{"id":44671,"date":"2011-05-25T10:44:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T15:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=44671"},"modified":"2011-05-25T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T17:52:42","slug":"benedict-cumberbatch-as-bard-the-bowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/05\/25\/44671-benedict-cumberbatch-as-bard-the-bowman\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Cumberbatch as Bard the Bowman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-44676\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/05\/25\/44671-benedict-cumberbatch-as-bard-the-bowman\/bard-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-44676 no-lazyload\" title=\"bard?\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>Just down the board from this post is a report originating from a New Zealand television station about Benedict Cumberbatch joining &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; cast.  The non-by-lined article (from the TV station, not the one here) suggests from &#8220;early reports&#8221; that Cuberbatch might be in line to voice the dragon Smaug.  We don&#8217;t know if &#8220;early reports&#8221; means the writer asked somebody at a desk nearby who was left to be cast, but this seems, at best, suspicious.  That isn&#8217;t to say that the reporter doesn&#8217;t have some good information, but if they do they sure don&#8217;t sound confident about it. It wasn&#8217;t even written with the journalism phrase &#8220;unnamed sources&#8221; or &#8220;a source close to the production&#8221; but rather went with something that seems to actually mean, &#8220;I might be making this up and using the name Smaug will get a lot of attention.&#8221;  The author, besides not having a name, cites no source and doesn&#8217;t link to any of the &#8220;early reports&#8221; referenced.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-44673\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/05\/25\/44671-benedict-cumberbatch-as-bard-the-bowman\/bard-300x225\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-44673 no-lazyload\" title=\"Bard the Bowman\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA far more likely choice and a character that Cumberbatch looks something like: Bard the Bowman. He possesses a bit of menace and is taller and robust, much that a way the leader of men might be.  He might be believable as an excellent archer as well. The actor has had a good year, playing with Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins) in the BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Sherlock,&#8221; and also landing a spot in Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8220;War Horse,&#8221; a World War I drama. So, he might make an excellent Bard but, this is also speculation so until we hear from director Peter Jackson on Facebook or hear from WB in an official press release, don&#8217;t believe everything you read on the internet.  Meanwhile, be sure to check out our page of &#8220;Hobbit&#8221; characters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/characters\/\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just down the board from this post is a report originating from a New Zealand television station about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[114,499,4,1260,148],"tags":[290,2892,1508,1313,212,1507],"class_list":["post-44671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-movie","category-martin-freeman","category-hobbit","tag-bbc","tag-benedict-cumberbatch","tag-sherlock","tag-smaug","tag-steven-spielberg","tag-war-horse"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bCv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44671","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=44671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}