{"id":46737,"date":"2019-01-31T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46737"},"modified":"2019-01-29T20:57:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T01:57:58","slug":"lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-extra-sci-fi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/lord-of-the-rings-the-two-towers-extra-sci-fi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the Rings &#8211; The Two Towers &#8211; Extra Sci Fi &#8211; #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/itYfBiB3bmM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Extra Credits<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 29 Jan 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tolkien&#8217;s writing was majorly influenced by the world he lived in &mdash; the concerns of World War II and the aftermath thereof were reflected in the themes of industrialization, more highly nuanced good-and-evil, and &#8220;questing&#8221; that <em>The Two Towers<\/em> emphasizes.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Two Towers<\/em> presents one big theme that impacted science fiction: industrialization. Isengard really brought into popularity the whole idea of &#8220;if you don&#8217;t treat nature with respect, you&#8217;ll be doomed by nature&#8217;s wrath.&#8221;\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra Credits Published on 29 Jan 2019 Tolkien&#8217;s writing was majorly influenced by the world he lived in &mdash; the concerns of World War II and the aftermath thereof were reflected in the themes of industrialization, more highly nuanced good-and-evil, and &#8220;questing&#8221; that The Two Towers emphasizes. The Two Towers presents one big theme that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[32,65,28],"tags":[868,85],"class_list":["post-46737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-environment","category-media","tag-jrrtolkien","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c9P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46737","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=46737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46738,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46737\/revisions\/46738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}