{"id":962,"date":"2007-02-15T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=962"},"modified":"2007-03-10T23:09:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T04:09:28","slug":"dm-of-the-rings-lxivoverly-requited-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"DM of the Rings LXIV:<br\/>A Shocking Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr64a.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Team Stupid. Wormtongue is a spy. Confusing Plot.' title='Team Stupid. Wormtongue is a spy. Confusing Plot.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><br \/>\n<table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_lotr64b.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='Team Stupid. Wormtongue is a spy. Confusing Plot.' title='Team Stupid. Wormtongue is a spy. Confusing Plot.'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>In the comments of the previous strip, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=951#comment-49473\">said<\/a>, &#8220;<i>In hindsight, the ideal thing would have been to cast Aragorn as a dumb, distracted stoner. He spends about half of the movie blinking very, very slowly. I can come up with a shot of him looking baked or mouth-open stoopid in just about any scene. I should make a &#8220;I am so high&#8221; montage out of all these shots.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The amount of screen time he spends in a vacant stare or a prolonged blink is sort of alarming.  I&#8217;ve come to think of him as Stareagorn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the comments of the previous strip, I said, &#8220;In hindsight, the ideal thing would have been to cast Aragorn as a dumb, distracted stoner. He spends about half of the movie blinking very, very slowly. I can come up with a shot of him looking baked or mouth-open stoopid in just about any scene. [&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-962","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\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}