{"id":1153,"date":"2024-06-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:08:58","slug":"hands-on-can-lord-of-the-rings-spice-up-a-stale-genre-with-tales-of-the-shire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/hands-on-can-lord-of-the-rings-spice-up-a-stale-genre-with-tales-of-the-shire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands On: Can Lord Of The Rings Spice Up A Stale Genre With ‘Tales Of The Shire’?"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?”.<\/strong><\/p>\n Right at the beginning of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Hobbit<\/strong>, \u2018adventure\u2019 is a bit of a dirty word.<\/p>\n When the wizard Gandalf first meets the timid Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving, tobacco-smoking Hobbit, he asks, \u201cI am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it\u2019s very difficult to find anyone.\u201d<\/em> Bilbo\u2019s reply?<\/p>\n