{"id":12251,"date":"2011-11-27T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12251"},"modified":"2011-11-27T12:33:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T16:33:34","slug":"scalzi-tweets-the-lord-of-the-rings-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/27\/scalzi-tweets-the-lord-of-the-rings-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Scalzi tweets the <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stream of consciousness tweets as <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2011\/11\/27\/lord-of-the-tweets\/#more-16881\" target=\"_blank\">John Scalzi<\/a> has an at-home movie marathon:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Mimes of Moria\u201d is the name of my next band.<\/p>\n<p>Wife is at a rock concert tonight. I\u2019m watching cable TV at home. Thus are illustrated the differences between us.<\/p>\n<p>OSHA clearly has no jurisdiction in Moria.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The Two Towers now I on. I hold the minority view that it is the best film of the trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I\u2019d&#8217;ve trimmed back the ent scenes pretty severely.<\/p>\n<p>I SWEAR I did not realize I was making a tree pun in that last tweet.<\/p>\n<p>I am suddenly aware of just how little difference there is between Orlando Bloom\u2019s Legolas and certain sparkly vampires one could name.<\/p>\n<p>Orcs vs. Stormtroopers. GO. On second thought, never mind. Neither side aims well enough for it to be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: Shadowfax, the horse Gandalf rides, had a younger, hipper sibling named \u201cDarktweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what dentists think when they look at Orcs. I suspect \u201cthat\u2019s a sailboat right there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They could have just distracted the Wargs by throwing a bunch of red bouncy balls and yelling \u201cfetch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The orcs would be awesome in a Road Warrior movie. The orcs probably WERE in a Road Warrior movie.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stream of consciousness tweets as John Scalzi has an at-home movie marathon: \u201cThe Mimes of Moria\u201d is the name of my next band. Wife is at a rock concert tonight. I\u2019m watching cable TV at home. Thus are illustrated the differences between us. OSHA clearly has no jurisdiction in Moria. [. . .] The Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[122,310],"class_list":["post-12251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-movies","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3bB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12252,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions\/12252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}