand\/about\/geography\/geology-of-new-zealand\">geologically<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_zealand#History\">as a place inhabited by people<\/a>. [&#8230;] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The criticism of tone is valid, but on the other hand: our world is, by definition, older than Bilbo&#8217;s; Tolkien had no grasp of geology anyway; Eriador has been depopulated (why?) for a thousand years by Bilbo&#8217;s time, and Rhovanion always was relatively empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An argument is offered that New Zealand is the wrong place to film Tolkien&#8217;s works: One of Tolkien\u2019s great accomplishments was making Middle-earth seem vividly old. Wherever the reader looks, ruins and crumbling statues poke through the lichen. [&#8230;] To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=3276\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3277,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions\/3277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}