{"id":1316,"date":"2007-09-05T20:10:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T00:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2007-09-05T20:10:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T00:10:26","slug":"on-balrog-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"On Balrog Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m reading <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewrilstone.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/tolkien-blues.html\">this long and lengthy analysis on <i>The Children of Hurin<\/i>, <i>The Silmarillion<\/i>, and <i>The History of the Hobbit<\/i><\/a>, and I have but one thing to say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Balrogs have wings.  Because wings look cooler.  And because Peter Jackson says so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m reading this long and lengthy analysis on The Children of Hurin, The Silmarillion, and The History of the Hobbit, and I have but one thing to say&#8230; Balrogs have wings. Because wings look cooler. And because Peter Jackson says so. &#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[368],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien","tag-lord-of-the-rings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}