{"id":13169,"date":"2013-05-01T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T05:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=13169"},"modified":"2013-06-01T07:14:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T12:14:03","slug":"random-thread-may-2013-one-issue-to-rule-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=13169","title":{"rendered":"Random Thread, May 2013 &#8212; One Issue to Rule Them All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Muse_NovDec_2003_350w.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of November-December 2003 \"Lord of the Rings\" issue of Muse\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Robert recalls:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This may be my favorite issue of <em>Muse<\/em>, starting with the cover, which I discovered in an out-of-print Tolkien calendar just as <em>Muse<\/em>&#8216;s editors were despairing of finding affordable Middle-earth art. Inside, Nancy Kangas introduced Ble, Larry Gonick extended his &#8220;Kokopelli &#038; Company&#8221; LotR parody through the whole issue, and there were articles on Middle-earth languages (including a handy Elvish phrasebook), special effects in the movies, and dragons &#8212; great fun all around.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gaeioumli.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ideas for future random threads are <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=12791\">still welcome<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Users&#8217; Manual:<\/strong> Obey <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=18\">The Rules<\/a>. Consult <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?page_id=89\">The Guide<\/a>. Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstuff","category-random-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13169"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13263,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169\/revisions\/13263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}