{"id":1601,"date":"2010-12-22T01:18:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T05:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2013-06-17T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T16:26:03","slug":"tolkien-old-norse-poetry-and-preaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien, Old Norse Poetry and Preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/legend-of-sigurd-and-gudrun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1602\" title=\"legend of sigurd and gudrun\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/legend-of-sigurd-and-gudrun.jpg\" width=\"102\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>J. R. R. Tolkien was captivated by Old Norse poetry and described it this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Old Norse poetry aims at <em>seizing a situation<\/em>, striking a blow that will be remembered, illuminating a moment with a flash of lightning- and tends to concision, weighty packing of the language in sense and form &#8230;&#8221;\u009d (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0547273428?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0547273428\">The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"feqppbaenvvvbzygxulq\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0547273428\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em>, 7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It strikes me that this description ought also be true of preaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. R. R. Tolkien was captivated by Old Norse poetry and described it this way: &#8220;Old Norse poetry aims at seizing a situation, striking a blow that will be remembered, illuminating a moment with a flash of lightning- and tends to concision, weighty packing of the language in sense and form &#8230;&#8221;\u009d (The Legend of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Tolkien, Old Norse Poetry and Preaching&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}