{"id":48749,"date":"2014-12-09T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/precious-in-translation.html"},"modified":"2014-12-09T18:11:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T01:11:50","slug":"precious-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/precious-in-translation.html","title":{"rendered":""Precious" In Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that's comedy.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Jay Gischer<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I loved this whole piece. But the sentence that made me whoop so loudly that the crows outside my office (which may or may not be from Dunland) fluttered and squawked was this: <\/p>\n

The only similar case I found was The Estate of S. Morgenstern v. William Goldman over the latter’s abridged version of The Princess Bride.<\/i><\/p>\n

I'm not going to explain this, if you don't get it, I highly recommend that you read the book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n<\/a>
\nHow I Defeated the Tolkien Estate<\/a><\/span>
\nThe story of how one brave soul defended his right to translate the Red Book of Westmarch in court against the powers of the Tolkien estate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that's comedy. Originally shared by +Jay Gischer: I loved this whole piece. But the sentence that made me whoop so loudly that the crows outside my office (which may or may not be from Dunland) fluttered and squawked was this: The only similar case I found was The Estate of S. Morgenstern v. William … Continue reading “"Precious" In Translation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,79,382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-intellectual-property","category-lord-of-the-rings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48836,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48749\/revisions\/48836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}