{"id":44918,"date":"2011-06-03T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=44918"},"modified":"2011-06-03T09:44:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T14:44:05","slug":"bbc-talks-with-stephen-fry-on-his-hobbit-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/06\/03\/44918-bbc-talks-with-stephen-fry-on-his-hobbit-role\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Talks with Stephen Fry on his &#8216;Hobbit&#8217; Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44919 no-lazyload\" title=\"BBC News - Stephen Fry on his Hobbit film role in New Zealand\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BBC-News-Stephen-Fry-on-his-Hobbit-film-role-in-New-Zealand-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BBC-News-Stephen-Fry-on-his-Hobbit-film-role-in-New-Zealand-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BBC-News-Stephen-Fry-on-his-Hobbit-film-role-in-New-Zealand.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>Thanks to Ringer Irfon for sending in this link to a BBC interview with actor <a href=\"\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/cast\/stephen-fry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Fry<\/a> who will be playing the <a title=\"Master of Lake-town\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/characters\/master-of-lake-town\/\">Master of Laketown<\/a> in &#8216;<em>The Hobbit<\/em>&#8216; films. 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