{"id":1319,"date":"2007-09-12T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2007-09-12T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T16:00:24","slug":"dmotr-deleted-scenes-2original-lothlorien-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"DMotR Deleted Scenes 2:<BR\/>Original Lothlorien Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My original plan for DMotR was to just run a few strips.  I had a small story arc planned, which was going to end in Amon Hen somewhere around strip 25 or so.   I actually had all 25 done by the time I had strip 14 up.   At this point I realized I wanted to keep making them, but my story was &#8220;finished&#8221;.  So, I started inserting strips into the original arc. I eventually doubled the number of strips they spent in Moria.  After that I added several strips in Lothlorien, which they skipped in my original arc. Finally I scrapped my original ending for the series and decided to tackle all three movies. <\/p>\n<p>Below is the strip where they skipped Lothlorien.   You might notice that I actually cut this joke up and recycled bits of it elsewhere.  I had a blurb to go with this comic about how players always skip the most detailed stuff you&#8217;ve prepared and head for the blank areas of the map.  I held onto that blurb for another 80 strips &#8211; about half a year &#8211; before I managed to work it in at the end of <a href=\"?p=1144\">strip 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_bonus2.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='You are SKIPPING Lothlorien?!?' title='You are SKIPPING Lothlorien?!?'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My original plan for DMotR was to just run a few strips. I had a small story arc planned, which was going to end in Amon Hen somewhere around strip 25 or so. I actually had all 25 done by the time I had strip 14 up. At this point I realized I wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","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=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}