{"id":236543,"date":"2013-12-22T15:43:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T15:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/22\/maire-annatari-alan-lees-paintings-of-smaug\/"},"modified":"2018-09-29T08:14:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T08:14:17","slug":"maire-annatari-alan-lees-paintings-of-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/22\/maire-annatari-alan-lees-paintings-of-smaug\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-236543 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/22\/maire-annatari-alan-lees-paintings-of-smaug\/attachment\/236544\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mo8t80k7Hd1s6vfqzo1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mo8t80k7Hd1s6vfqzo1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mo8t80k7Hd1s6vfqzo1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/22\/maire-annatari-alan-lees-paintings-of-smaug\/attachment\/236545\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mo8t80k7Hd1s6vfqzo2_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mo8t80k7Hd1s6vfqzo2_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mo8t80k7Hd1s6vfqzo2_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/22\/maire-annatari-alan-lees-paintings-of-smaug\/attachment\/236546\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mo8t80k7Hd1s6vfqzo3_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mo8t80k7Hd1s6vfqzo3_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mo8t80k7Hd1s6vfqzo3_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/maire-annatari.tumblr.com\/post\/52725758560\/alan-lees-paintings-of-smaug-from-an-illustrated\" target=\"_blank\">maire-annatari<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Alan Lee\u2019s paintings of Smaug, from an illustrated edition of\u00a0<em>The Hobbit.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; a thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber. \u00a0Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014J. R. R. Tolkien,<em> The Hobbit, <\/em>chapter XII.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>With a shriek that deafened men, felled trees and split stone, Smaug shot spouting into the air, turned over and crashed down from on high in ruin.<\/p>\n<p>Full on the town he fell. \u00a0His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes. \u00a0The lake roared in. \u00a0A vast steam leaped up, white in the sudden dark under the moon. \u00a0There was a hiss, a gushing whirl, and then silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J. R. R. Tolkien, <em>The Hobbit,<\/em> chapter XIV.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>maire-annatari: Alan Lee\u2019s paintings of Smaug, from an illustrated edition of\u00a0The Hobbit. There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; a thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber. \u00a0Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/22\/maire-annatari-alan-lees-paintings-of-smaug\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1113,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236547,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236543\/revisions\/236547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}