{"id":898,"date":"2009-06-30T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2013-06-21T13:57:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T17:57:44","slug":"tolkien-read-books-above-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien, Read Books Above You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SkreR-N54PI\/AAAAAAAAAgw\/HoSykGeI5wU\/s1600-h\/tolkien.jpg\"><img id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353335507423715570\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; cursor: hand; height: 194px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_xECWNO6yc9I\/SkreR-N54PI\/AAAAAAAAAgw\/HoSykGeI5wU\/s200\/tolkien.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>I recently came across a great comment from one of J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s letters (written in April 1959). Tolkien is advocating reading books with more difficult books to children rather than confining the reading to easier books. Tolkien states:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one&#8217;s age-group. It comes from reading books above one.&#8221;\u009d <span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">(<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0618056998?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0618056998\"><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"qlylavcfogvqobwuuazr\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0618056998\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, cited in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0395957990?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0395957990\"><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">Roverandom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"qlylavcfogvqobwuuazr\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0395957990\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, xvi).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great point!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across a great comment from one of J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s letters (written in April 1959). Tolkien is advocating reading books with more difficult books to children rather than confining the reading to easier books. Tolkien states: &#8220;A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=898\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Tolkien, Read Books Above You&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":[42,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3083,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}