{"id":4996,"date":"2003-11-18T10:14:21","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:11:08","slug":"the_two_towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/18\/the_two_towers.html","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Two Towers<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451456866\/davedoesthebl-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00009TB5G.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" class=\"right\" border=0 \/><\/a>For those who didn&#8217;t order it via Amazon.com back in October with Super-Saver Free Shipping, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00009TB5G?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\"><i>The Lord of the Rings &#8211; The Two Towers <\/i>(Platinum Series Special Extended Edition) (Widescreen)<\/a> is out today.  An extra 43 minutes of Middle-Earthian goodness, along with all the other 90 hours of documentary stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well, just as well &#8212; I don&#8217;t have any free time to watch it this week, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Next in the release queue:  <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000AQS0F?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\">Firefly <\/a><\/i>and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00005JM5E?&#038;tag=davedoesthebl-20\">Pirates of the Caribbean <\/a><\/i>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdharris.net\/archives\/2003_11.html#003008\">Ipse Dixit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><u><b>UPDATE<\/b><\/u>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespy.com\/comics\/dorktower\/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&#038;id=812\">Other folks weigh in <\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who didn&#8217;t order it via Amazon.com back in October with Super-Saver Free Shipping, The Lord of the Rings &#8211; The Two Towers (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition) (Widescreen)&#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-4996","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":462,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/10\/adrenaline_rush.html","url_meta":{"origin":4996,"position":0},"title":"ADRENALINE RUSH!!!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Apr-03 1:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Quoth Tolkien Online: According to an interview in the Official Lord of the Rings Fanclub Magazine, Peter Jackson has confirmed that The Two Towers Special Edition will come in at...","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":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":400,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/20\/and_now_for_som-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":4996,"position":1},"title":"And now for some important news &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 20-Apr-03 10:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Release info for The Two Towers DVD. 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