{"id":100820,"date":"2016-06-24T00:21:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T05:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=100820"},"modified":"2016-06-24T00:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T05:21:26","slug":"can-fantasy-films-escape-lord-of-the-ring-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2016\/06\/24\/100820-can-fantasy-films-escape-lord-of-the-ring-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Can fantasy films escape Lord of the Ring&#8217; shadow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/aragorn-on-horseback.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-59544 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/aragorn-on-horseback-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"aragorn on horseback\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/aragorn-on-horseback-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/aragorn-on-horseback.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>We spotted an interesting read over at Denofgeek.com. posing the question as to whether any fantasy film will ever be able to outshine Peter Jackson&#8217;s Lord of the Rings trilogy.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Legend<\/em>, <em>Krull<\/em>, <em>The Neverending Story<\/em>, <em>Dune<\/em>, all have their fans but none captured the zeitgeist anywhere close to how <em>Lord Of The Rings<\/em> did from late 2001, along with <em>Harry Potter<\/em>. We finally had fantasy films faithful to the genre\u2019s most rock-solid source material, made by a relatively independent director in a country mostly neglected for big-budget filmmaking, and brave enough to commit to a fantasy world with both digitally-aided grandeur and a practical, lived-in feel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it depends on what one&#8217;s definition of &#8216;outshine&#8217; is: Box office success? The ability to support sequels? Motivating people to seek out more of the particular fantasy world? Read the article, then let us know. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/uk\/movies\/fantasy-movies\/41676\/can-fantasy-films-escape-lord-of-the-rings-shadow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spotted an interesting read over at Denofgeek.com. posing the question as to whether any fantasy film will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":59544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,29,31,30,1287,20,74,149,392],"tags":[3009,2088,883,165,2014],"class_list":["post-100820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lotr-movies","category-fotr-movie","category-rotk-movie","category-ttt-movie","category-new-line-cinema-production-studios","category-new_zealand","category-jackson","category-lotr","category-warner-bros","tag-den-of-geek","tag-middle-earth","tag-new-zealand","tag-peter-jackson","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/aragorn-on-horseback.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-qe8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100821,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100820\/revisions\/100821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}