{"id":1059,"date":"2003-12-19T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T15:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/12\/19\/1059\/"},"modified":"2003-12-19T10:07:32","modified_gmt":"2003-12-19T15:07:32","slug":"1059","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/12\/19\/1059\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a decent article on MSNBC \/ Newsweek–an interview with Miranda Rivers, who cast the Lord of the Rings<\/a>. My favorite part is where she describes her on-sight classification system:<\/p>\n

“We would walk down the street, and people were not people, they were types: I\u2019d be going, ‘Hobbit!’ ‘Elf!’ ‘Uruk-hai!’ ‘Rohan!’ I got a lot of elves off the street.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I find it interesting how similar that is to the typing system (man, hobbit, dwarf, elf) Randy Waterhouse defines in Cryptonomicon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a decent article on MSNBC \/ Newsweek–an interview with Miranda Rivers, who cast the Lord of the Rings. My favorite part is where she describes her on-sight classification system: “We would walk down the street, and people were not people, they were types: I\u2019d be going, ‘Hobbit!’ ‘Elf!’ ‘Uruk-hai!’ ‘Rohan!’ I got a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-connections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}