I didn’t think it was still possible, but Twitter just posted my favorite crossover of the year: Lord of the rings Money ball. You see, you understand the plot The Lord of the rings trilogy and then talk to about it Money ball Quotes. It’s simple, stupid, and so satisfying I can’t believe no one has thought of it before.
For many of us, the end-of-year holidays are a time when we take some time off, spend time with our loved ones, and inexplicably try to keep it all in perspective Lord of the rings Extended version for the sixth time. Peter Jackson’s fantasy adaptation’s epic 11-hour, 36-minute running time provides plenty of time to relax and reflect, leaving us pondering everything from the million cumulative life decisions that have brought us to this point to playing in each one respect We might have attempted to defeat Lord Sauron if we had been major players in the twilight of the Third Age of Middle-earth.
This all means that the pump may have been primed for a historic event LotR Mashup when Defector Co-founder and former Deadspin Editor Tom Ley tweeted on Christmas Day: “Saruman sees that Elrond has spent 4 spots on the Fellowship list for hobbits,” alongside a screenshot of a series of TikTok comments like “WHO LET THIS MAN COOK” and “WHAT IS HE TALKING?” user HeylKatme Quote tweeted Ley’s post, featuring the poster for Moneyball and the words “Elrond compiling the Fellowship list” and a wholesome new meme, aka the 2023 equivalent of a dad joke, was born.
I didn’t think beautiful things were still possible on Twitter, also known as the Elon Musk graveyard for posters. 2023 was the year that the social media platform, once a smart, creative hive of internet-saturated people engaging in the minds of random strangers like a giant coke fever dream, clearly died. The party is over. The advertisers have all left. The only ones left are those who are too sick or tired to go home. And yet somehow, even in the smoldering ruins of a once special, if never quite great, online society, Lord of the Rings Moneyball was born:
It helps if you’ve seen both Lord of the Rings And Money ball, the Aaron Sorkin-filled sports biopic based on the 2003 book by Michael Lewis, is about a losing baseball team that uses sabermetrics to beat its better-funded rivals. But it’s enough just to be familiar with them, and with the way your average fantasy league player often talks about his draft these days, as if they, too, were using arcane statistical methods to make an unlikely but nonetheless urgent campaign to launch against the armies of embodied darkness.
And if you’d like to become more familiar with the source material behind Twitter’s latest touch of quirky humor, Lord of the Rings is streaming on HBO Max and Money ball is available for viewing free with advertising on YouTube.
