{"id":35645,"date":"2010-03-18T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=35645"},"modified":"2010-03-18T13:33:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:33:54","slug":"fraud-of-the-rings-not-so-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/03\/18\/35645-fraud-of-the-rings-not-so-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud of the Rings? Not so fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The New Zealand Herald ran a story recently, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/03\/15\/35608-fraud-of-the-rings-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">we reported on<\/a>, about prop collection that cast doubt on Troika Brodsky and his extensive LOTR collection.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the paper originally spell Brodsky&#8217;s name wrong, it seems the information in the story is suspicious, including the reported $50,000 he paid for a well-documented Sting.<\/p>\n<p>Collector blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/new-zealand-herald-%E2%80%9Cfraud-of-the-rings%E2%80%9D-story-gets-it-wrong-about-original-lord-of-the-rings-movie-prop-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.originalprop.com<\/a> has published an extensive piece that gives Brodsky his say and also documents in detail the authenticity of the prop (among others) that is the focus of writer Joseph Barratt&#8217;s original story. They even reference a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/15\/25041-lotr-props-display-at-toys-r-us-in-times-square-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">TORn article<\/a> about Frodo&#8217;s sword. A complete read is pretty convincing and casts a lot of doubt about the original article and a possible attempt by Barratt to hook readers with a sensational headline.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalprop.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/new-zealand-herald-%E2%80%9Cfraud-of-the-rings%E2%80%9D-story-gets-it-wrong-about-original-lord-of-the-rings-movie-prop-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Herald ran a story recently, which we reported on, about prop collection that cast doubt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[84,17,5,99,101,149],"tags":[1143,1144,1142,1141],"class_list":["post-35645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise-collectibles","category-events-exhibits","category-lotr-movies","category-lotr-production","category-production-props","category-lotr","tag-lord-of-the-rings-collectibles","tag-new-zealand-herald","tag-sting","tag-troika-brodsky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9gV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35645","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}