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Welcome to our collection of TORn\u2019s hottest topics for the past week. If you\u2019ve fallen behind on what\u2019s happening on the Message Boards, here\u2019s a great way to catch the highlights. Or if you\u2019re 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\u2019s Message Boards. Everyone is welcome, so come on in and join in the fun!<\/p>\n
This week in the Reading Room we\u2019ve been discussing whether Sauron made an investment blunder when he invested in the Ring<\/a>.\u00a0 Should he (and Morgoth before him) just kept their power to themselves and not bound it so closely to just one thing?<\/p>\n More speculation about which characters will and won\u2019t take part in The Hobbit films, this week we\u2019ve been asking about Thranduil\u2019s Queen<\/a> and what part everyone thinks Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a> will have.<\/p>\n A couple of regular features in Off Topic are \u201cWhat are you reading?\u201d<\/a> and \u201cWhat did you watch this weekend?\u201d<\/a> , each week it\u2019s interesting to see just how broad a range of literary and viewing interests TORnadoes have and to add our own to the list, along with some very helpful tips on must see\/read and must avoid \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n We\u2019ll share more topics next week and hope you can join in on the conversation! Don\u2019t forget, TheOneRing.net\u2019s message boards have over 6400 registered Tolkien fans, just like yourself! Let your voice be heard.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to our collection of TORn\u2019s hottest topics for the past week. If you\u2019ve fallen behind on what\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"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":[28,114,499,4,35,495,6,98,148,149,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-books","category-miscellaneous","category-tolkbooks","category-silmarillion","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-torn-community"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bJx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45107","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\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}