Let me just start by saying this: Admittedly, I have very little work to do today, just follow along with me here.<\/p>\n
I was idly surfing along, clicktranced for a minute or twenty, and thought I would do some research and write a little follow-up piece to the Flight of the Conchords post I wrote<\/a>. Nik and I absolutely love these guys. We have been subjecting the Wilocks to it as well and they responded well enough. You should start watching their show, absolutely the best new TV I have bothered to watch in a while. Anyway there I was, just sort of cruising along, I found their pathetically out of date official web site<\/a>, and on there they have linked to a few unofficial<\/a> fan<\/a> sites<\/a>. It was by clicking through some of them that I found out the following incredibly useless information:<\/p>\n – Bret McKenzie (one of the Conchords) was in the Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring as an extra<\/a>. So, there you go. Don’t ask me why I bothered to tell you about it, but it did just help make some time pass before lunch. The only real piece of actual news I have in this whole post is the potentially sad news that the Flight of the Conchords may not be renewed for a second season<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s hoping they give Figwit another go.<\/p>\n The Internet is a strange place, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let me just start by saying this: Admittedly, I have very little work to do today, just follow along with me here. I was idly surfing along, clicktranced for a minute or twenty, and thought I would do some research … Continue reading
\n– He played an elf, seen for literally one second in the council of Elrond scene.
\n– His on screen presence was apparently so smouldering he inspired a huge<\/a> cult following<\/a> of smitten<\/a> women<\/a>.
\n– They named him Figwit (F<\/strong>rodo i<\/strong>s g<\/strong>reat…w<\/strong>ho i<\/strong>s t<\/strong>hat?)
\n– Figwit has a lot of hits if you search for it on Google<\/a>.
\n– It became such a phenomenon<\/a> that Peter Jackson (the director) decided<\/a> to give Figwit a couple of lines in the final movie of the trilogy.<\/p>\n