{"id":1790,"date":"2025-12-25T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:43:32","slug":"de-betekenis-van-kerstmis-volgens-j-j-r-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/?p=1790","title":{"rendered":"De betekenis van Kerstmis, volgens J.R.R.  Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large\"><p>\u201cIf you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>J.R.R. Tolkien,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/3462747\">Letters from Father Christmas<\/a>, 1931<\/p><p>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large\"><p><em>The lord of snows upreared his head;<\/em><br><em>His mantle long and pale<\/em><br><em>Upon the bitter blast was spread<\/em><br><em>And hung o\u2019er hill and dale.<\/em><br><em>The world was blind,<\/em><br><em>the boughs were bent,<\/em><br><em>All ways and paths were wild:<\/em><br><em>Then the veil of cloud apart was rent,<\/em><br><em>And here was born a Child.<\/em><br><br><strong>J.R.R Tolkien<\/strong>, <em>Noel<\/em> (2e stanza) 1936<\/p><p>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large\"><p><em>\u201cWell here comes Christmas! That astonishing thing that no \u2018commercialism\u2019 can in fact defile \u2013 unless you let it.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p><strong>J.R.R. Tolkien<\/strong> to his son Michael in a letter dated 19 December 1962<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.\u201d J.R.R. Tolkien,\u00a0Letters from Father Christmas, 1931 The lord of snows upreared his head;His mantle long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elanor.deliverance.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}