{"id":26944,"date":"2001-12-23T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2001-12-23T20:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/23\/message-at-end-of-fotr-credits-for-new-zealanders-2\/"},"modified":"2001-12-23T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2001-12-23T20:33:13","slug":"message-at-end-of-fotr-credits-for-new-zealanders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/23\/26944-message-at-end-of-fotr-credits-for-new-zealanders-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Message At End Of FOTR Credits For New Zealanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Wondering what the heck that message is that is at the end of the Fellowship of the Ring? Well <b>Ataahua<\/b> wrote in to reveal that it&#8217;s not an elvish or sindarin tongue, but in fact a real language: Maori.<\/p>\n<p><i>At the end of the credits of The Fellowship of the Ring, there&#8217;s a line in te reo Maori (the Maori language) that reads: &#8220;He mihi nui hoki ki nga tangata whenua o Aotearoa.  Ma rangi raua ko papa tatou e manaaki, e tiaki hei nga tau e tu mai nei.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought you might like to know the translation (this isn&#8217;t word-for-word; it&#8217;s the gist of what was written, translated by a friend who was brought up speaking Maori as his first language): &#8220;We would like<br \/>to acknowledge the people of New Zealand. May God from above care for you in the New Year.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering what the heck that message is that is at the end of the Fellowship of the Ring?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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-26944","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-70A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}