{"id":22892,"date":"2001-07-10T09:20:44","date_gmt":"2001-07-10T14:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/07\/10\/spikes-at-orthanc-2\/"},"modified":"2001-07-10T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2001-07-10T14:20:44","slug":"spikes-at-orthanc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/07\/10\/22892-spikes-at-orthanc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spikes at Orthanc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">From: <b>Firebrand<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I was at the Licensing Show in New York (in June) only one thing was interesting : the New Line booth, with the Lord of the Rings ! I had the chance to peak at series 1 and 2 figurines, as well as some new figurines I hadn&#8217;t seen on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>There were also two large &#8220;full scale&#8221; costums, probably used in the movie : one was an orc warrior, the other one, a magnificient Black Rider. I noticed there were some sharp, short spikes on his gloves.<\/p>\n<p>Among the figurines, there was a landscape diorama of Orthanc (quite alike to Alan Lee and Tolkien&#8217;s drawings), and guess what I spotted below the Tower&#8230;a tiny spiky wheel, the one that Saruman was impaled upon. It&#8217;s now clear that Saruman is being pushed of the tower by Grima in the third movie (the &#8220;plot twist&#8221; aluded to by Ian McKellen).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Firebrand I was at the Licensing Show in New York (in June) only one thing was interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-spy-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5Xe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22892","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}