{"id":45296,"date":"2011-06-19T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T21:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=45296"},"modified":"2011-06-19T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T21:24:55","slug":"pj-confirms-evans-and-cumberbatch-announces-losts-evangeline-lilly-and-barry-humphries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/06\/19\/45296-pj-confirms-evans-and-cumberbatch-announces-losts-evangeline-lilly-and-barry-humphries\/","title":{"rendered":"PJ Confirms Evans and Cumberbatch, Announces LOST&#8217;s Evangeline Lilly and Barry Humphries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-45297 no-lazyload\" title=\"Evangeline Lilly\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Evangeline-Lilly-4-HHISK9GKPQ-1400x1050-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Evangeline-Lilly-4-HHISK9GKPQ-1400x1050-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Evangeline-Lilly-4-HHISK9GKPQ-1400x1050-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Evangeline-Lilly-4-HHISK9GKPQ-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Peter Jackson has posted a new note on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/peter-jackson\/the-hobbit-casting-update\/10150286515141558\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> today that confirms the casting of Luke Evans as Bard, as well as Benedict Cumberbatch as the voice of Smaug. He has also announced two new cast members.\u00a0Barry Humphries will be portraying a completely CGI Goblin King&#8230;and&#8230;wait for it&#8230;the biggest news is LOST star\u00a0Evangeline Lilly will be Tauriel. PJ describes Tauriel as a Woodland Elf, &#8216;<em>Her name means &#8216;daughter of Mirkwood&#8217; and, beyond that, we must leave you guessing! (No, there is no romantic connection to Legolas.)<\/em>&#8216;\u00a0So there you have it, some huge news from PJ today. Jump on over to his Facebook account to read the full note. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/peter-jackson\/the-hobbit-casting-update\/10150286515141558\" target=\"_blank\">Read on<\/a>] What do you think? Share your thoughts in our forum and on facebook!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Jackson has posted a new note on his Facebook page today that confirms the casting of Luke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":45297,"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":[114,497,22,1300,4,74,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-production-directors","category-headlines","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Evangeline-Lilly-4-HHISK9GKPQ-1400x1050.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bMA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45296","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\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}