{"id":544,"date":"2003-10-17T10:09:49","date_gmt":"2003-10-17T10:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=544"},"modified":"2003-10-17T10:09:49","modified_gmt":"2003-10-17T10:09:49","slug":"tolkien-had-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2003\/10\/tolkien-had-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien had it right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In watching the <i>Two Towers<\/i> again, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that Arwen didn&#8217;t figure into the books for a reason.<br \/>\nFirst movie, where it&#8217;s just her face glommed over another character&#8217;s (Glorfindel&#8217;s) lines, then it didn&#8217;t matter &#8212; it worked, because it was just a different name on a pre-existing role.<br \/>\n<i>Two Towers<\/i>, her stuff is completely fabricated by lesser writers; irrelevant parts that make me sleepy whenever they come on &#8212; even the very first time I saw the flick, and even moreso now.  Thankfully, DVD&#8217;s have scene skip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In watching the Two Towers again, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that Arwen didn&#8217;t figure into the books for a reason. First movie, where it&#8217;s just her face glommed over another character&#8217;s (Glorfindel&#8217;s) lines, then it didn&#8217;t matter &#8212; it worked, because it was just a different name on a pre-existing role. Two Towers, her &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2003\/10\/tolkien-had-it-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tolkien had it right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-fanboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}