{"id":24474,"date":"2004-12-14T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T19:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/12\/14\/lord-of-the-rhymes-news-2\/"},"modified":"2004-12-14T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T19:10:40","slug":"lord-of-the-rhymes-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/12\/14\/24474-lord-of-the-rhymes-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the Rhymes News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">****HOBBIT SUPERSTARS RELEASE &#8216;LORDS OF THE RHYMES: THE UNTOLDE TALE&#8217;****<\/p>\n<p>CHART-BUSTING FILM CAUSES GLOBAL UPROAR; DVD AVAILABLE NOW AT WWW.LORDSOFTHERHYMES.COM<\/p>\n<p>Hobbit rap superstars Quickbeam and Bombadil, known in lands near and far as the Lords of the Rhymes, officially released &#8216;Lords of the Rhymes: The Untolde Tale&#8217; today, instantly topping the Billboard charts, shredding all previously held sales records, and putting several small South Asian economies on the brink of collapse. The 40-minute feature &#151; hailed by one critic as &#8216;the best piece of pure filmmaking ever executed&#8217; and by another as &#8216;a surreal yet cardboard-infused journey into the proto-pubescent fantasy realm of two hairy-footed beatboxing wannabe hacks,&#8217;  &#151; details the rise to stardom, the music, the hype, the fans, and the secret lives of MCs Quickbeam and Bombadil &#151; aka the Lords of the Rhymes.<\/p>\n<p>The film, directed by hip-hop aficionado Morgan Barnard (aka Curufin the Crafty), features interviews with the Lords and their managers, live performance footage, never-before-heard songs, scenes from the Lords&#8217; &#8220;Lucky Charms&#8221; and &#8220;Irish Spring&#8221; commercials, archival footage of the Lords&#8217; early days busking in the New York City subway, commentary on the history of hobbit rap by Tolkien Scholar Tayshaun Greensleeve, pedicures, music videos, elf-girls and much more&#8230; It is being released on a limited-edition, specially shrink-wrapped DVD which also contains a bevy of special features, including a 14-minute featurette on the making of the Lords of the Rhymes wildly popular music video.<\/p>\n<p>The raucous and profanity-laced film recently caused an uproar at the Greater Hobbiton Film Festival, when the Sackville-Baggins Council on Good Hobbit Morals declared it unfit for public viewing. Despite this, bootleg copies made it out into the market, resulting in a near riot in South Bywater and several unwanted Elven pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the Lords would be making any further forays onto the silver screen, rapper Quickbeam remarked: &#8216;This is only the beginning. We&#8217;re currently in the process of shooting a series of  prequels. And then we&#8217;re going to singlehandedly re-enact the entire Silmarillion with all cardboard props. And if that fails, we can always be like our man Snoop Dogg and get into porn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;S&#8217;right&#8221; added Bombadil. &#8220;We&#8217;ve certainly got the feet for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Untolde Tale&#8217; is the Lords&#8217; first feature film. In addition to its sold out engagements across Middle-earth, the film has also been screened at the First Annual Gathering of the Roleplayer&#8217;s Society of Greater Helsinki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>****HOBBIT SUPERSTARS RELEASE &#8216;LORDS OF THE RHYMES: THE UNTOLDE TALE&#8217;**** CHART-BUSTING FILM CAUSES GLOBAL UPROAR; DVD AVAILABLE NOW&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6mK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24474","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}