{"id":104835,"date":"2018-04-04T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=104835"},"modified":"2018-04-04T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T04:00:17","slug":"april-fools-posts-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2018\/04\/04\/104835-april-fools-posts-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fool’s posts unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m sure it comes as no surprise that on Sunday morning, April 1st you woke up to a bunch of internet websites doing their best to fool you into thinking their words were true, and TORn is no different. We did post two separate stories that were lacking in the veracity department. One post claimed we were moving to a paid subscription business model, which on it’s own is intriguing, but because some message board members were involved, there were links to supporting messages. In fact, the bulk of the story sounded quite reasonable, until you got to the highest subscription level, ‘Mithril’ and one perk is the ability rent a Nazgul, for no more than 2 hours a year, and the reminder to book early for the Halloween timeframe and that TORn is not responsible for terror or destruction. OK, that last bit had me cackling, anyone else? No? Just me then.<\/p>\n

The other story, believe it or not, actually fooled our own, beloved Webmaster Calisuri. He can be forgiven, it was clear a lot of people wanted the story about Guillermo Del Toro working on the Amazon Middle-earth stories to be true, which is what made this story so much more believable. There was nothing outlandish in the story, it was about a current subject that TORn had just covered the week before at Wondercon, and it fed into the deep fan desire to see the Middle-earth that could have been. And while we want to come clean with you, the readers of our little website, we especially want to reach out to Guillermo Del Toro to assure him there was no malice intended with this April Fools joke. We knew fans would fall for it, or want to fall for it, because GDT is so beloved as a storyteller and creator of amazingly detailed creative worlds, and in the end, the reach of this story just says how much GDT is appreciated in this fandom.\u00a0This guy wasn’t fooled<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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