{"id":3405,"date":"2016-04-23T16:04:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2016-04-26T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:52:19","slug":"laurelin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/laurelin\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurelin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pondering the Two Trees from J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s Silmarillion lately, or I should say I&#8217;ve been pondering how they would look and what form they would take &#8211; not only that I&#8217;ve been pondering how much light there would have been to see them by, the quality of the light&#8230;. In fact I&#8217;ve been pondering far too much \ud83d\ude09 Anyway, I thought this passage &#8220;&#8230;as they watched, upon the mound there came forth two slender shoots; and silence was over all the world in that hour, nor was there any other sound save the chanting of Yavanna.&#8221; from Chapter 1 of The Silmarillion was worth attempting, so I did \ud83d\ude42 This was something of a departure from my normal technique, I decided to try combining one of my photographs with a bit of digital doodling in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/graeme_laurelin_700.jpg\" alt=\"Laurelin\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/graeme_laurelin_700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/graeme_laurelin_700-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/graeme_laurelin_700-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pondering the Two Trees from J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s Silmarillion lately, or I should say I&#8217;ve been pondering how they would look and what form they would take &#8211; not only that I&#8217;ve been pondering how much light there would have been to see them by, the quality of the light&#8230;. In fact I&#8217;ve been pondering far too much \ud83d\ude09 Anyway, I thought this passage &#8220;&#8230;as they watched, upon the mound there came forth two slender shoots; and silence was over all the world in that hour, nor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67,19],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a","tag-silmarillion","tag-tolkien"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}