{"id":3247,"date":"2003-01-07T14:06:34","date_gmt":"2003-01-07T19:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:11:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:11:26","slug":"todays_winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/07\/todays_winning.html","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s winning <i>LotR<\/i>y number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Galadriel\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/galadriel.jpg\" width=\"163\" height=\"235\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>Okay, that was kind of a lame subject line.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, these scanned pics from <i>next<\/i> year&#8217;s <i>LotR <\/i>calendar (i.e., with pics from <i>RotK<\/i>) are, well, <a title=\"Lord of the Rings Movies Information | TheOneRing.net%u2122 | News Archives\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/perl\/newsview\/2\/1041895042\">very cool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gandalf swinging about Glamdring with abandon.<\/p>\n<p>Frodo in Shelob&#8217;s lair (with the Vial of Galadriel?!).<\/p>\n<p>Sam cradling Frodo.<\/p>\n<p>Denethor looking too clever for his own good.<\/p>\n<p>My only gripe:  Eowyn in a dress, looking wistful.  Unless showing her otherwise would be a spoiler &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And let me say this about one other pic, shown at the right.  I know some folks have griped over <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Blanchett,%20Cate\">Cate Blanchett <\/a>as Galadriel, and it is true that she is not a classic beauty model like <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Tyler,%20Liv\">Liv Tyler<\/a>.   But, damn, I love her voice, and her wise\/gentle\/amused\/<i>knowing<\/i> smile is just plain ol&#8217; perfect.  The Lady of the Golden Wood is certainly someone to both worship and fear &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Good casting, sez I.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spleenville.com\/journal\/archives\/000763.php\">Andrea<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, that was kind of a lame subject line. On the other hand, these scanned pics from next year&#8217;s LotR calendar (i.e., with pics from RotK) are, well, very cool&#8230;.<\/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":[382,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155739,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/21\/movie-review-fellowship-of-the-ring-again-2001.html","url_meta":{"origin":3247,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &#8220;Fellowship of the Ring&#8221; again (2001)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Dec-21 1:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Twenty years later, I still love these movies, especially the first one.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lord of the Rings \/ Hobbit&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lord of the Rings \/ Hobbit","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/lord-of-the-rings"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fellowship of the Ring poster","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fellowship-of-the-Ring-poster.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fellowship-of-the-Ring-poster.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fellowship-of-the-Ring-poster.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fellowship-of-the-Ring-poster.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4797,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/05\/another_quarter.html","url_meta":{"origin":3247,"position":1},"title":"Another quarter heard from","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Jan-04 8:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Andrea Harris is in new quarters, and she's got a nice not-yet-a-review set of comments on RotK (natch). 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