{"id":22634,"date":"2002-08-17T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2002-08-17T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/08\/17\/preaching-to-the-rhythm-of-the-orcs\/"},"modified":"2002-08-17T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2002-08-17T14:44:50","slug":"preaching-to-the-rhythm-of-the-orcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/08\/17\/22634-preaching-to-the-rhythm-of-the-orcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Preaching to the Rhythm of the Orcs&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Or should that be &#8216;When the Orcs come marching in&#8230;.&#8221; A couple of people wrote in to say they&#8217;d seen the FOTR being used as the background to a televangelist show. Elvestine wrote: &#8220;Hey- after finishing watching FOTR last night, I walked past my TV which was  on &#8220;Praise the Lord&#8221; on TBN &#8220;The Trinity Broadcasting Network&#8221;, which is a Christian channel.  I thought I heard something familiar, and sure enough,  behind Steve Muncie&#8217;s preaching they were playing the LOTR:FOTR sountrack.  Strange, but they were.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stranger yet was the context. According to AquaDrake, &#8220;He was giving a message about overcoming fear with cheer, and about half-way through it I realized they were piping in music from the FOTR score. It was the Khazad Dum track&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Right. &#8220;Be of good cheer,&#8221; said Gandalf. &#8220;Do not be downhearted or sad or a little bit whiny and sullen, because I will fend off the Balrog, even though it be at the cost of my own life. So, toodle-pip, and remember, &#8216;Always look on the bright side of life.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or should that be &#8216;When the Orcs come marching in&#8230;.&#8221; A couple of people wrote in to say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-spy-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5T4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22634","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}