{"id":103470,"date":"2026-11-02T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103470"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:48:39","slug":"return-of-the-king-on-the-scouring-of-the-shire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/return-of-the-king-on-the-scouring-of-the-shire\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Return of the King<\/em>: On the Scouring of the Shire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PW4lzhmw8uM?si=3PiWZFdWCTt6aOq7\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 3 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Scouring of the Shire&#8221;, omitted entirely from the film, ties together many of Tolkien&#8217;s key themes. While Gondor shows us a contrast between the mythic Kings of old and the mundane Stewards that followed them, Saruman&#8217;s fall and revenge on the Shire shows the same transformation of evil, from a dark wizard in a tower to little men hiding behind titles and rules. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n03:50 Depersonalizing Authority<br \/>\n05:38 The King and the State<br \/>\n07:04 Mythic vs Mundane<br \/>\n10:28 Boromir<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 3 Jul 2026 &#8220;The Scouring of the Shire&#8221;, omitted entirely from the film, ties together many of Tolkien&#8217;s key themes. While Gondor shows us a contrast between the mythic Kings of old and the mundane Stewards that followed them, Saruman&#8217;s fall and revenge on the Shire shows the same transformation of evil, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,4,28],"tags":[1593,868,122],"class_list":["post-103470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-media","tag-feralhistorian","tag-jrrtolkien","tag-movies"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qUS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103471,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103470\/revisions\/103471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}