{"id":58,"date":"2007-01-13T22:04:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T04:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.galador.org\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-01-13T22:04:53","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T04:04:53","slug":"im-in-ur-deep-eatin-ur-elvz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/im-in-ur-deep-eatin-ur-elvz\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m In Ur Deep, Eatin&#8217; Ur Elvz!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think someone went a little overboard on this one.  Someone decided to create a scale replica of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Helm%27s_Deep\">Battle of the Hornburg<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolkiensociety.org\/tolkien\/biography.html\" >J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s<\/a> wonderful adaptation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Book_of_Westmarch\">Red Book of Westmarch<\/a>&#8230; in candy.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you heard right.  They did this all in 100% sugary goods.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.galador.org\/pics\/hornburg-full.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThis is the zoomed out view. The whole thing was constructed out of cardboard, glue, icing and\u2026 well, candy. It clocked in at about 7 feet long by 3 feet deep by 2 feet tall. We used over 500 Gummy Bears as orcs and Uruk-Hai. The Elves, Dwarves and Men were represented by sour patch kids. Most of these were of course corpses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.galador.org\/pics\/hornburg-stairs.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nBrutal Slaughter on the stairs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.galador.org\/pics\/hornburg-gandalf.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nGandalf and company to the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, that&#8217;s what I call an excellent display of super nerd-dom.   I give them super-props for deciding to spend their time to create such an awesome creating (even if there is literally no purpose besides just being awesome).  It&#8217;s just super-cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/missedmanners.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/12\/what-i-did-over-christmas-vacation\/\">Original Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the way, I stole my title from <a href=\"http:\/\/missedmanners.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/12\/what-i-did-over-christmas-vacation\/#comment-1537\">one of the comments on the original blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think someone went a little overboard on this one. Someone decided to create a scale replica of the Battle of the Hornburg from J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s wonderful adaptation of the Red Book of Westmarch&#8230; in candy. Yes, you heard right. They did this all in 100% sugary goods. This is the zoomed out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/im-in-ur-deep-eatin-ur-elvz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m In Ur Deep, Eatin&#8217; Ur Elvz!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}