{"id":68,"date":"2007-09-30T10:27:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T15:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/09\/30\/tolkiens-virtual-world-takes-off\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T21:58:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T02:58:34","slug":"tolkiens-virtual-world-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2007\/09\/30\/68-tolkiens-virtual-world-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien&#8217;s Virtual World Takes Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/witchking_header_lotro_140.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Fish Cafe to Close?\" style=\"margin-left: 10px\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"57\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"140\" class=\"no-lazyload\" \/> Jeff Anderson is not a nerd. The 40-year-old chief executive of Westwood (Mass.) video game developer Turbine is six feet tall, with the frame of an NFL linebacker. 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