{"id":117760,"date":"2024-03-29T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T01:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=117760"},"modified":"2024-03-29T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T01:16:52","slug":"new-lotr-documentary-reflects-on-cultural-legacy-of-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2024\/03\/29\/117760-new-lotr-documentary-reflects-on-cultural-legacy-of-films\/","title":{"rendered":"New LOTR Documentary Reflects on Cultural Legacy of Films"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" class=\"intro\">VICE News has published a feature-length documentary on Peter Jackson&#8217;s <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> movies, including new interviews with cast and crew of the epic film series. Rare new interviews with LOTR Executive Producer Barrie Osborne, Peter &#8220;Swords&#8221; King, the Tolkien Professor Corey Olsen, Variety&#8217;s Tim Gray, and fan favorite actors like Jed Brophy, all tell the story of the history of <em>Rings <\/em>adaptations from Bakshi to Jackson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the full documentary here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player lazyload\" width=\"1170\" height=\"659\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fvymWfqmVuE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VICE has earned a reputation for unblemished deep dives in interesting cultural moments such as the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vicetv.com\/en_us\/show\/dark-side-of-the-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Dark Side of the Ring<\/a> about professional wrestling. The parent company VICE Media has been in the news lately <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2024\/02\/23\/vice-media-shutting-vice-com-laying-off-several-hundred-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">shutting down its operations<\/a>, and the quality of this documentary implies this was originally meant for the VICE channel on cable TV.  Possibly because of changes in the marketplace, fans can also access to the full doc for free on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fvymWfqmVuE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">YouTube<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shout out to staffer Thorongil for first spotting this doc, and our friend Varking for sharing the viewing link. Be the first to know what&#8217;s going on in Tolkien by joining our <a href=\"http:\/\/discord.gg\/theonering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Discord<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICE News has published a feature-length documentary on Peter Jackson&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings movies, including new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":117761,"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":[5,74,2773,148,149],"tags":[4191,1076,2154,4192,1434],"class_list":["post-117760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lotr-movies","category-jackson","category-ralph-bakshi","category-hobbit","category-lotr","tag-barrie-osborne","tag-new-line","tag-rankin-bass","tag-tim-gray","tag-tolkien-professor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-28-at-12.41.34\u202fPM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-uDm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117760","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\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117767,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117760\/revisions\/117767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}