{"id":185,"date":"2012-06-25T13:50:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2012-06-25T13:50:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T11:50:48","slug":"precious-tattoos-from-the-lord-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattatattoo.com\/precious-tattoos-from-the-lord-of-the-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"“Precious” Tattoos from The Lord of the Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"
In 1937 JRR Tolkien penned his classic children’s novel\u00a0The Hobbit.\u00a0The fantasy book was so popular that Tolkien quickly began work on a sequel. At first,\u00a0The Lord of the Rings\u00a0was intended to be a short novel that followed on from\u00a0The Hobbit, but over time, it developed into an epic fantasy trilogy. The original manuscript of\u00a0The Lord of the Rings\u00a0numbered a whopping 9,250 pages.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fantasy stories first appeared in print in the mid 1800s, with books like Lewis Carroll’s\u00a0Alice in Wonderland\u00a0(1865).\u00a0The Hobbit\u00a0and the\u00a0Lord of the Rings\u00a0trilogy were among the first fantasy novels to create an entire world for the characters to exist in, not a world of imagination, as in\u00a0Alice in Wonderland, but a magical place that existed somewhere nearby but out of reach. Tolkien called his fantasy world Middle-earth, driving home the idea that the world is close by.<\/p>\nLOTR Tattoos bring Middle-Earth to Skin<\/h1>\n