{"id":23767,"date":"2011-11-15T21:42:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T04:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=23767"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:05:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:05:03","slug":"as-the-third-age-goes-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/as-the-third-age-goes-by.html","title":{"rendered":"As the Third Age goes by &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unearthed! The hitherto-unknown adaptation of <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> by Warner Brothers in the 1940s, starring Humphrey Bogart as Frodo Baggins!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yUf8reRSImk\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not without flaws, but most worthy of applause for its audaciousness, by gad! \u00a0And as my own contribution to the concept &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>You must remember this,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It dwells in Imladris,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s sought by Sauron&#8217;s Eye &#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You&#8217;ll really hate the Nazg\u00fbl&#8217;s cry<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As the Third Age goes by &#8230;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Play it again, Samwise!<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/neilhimself\/status\/136647231200694272\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unearthed! The hitherto-unknown adaptation of The Lord of the Rings by Warner Brothers in the 1940s, starring Humphrey Bogart as Frodo Baggins! Not without flaws, but most worthy of applause for its audaciousness, by gad! \u00a0And as my own contribution to the concept &#8230; You must remember this, It dwells in Imladris, It&#8217;s sought by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/as-the-third-age-goes-by.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As the Third Age goes by &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,382,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138134,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/10\/welcome-to-the-second-age-of-middle-earth.html","url_meta":{"origin":23767,"position":0},"title":"Welcome to the Second Age of Middle-earth &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 10-Mar-19 3:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If Amazon's Middle-earth series is going to be set in the Second Age ... 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