{"id":3101,"date":"2009-05-10T15:21:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T15:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2009-05-10T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T15:21:50","slug":"the-hunt-for-gollum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3101","title":{"rendered":"The Hunt for Gollum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe that this was an amateur production. For film making, this is akin to what the first great blogs were to publishing, a tipping point moment toward <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/writings\/weblogs_publishing.html\">mass amateurization<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"height\" value=\"225\" \/><param name=\"width\" value=\"400\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2567014&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2567014&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2567014\">THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM &#8211; FULL Trailer 1<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/thehuntforgollum\">Independent Online Cinema<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I watched the full 40 minute film a few days ago on my computer at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thehuntforgollum.s3.amazonaws.com\/index.html\"><strong>The Hunt for Gollum<\/strong> <\/a>website, it was impressive. Incidentally, the creators had permission from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/home\/\">Tolkien Estate <\/a>to proceed as a non-profit venture and gave<strong> J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s<\/strong> vision, mostly culled from extant writings, notes and appendixes, a respectful treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scholarsandrogues.com\/2009\/05\/08\/hobbits-wizards-and-storm-troopers-the-future-of-fan-art\/\">Scholars &amp; Rogues<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe that this was an amateur production. For film making, this is akin to what the first great blogs were to publishing, a tipping point moment toward mass amateurization: THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM &#8211; FULL Trailer 1 from Independent Online Cinema on Vimeo. I watched the full 40 minute film a few days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,68,78,139,67,581],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fun","category-ideas","category-media","category-movies","category-tolkien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}