{"id":18725,"date":"2001-06-21T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2001-06-21T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/06\/21\/mediawatch-impossible-to-make-a-tolkien-movie\/"},"modified":"2001-06-21T07:27:11","modified_gmt":"2001-06-21T12:27:11","slug":"mediawatch-impossible-to-make-a-tolkien-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/06\/21\/18725-mediawatch-impossible-to-make-a-tolkien-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaWatch: Impossible to make a Tolkien movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Thanks to Ringer Andy for sending us this link to an article from <i>Ananova.com<\/i> (originally from canoe.ca):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>The director of the animated version of Lord Of The Rings says he thinks it&#8217;s impossible to transfer Tolkien&#8217;s words to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Bakashi directed an animated version of JRR Tolkien&#8217;s books in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>He was criticised at the time for cutting out certain characters and not taking the film to the end of Tolkien&#8217;s third book The Return Of The King.<\/i>&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoe.ca\/JamLordOfTheRings\/jun21_bakshi-can.html\" target=\"new\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Ringer Andy for sending us this link to an article from Ananova.com (originally from canoe.ca): &#8220;The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-18725","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-4S1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18725","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}