{"id":230,"date":"2002-10-13T21:19:15","date_gmt":"2002-10-13T21:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=230"},"modified":"2002-10-13T21:19:15","modified_gmt":"2002-10-13T21:19:15","slug":"waiting-for-frodo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"On Waiting for Frodo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s encounter in Barnes & Noble brings to mind a website I recommend checking out: waitingforfrodo.com<\/a>. The site features an online comic strip entitled, as you might guess, Waiting for Frodo, written by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, about a young man named Sam who waited in line for 200-odd days for the release of the first Lord of the Rings<\/i> film. I’ve recently finished reading the complete run of strips–there’s about eighty strips, spread across the last year and a half–and Sam is currently in line awaiting The Two Towers<\/i>. And he’s just met someone who wants to wait for Return of the King<\/i>. It’s a fun little story, with Sam’s relationship problems counterpointing thematic elements of the Lord of the Rings<\/i> trilogy. And the strip pokes gentle fun at some of the other fandoms of our time, like Harry Potter and Star Wars<\/i>. Interestingly, Star Trek<\/i> fandom makes only a single appearance to the best of my recollection, but given the winter release of Nemesis<\/b> I imagine there’s some comic fodder to be had with Star Trek<\/i> fans.<\/p>\n

Waiting for Frodo’s story reminds me of the film, Starwoids<\/i><\/a>, Dennis Przywara’s documentary about hardcore Star Wars<\/i> fans who waited for six weeks in line outside two Hollywood theatres for the premiere of The Phantom Menace<\/i>. If there’s a difference, beyond the films the characters are awaiting, it’s that Waiting for Frodo’s characters are fiction, and Starwoids<\/i> are so strange that you want<\/i> them to be fictional. The people in the documentary, though, aren’t<\/i> fictional, and my reaction to their story is one of sadness that they’re so wrapped up in their world that they would want to give up weeks of their lives<\/i> to wait for a film that really wasn’t that good to begin with.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Waiting For Frodo<\/a>. Check it out. I think you might just like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s encounter in Barnes & Noble brings to mind a website I recommend checking out: waitingforfrodo.com. The site features an online comic strip entitled, as you might guess, Waiting for Frodo, written by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, about a young man named Sam who waited in line for 200-odd days for the release of the firstContinue reading “On Waiting for Frodo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[51,416,368,853],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien","tag-fandom","tag-frodo","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-sam","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}