{"id":42508,"date":"2011-02-28T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=42508"},"modified":"2011-02-28T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T17:12:02","slug":"john-rhys-davies-talks-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/02\/28\/42508-john-rhys-davies-talks-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"John Rhys-Davies Talks The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/10\/30\/34062-john-rhys-davies-not-returning-as-gimli\/john-rys-davies\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34063\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/John-Rys-Davies.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"John Rys-Davies\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34063 no-lazyload\" \/><\/a><strong>Bernie<\/strong> writes: Yesterday I attended the Sydney Armageddon Expo for 2011, in which John Rhys-Davies attended. At 11.30, he conducted a panel where he mentioned &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he would love to return because he had such a brilliant time with &#8216;The Lord of the Rings&#8217;, but would be unable to, due to the toll that his prosthetic. Nothing new. To quote him, &#8220;I was asked to return as one of the 13 dwarves, and I thought, why would I want to be one of 13 when I could be one of one?&#8221; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Probably the most interesting thing to come from it was that he mentioned he rang Matt Dravitszki, Peter Jackson&#8217;s assistant, a week before Jackson went to hospital, asking if they wanted him down in New Zealand to be a &#8220;dwarf assistant&#8221;, talking to the new actors and helping them out here and there with his experiences. He said they never returned his call. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, he said that the 13 new dwarves have his &#8220;deepest sympathies&#8221; and that he is eagerly awaiting &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; just as much as anybody else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie writes: Yesterday I attended the Sydney Armageddon Expo for 2011, in which John Rhys-Davies attended. At 11.30,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[114,16,14,4,51],"tags":[1452],"class_list":["post-42508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-events-conventions","category-events","category-hobbit-movie","category-rhysdavies","tag-sydney-armageddon-expo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-b3C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42508","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=42508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}