{"id":44221,"date":"2011-05-10T06:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T11:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=44221"},"modified":"2011-05-10T06:42:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T11:42:15","slug":"ian-mckellen-confirms-elrond-lindirfigwit-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/05\/10\/44221-ian-mckellen-confirms-elrond-lindirfigwit-casting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen Confirms Elrond, Lindir\/Figwit Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-38469\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/09\/11\/38468-ian-mckellen-the-aim-is-to-start-filming-in-january\/ian-mckellen-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38469 alignright no-lazyload\" title=\"ian mckellen\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ian-mckellen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been more than a month since <strong>Sir Ian McKellen<\/strong> posted an entry on his blog &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckellen.com\/cinema\/hobbit-movie\/blog.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Notes From Imladris<\/a>&#8221; dedicated to his adventures\u00a0filming <em>The Hobbit<\/em>. But the wait seems to have been worth it.<\/p>\n<p>His latest blog entry &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckellen.com\/cinema\/hobbit-movie\/110510.htm\" target=\"_blank\">THE HOBBIT, 2 Elves, and another Wizard<\/a>&#8221; is replete\u00a0with a picture of <strong>Hugo Weaving<\/strong>, who&#8217;ll be\u00a0returning as <strong>Lord\u00a0Elrond<\/strong>, a screencap from ROTK of\u00a0<strong>Bret McKenzie<\/strong> as the Elf <strong>Lindir<\/strong>, and a picture of \u00a0<strong>Sylvester McCoy<\/strong> who&#8217;s been cast in the role of <strong>Radagast the Brown. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Threads of interest follow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Martin Freeman has left\u00a0<em>The Hobbit<\/em>.\u00a0No worries: he&#8217;ll be back in Middle Earth after our first hiatus&#8230;\u00a0The rest of the cast remains on duty for another few weeks, working on hobbit-less sections of the film.\u00a0 These involve dwarves of course but also elves, with Hugo Weaving back for a stretch as Lord Elrond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Another slim-line elf returning from LOTR, is a local: New Zealand&#8217;s actor\/comedian\/singer Bret McKenzie.\u00a0Now he is briefly back in Rivendell as a senior official at Elrond&#8217;s Court and he has a name &#8220;Lindir&#8221;, which means &#8220;singer&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And there&#8217;s another wizard in town, preparing to make his appearance as Radagast the Brown, the eccentric friend of Gandalf&#8217;s, played by\u00a0Sylvester McCoy.\u00a0This week he has been trying out his make-up and costume.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The blog post makes for an amazing read, so be sure to click that link above and read the Grey Wizard&#8217;s notes in his own hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been more than a month since Sir Ian McKellen posted an entry on his blog &#8220;Notes From&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"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":[62,499,1300,4,47,49,10,5,1260,1228,148,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-figwit","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-weaving","category-mckellen","category-lotr-cast-news","category-lotr-movies","category-martin-freeman","category-sylvester-mccoy","category-hobbit","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bvf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44221","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}