{"id":14717,"date":"2003-07-15T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-15T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/15\/could-the-eagles-have-flown-frodo-into-mordor\/"},"modified":"2003-07-15T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-15T11:04:00","slug":"could-the-eagles-have-flown-frodo-into-mordor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/15\/could-the-eagles-have-flown-frodo-into-mordor\/","title":{"rendered":"Could The Eagles Have Flown Frodo Into Mordor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snpp.com\/guides\/cbg.file.html\" target=\"_blank\">Comic Book Guy<\/a> Post Of The Day. &ldquo;On [the newsgroup] rec.arts.books.tolkien, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ling.upenn.edu\/~kurisuto\/eagles.html\" target=\"_blank\">periodic debate whether the eagles could have flown the Ring into Mordor<\/a>, saving Frodo and Sam the hazardous journey on foot.&rdquo;  While there are many thorough, compelling arguments for and against this statement, there is one salient point that was overlooked: Middle-Earth isn&rsquo;t real, or, as William Shatner might put it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stilldesigning.com\/shatner\/getalife_alt.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;Get a life!&rdquo;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/sounds\/get_a_life.wav\" title=\"Shatner sound file\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/icons\/sound.gif\" alt=\"sound file\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess I can&rsquo;t talk too much, though.  If there was ever a fantasy world that I could become obsessed with, it would be that of the <i>Lord Of The Rings<\/i> saga, or maybe the Simpsons&rsquo; Springfield, but that&rsquo;s another story altogether.  Thankfully, I&rsquo;m (usually) discerning enough to keep my wits about me and separate the real from the imaginary.  Which isn&rsquo;t to say that I haven&rsquo;t had some freaky dreams&hellip; \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willsthrills.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Will&rsquo;s Thrills<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-105820801654098704?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now for my Comic Book Guy Post Of The Day. &ldquo;On [the newsgroup] rec.arts.books.tolkien, there is periodic debate whether the eagles could have flown the Ring into Mordor, saving Frodo and Sam the hazardous journey on foot.&rdquo; While there are many thorough, compelling arguments for and against this statement, there is one salient point &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/15\/could-the-eagles-have-flown-frodo-into-mordor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Could The Eagles Have Flown Frodo Into Mordor?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}