{"id":21429,"date":"2000-02-01T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2000-02-01T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/02\/01\/more-qa-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at\/"},"modified":"2000-02-01T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2000-02-01T19:35:09","slug":"more-qa-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/02\/01\/21429-more-qa-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at\/","title":{"rendered":"More Q&#038;A Than You Can Shake a Stick At"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Greetings, Quickbeam here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The doldrums of winter are upon us, but I and my fellow Green Bookers <a href=\"mailto:turgon@theonering.net\">Turgon<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"mailto:anwyn@theonering.net\">Anwyn<\/a> are still hard at work, shedding light within the dark places. Today we unearth <b>fifteen new<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/greenbooks.theonering.net\/questions\/\">Questions &#038; Answers<\/a>, prompted by our ever-so-curious readership. These and many more are just a click away: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where did the evil spider Ungoliant come from?\n<li>Did Gandalf have a chance pitted against the Witch-king?\n<li>How does Frodo &#038; Bilbo&#8217;s birthday match up on our Gregorian Calendar?\n<li>Why did Tolkien mention &#8220;stars&#8221; so much, with such reverence?<\/ul>\n<p>And dear readers beware! Yours truly recently had his 31st birthday, just a few hours shy of Elijah Wood himself. I promised to mark the occasion by getting an extraordinary Tolkien tattoo (the design of which will remain secret but I provide a hint: think of fiery letters). I have NOT chickened out on that promise, but unfortunately it has been delayed a few weeks. Have faith, I will go under the tattoo artist&#8217;s needle and post the shocking photos soon enough. <\/p>\n<p>And keep your eyes peeled for more Green Books articles, interviews, <a href=\"http:\/\/fan.theonering.net\/writing\/\">Fan Fiction<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/greenbooks.theonering.net\/stumpthestaff\/index.html\">Stump the Staff<\/a>, et cetera!<\/p>\n<p>Much too hasty,<br \/>Quickbeam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, Quickbeam here&#8230; The doldrums of winter are upon us, but I and my fellow Green Bookers Turgon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5zD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}