{"id":1574,"date":"2018-01-01T16:14:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T16:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2021-03-01T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T21:16:05","slug":"prelude-to-faery-two-tales-by-j-r-r-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2018\/01\/01\/prelude-to-faery-two-tales-by-j-r-r-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"Prelude to &#8216;Faery&#8217;\u2014Two Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Chad Chisholm, CIFC Director<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The following video lecture discusses two lesser-known stories by renowned author J.R.R. Tolkien\u2014<em>Smith of Wootton Major<\/em> and <em>Farmer Giles of Ham<\/em>. Our conversation will explore the following questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n \t<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/p>\n<li>What is \u2018faery\u2019 and why does Tolkien feel the need to distinguish it from the fairy tales we are familiar with today?<\/li>\n<li>Since there is only a fleeting mention of religion in Tolkien\u2019s fiction, how can we discern that the author\u2019s faith is indeed influencing his work?<\/li>\n<li>Can <em>Smith of Wootton Major<\/em> and <em>Farmer Giles of Ham<\/em> serve as metafictional commentaries for much of Tolkien\u2019s fiction?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ENGL 2203 - Smith of Wootton Major\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_fAyQ2_1BSo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Chisholm, CIFC Director The following video lecture discusses two lesser-known stories by renowned author J.R.R. Tolkien\u2014Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham. Our conversation will explore the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340],"tags":[96,357,358],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literary-studies","tag-best-of-christian-writers","tag-tolkien","tag-video","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}