{"id":102894,"date":"2017-04-01T07:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T12:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=102894"},"modified":"2017-04-01T07:53:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T12:53:26","slug":"middle-earth-march-madness-reaches-the-final-four-elite-eight-results-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2017\/04\/01\/102894-middle-earth-march-madness-reaches-the-final-four-elite-eight-results-are-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-earth March Madness reaches the Final Four! Elite Eight results are in."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102549\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BerenLuthien.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102549 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BerenLuthien-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BerenLuthien-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BerenLuthien.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are Beren and Luthien still speaking after their Quarter Final battle?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2017\/03\/20\/102804-middle-earth-march-madness-round-1-bracket-vote-now-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Middle-earth March Madness 2017<\/a>\u00a0is at the Semi Finals stage! Sixty-four characters started &#8211; now only four remain. \u00a0Who has made it to the Final Four?<\/p>\n<p>After a fairly close fight, Brego is the victor of the <strong>Movies Only <\/strong>group! Elf warrior Tauriel just couldn&#8217;t overcome the battle-hardened steed; could we be heading towards that Aragorn vs Brego final? It&#8217;s certainly still on the cards, as Aragorn comfortably defeated Elrond to emerge as champion of the <strong>Movie and Books<\/strong> category.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Books Only<\/strong>\u00a0was neck and neck right up to the last moment, with yellow boots taking on pointy ears; Tom Bombadil finally won over Glorfindel, with a margin of just over 1%! So it is Tom who goes on to face Brego in the Semi Final. Aragorn&#8217;s opponent in this penultimate round will be courageous elf maiden Luthien, who was pitted against her own true love Beren in the Elite Eight. The mortal man proved to be no match for her, with Luthien taking over 70% of the vote in the <strong>Wider Mythos<\/strong> pairing. After all the trials they endured in Angband, let&#8217;s hope their love survived this latest challenge!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the full results from the Elite Eight:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd5.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd5-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-102907 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd5-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd5-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-middleearthmadness-bracket-rd5-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voting for the Final Four matches is now open! You have until April 3rd 10pm EST to have your say.\u00a0Will we see that Brego\/Aragorn final? You decide &#8211; VOTE NOW!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><strong>Semi-Finals &#8211; FInal Four Only &#8211; Elite Eight<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>April 1 &#8211; April 3 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><a id=\"pd_a_9713281\"><\/a><div class=\"CSS_Poll PDS_Poll\" id=\"PDI_container9713281\" style=\"\"><\/div><div id=\"PD_superContainer\"><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/polldaddy.com\/p\/9713281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take Our Poll<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><a id=\"pd_a_9713282\"><\/a><div class=\"CSS_Poll PDS_Poll\" id=\"PDI_container9713282\" style=\"\"><\/div><div id=\"PD_superContainer\"><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/polldaddy.com\/p\/9713282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take Our Poll<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle-earth March Madness 2017\u00a0is at the Semi Finals stage! Sixty-four characters started &#8211; now only four remain. \u00a0Who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":102816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[499,14,197,36,7,4,35,5,29,31,30,6,38,98,148,1636,2497,1911,149,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-events","category-fans","category-fotr-book","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-books","category-lotr-movies","category-fotr-movie","category-rotk-movie","category-ttt-movie","category-tolkbooks","category-rotk-book","category-silmarillion","category-hobbit","category-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey","category-the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies","category-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","category-lotr","category-ttt-book"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/middleearthmarchmadness2017.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-qLA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102894","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102908,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102894\/revisions\/102908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}