{"id":23372,"date":"1999-10-18T22:43:15","date_gmt":"1999-10-19T03:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/10\/18\/this-is-odd\/"},"modified":"1999-10-18T22:43:15","modified_gmt":"1999-10-19T03:43:15","slug":"this-is-odd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/10\/18\/23372-this-is-odd\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Odd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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From: J<\/b> <\/p>\n

Interesting debate over the Hobbiton pic. However, I’m pretty sure we’ll find that the pic is compoletely authentic and un-retouched. Whatever abnormalities people seem to think they’re seeing would seem to be the result of a poor scan off a poorly reproduced newsprint photo, with the printing on the flip-side of the paper coming through the image somewhat and, of course, the always prevalent “conspiracy”-conscious element on the internet. Particularly ID4 seems to be barking up the wrong tree, in identifying the damp dirt at the entry gate as being an odd-looking shadow. Or why would anybody wonder why there’s a greensman in the photograph, dressing the set? I work in the Los Angeles visual effects industry and we’re shaking our heads at these efforts to “debunk” a probably perfectly genuine photo. Ah well…<\/p>\n

Anyway, do you want to have a little fun with the easily excitable Tolkien net community? Well, if so, here’s a pic of a gentleman named David Manning, a frequent stand-in for Sean Connery, in full wizard regalia, that turned up at the casting office that handles him. What to make of this? There’s also a couple of full-body pics, however there seems to be something wrong with the scans I was sent (perhaps he’s animated in CGI too?…). I leave it to you to decide what you want to make of this.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, I’ve been greatly enjoying the continuing coverage on your site.<\/p>\n

Best, J<\/i><\/p>\n

What to make of this? Why would a Sean Connery stand in pose for these pics? Who knows, spoiler space below for those who don’t want to see the ‘Notorious’ pic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From: J Interesting debate over the Hobbiton pic. However, I’m pretty sure we’ll find that the pic is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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-23372","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-64Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23372","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}