{"id":1297,"date":"2012-09-17T11:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2012-09-17T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:08:25","slug":"life-expectancy-on-middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/17\/life-expectancy-on-middle-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Expectancy On Middle-Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graphed (click to enlarge):<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailydish.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451c45669e2017c31cb940e970b-pi\" style=\"display:inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"St_hobbit_genealogy_1000px\" src=\"http:\/\/dailydish.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451c45669e2017c31cb940e970b-550wi\" style=\"width:515px\" title=\"St_hobbit_genealogy_1000px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amber Williams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2012\/09\/st_hobbit_genealogy\/\">applauds<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0the work of Emil Johannson, the proprietor of <a href=\"http:\/\/lotrproject.com\/\">lotrproject.com<\/a>, perhaps the most neurotically wonderful resource for Tolkien fans imaginable:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Johansson is on a quest to track every character from Tolkien\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<br \/>\nfictional world. He started by creating a massive family tree, and from<br \/>\nthere he crafted an interactive map of Middle-earth and a timeline of<br \/>\nevents in Tolkien\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stories. He has even performed statistical analyses<br \/>\non the characters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 race, lifespan, and gender. Johansson points out that<br \/>\n the lopsided gender split (81 percent male, 19 percent female) reflects<br \/>\n the world Tolkien included in his tales of the ultimate war, but<br \/>\nprobably not Middle-earth in its entirety.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/andrewsullivan\/rApM?a=cEtVRzfPFCg:MYwuCtEZM_0:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/andrewsullivan\/rApM?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/andrewsullivan\/rApM\/~4\/cEtVRzfPFCg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/09\/life-expectancy-on-middle-earth.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29\">http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/09\/life-expectancy-on-middle-earth.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphed (click to enlarge): Amber Williams applauds\u00c2\u00a0the work of Emil Johannson, the proprietor of lotrproject.com, perhaps the most neurotically wonderful resource for Tolkien fans imaginable: Johansson is on a quest to track every character from Tolkien\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fictional world. He started by creating a massive family tree, and from there he crafted an interactive map of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/17\/life-expectancy-on-middle-earth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life Expectancy On Middle-Earth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[182,6,183],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-andrew-sullivan","tag-ifttt","tag-the-daily-dish-by-andrew-sullivan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-kV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}