{"id":100741,"date":"2016-05-18T19:56:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=100741"},"modified":"2016-05-20T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T19:39:26","slug":"lotr-casting-rumors-put-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2016\/05\/18\/100741-lotr-casting-rumors-put-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTR casting rumors put to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If, like many of us, you heard about the making of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies before they even started production (and were old enough to read at the time, haha), you probably remember the good old days of endless debates and discussions around casting rumors! Was Sean Connery really considered to portray Gandalf? Was Sylvester McCoy considered for a role long before he brought Radagast to life in The Hobbit movies? This interesting article over at moviepilot.com<\/a> puts a number of those rumors to rest.<\/p>\n

Do you think Patrick Stewart would have made a good Gandalf? What about Jake Gyllenhaal as Frodo? If there are any rumors left over from the olden days that aren’t covered in this article, let us know in the comments section and we’ll see what we can find out. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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