{"id":84828,"date":"2025-10-16T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84828\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:53:06","slug":"penn-state-altoona-graduate-explores-tolkiens-ruins-and-relics-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/84828\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Altoona graduate explores Tolkien\u2019s ruins and relics in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALTOONA, Pa. \u2014 Penn State Altoona alumnus Carl Sell has co-edited the new book \u201cTolkien&#8217;s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This collection attempts to provide a more comprehensive approach to J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s legendarium.<\/p>\n<p>Sell also co-wrote the book\u2019s introduction and wrote the chapter \u201cThe Blade of the King: Tolkien, Arthur, and the Remnants of Kingship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of Penn State Altoona\u2019s English program, Sell is associate director for McNair and Undergraduate Research Programs at the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALTOONA, Pa. \u2014 Penn State Altoona alumnus Carl Sell has co-edited the new book \u201cTolkien&#8217;s Medievalism in Ruins:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-84828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}