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Welcome to our collection of TORn’s hottest topics for the past week. If you’ve fallen behind on what’s happening on the Message Boards, here’s a great way to catch the highlights. Or if you’re new to TORn and want to enjoy some great conversations, just follow the links to some of our most popular discussions. Watch this space as every weekend we will spotlight the most popular buzz on TORn’s Message Boards. Everyone is welcome, so come on in and join in the fun!<\/p>\n
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“Who will play Bard?” <\/strong>In the Hobbit Movie Board, the deliberations still run fast and furious about potential players for uncast parts.\u00a0 This time, speculation falls more toward television personalities than big screen names.\u00a0 Check out the suggestions and comments. [Click Here<\/a>]<\/p>\n The Reading Room passionately examines every piece of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. <\/strong>True to its style, ardent debate is stirred\u00a0over The Lord of the Rings’ <\/em>chapter title, Flotsam and Jetsam<\/em>, and the interpretations, analysis, and inquiries into the meaning of Tolkien’s choice of words.\u00a0 Check out the action! [Click here<\/a>]<\/p>\n There was a flurry of activity when the announcement that pre-ordering is finally available for the long-anticipated The Lord of the Rings<\/em> on Blu-Ray<\/strong>!\u00a0 Some posters’ reactions are surprising. [Click here<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s always a good time at the end of the week when the Off-Topic Board hosts Fiesta Friday<\/strong>!\u00a0 At noon (EST) it’s a chance for everyone to meet up and share what they’ve been up to during the week.\u00a0 Their accomplishments, experiences, challenges or \u00a0those everyday events that we all can relate to.\u00a0 Join in the party each week! [Click here<\/a>]<\/p>\n We’ll share more topics next week and hope you can join in on the conversation! Don’t forget, TheOneRing.net’s message boards have almost 6000 registered Tolkien fans, just like yourself! Let your voice be heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to our collection of TORn’s hottest topics for the past week. If you’ve fallen behind on what’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":42663,"comment_status":"open","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":[1152,28,114,1361,4,35,18,148,149,159],"tags":[1457],"class_list":["post-42652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blu-ray-merchandise","category-calendar","category-hobbit-casting","category-dvdblu-ray","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-books","category-merchandise","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-torn-community","tag-torn-forums"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/h-2-1510-bard.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-b5W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42652","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}