{"id":11203,"date":"2003-01-03T19:04:44","date_gmt":"2003-01-04T01:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/01\/03\/the-actors-who-could-have-been-in-lotr\/"},"modified":"2003-01-03T19:04:44","modified_gmt":"2003-01-04T01:04:44","slug":"the-actors-who-could-have-been-in-lotr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/01\/03\/11203-the-actors-who-could-have-been-in-lotr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Actors Who Could Have Been In LOTR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Once Peter Jackson&#8217;s <i>The Lord of the Rings<\/i> project was announced in 1999, any fan with a keyboard and the energy could chip in their two cents on who they thought should be cast in the movies. Soon the Internet became host to a frenzy of casting rumours, as every day a new actor was linked to one of the most exciting film projects in production. Three years on, it&#8217;s clear <i>now<\/i> what stories were lies and what were truth, but as we enter the home stretch and less than 12 months until the release of <i>The Return of the King<\/i>, it seems appropriate to reflect on what could have been&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/perl\/newsview\/8\/1041641490\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once Peter Jackson&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings project was announced in 1999, any fan with a keyboard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-2UH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}