{"id":30252,"date":"2008-10-14T23:05:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T04:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=30252"},"modified":"2008-10-14T23:07:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T04:07:57","slug":"del-toro-what-bilbo-baggins-means-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/10\/14\/30252-del-toro-what-bilbo-baggins-means-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Del Toro: &#8220;What Bilbo Baggins Means To Me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-29370 no-lazyload\" title=\"Del Toro and Hobbit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/del-toro-and-hobbit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"102\" \/>As fans know, Bilbo Baggins is the clue finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. He was chosen for the  lucky number. He comes from the end of a bag, but no bag goes over him. He is  the Barrel-rider. Plus, we know that soon he\u2019ll be the centerpiece of one of the biggest  big-screen fantasy epics of all-time.<\/p>\n<p>But what does he mean to Guillermo Del Toro?\u00a0 <a title=\"GDT Bilbo\" href=\"http:\/\/moviesblog.mtv.com\/2008\/10\/14\/hobbit-director-guillermo-del-toro-sounds-off-on-what-bilbo-baggins-means-to-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTV&#8217;s Movie Blog<\/a> provided him an opportunity to discuss exactly that topic:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe most salient virtue of Bilbo is a very relatable, basic decency and honesty  &#8211; the fact that here\u2019s a guy who\u2019s going to do the right thing,\u201d Del Toro said  of the titular character in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. \u201cBilbo is a  good-hearted man, and the honesty of Bilbo is in direct contrast to the greed of  Smaug, which looms large in the entire narrative, but also in the newly acquired  greed and pride of Thorin, who becomes intoxicated with power and gold.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more to read and includes a video on <a title=\"GDT Bilbo\" href=\"http:\/\/moviesblog.mtv.com\/2008\/10\/14\/hobbit-director-guillermo-del-toro-sounds-off-on-what-bilbo-baggins-means-to-him\/\" target=\"_blank\">MTV.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As fans know, Bilbo Baggins is the clue finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. He was chosen for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"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":[499,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7RW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30252","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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}