{"id":5674,"date":"2014-01-08T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2014-01-08T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:44:27","slug":"reading-papers-in-elvish-or-dwarvish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5674","title":{"rendered":"Reading papers in Elvish (or Dwarvish)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/middle-earth.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5676\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/middle-earth-300x204.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/middle-earth-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/middle-earth-1024x698.png 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/middle-earth.png 1205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isgtw.org\/spotlight\/one-climate-model-rule-them-all\">stumbled across some new research<\/a> by climatologist Dan Lunt, who applied modern climate models to the geography and topography of Middle Earth. Yes, Tolkien&#8217;s Middle Earth, where hobbits, elves, dwarves, dragons, ents, orcs and other creatures live.<\/p>\n<p>Prepared for possible interest by non-human readers, Lunt (writing under the pseudonym Radagast the Brown&#8230; or may be he *is* Radagast the Brown?) helpfully provided translations of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/university\/media\/press\/10013-english.pdf\">his paper<\/a> into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/university\/media\/press\/10013-elvish.pdf\">Elvish<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/university\/media\/press\/10013-dwarfish.pdf\">Dwarvish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but notice, though, that the list of references is missing from the translations.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I wonder&#8230; does Google Translate know Elvish and Dwarvish?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5674' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just stumbled across some new research by climatologist Dan Lunt, who applied modern climate models to the geography and topography of Middle Earth. Yes, Tolkien&#8217;s Middle Earth, where hobbits, elves, dwarves, dragons, ents, orcs and other creatures live. Prepared for possible interest by non-human readers, Lunt (writing under the pseudonym Radagast the Brown&#8230; or <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5674' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-weather","category-9-id","category-34-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5679,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions\/5679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}