{"id":1118,"date":"2007-05-07T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2007-05-07T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T21:00:51","slug":"anti-dwarfisim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Dwarfisim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This whole DM of the Rings project has just about ruined the movies for me.  I loved the movies when I saw them the first time, but now that I&#8217;ve stepped through them frame-by-frame, and listened to sections of dialog repeatedly while at the same time reading the books, I must say the movies have begun to grate.  Case in point:<\/p>\n<p><table width='300'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='right'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/rotk_legolas_drinking.jpg' class='insetimage' width='300' alt='rotk_legolas_drinking.jpg' title='rotk_legolas_drinking.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table>I&#8217;ve come across the scene in Return of the King where Legolas effortlessly drinks Gimli under the table.  I could barely get through it.  Is Peter Jackson some kind of Dwarf-hater?  What would possess someone to write this scene, which goes against everything we know about both Dwarves and Elves.  (Aside from the preposterous idea that an Elf could win such a contest, and that he would stoop to doing so, are we to believe that Legolas has lived for thousands of years and has never <em>heard<\/em> of drinking games?)  Why not take out this ham-fisted scene and instead have them make the bargain to return to Fangorn and Helm&#8217;s Deep once their journeys are over?  It would have made both characters deeper, and would have pleased fans of the book instead of offending them.<\/p>\n<p>If I posted gripes like the one above every time the movie got on my nerves then we would have gripe updates more often than DM of the Rings.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This whole DM of the Rings project has just about ruined the movies for me. I loved the movies when I saw them the first time, but now that I&#8217;ve stepped through them frame-by-frame, and listened to sections of dialog repeatedly while at the same time reading the books, I must say the movies have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}