{"id":46126,"date":"2011-07-15T04:44:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T09:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=46126"},"modified":"2011-07-15T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:41:51","slug":"first-look-at-balin-and-dwalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/07\/15\/46126-first-look-at-balin-and-dwalin\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME Exclusive: First Look At Balin And Dwalin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/07\/15\/46126-first-look-at-balin-and-dwalin\/balin-and-dwalin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46127\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-46127 no-lazyload\" title=\"Balin and Dwalin\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Balin-and-Dwalin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Balin-and-Dwalin.jpg 455w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Balin-and-Dwalin-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s much-anticipated &#8220;first look&#8221; at two more Dwarves from The Hobbit come to us courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2011\/07\/15\/time-exclusive-first-look-at-balin-and-dwalin-from-the-hobbit-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\">TIME<\/a>.\u00a0And it is indeed high time we met <strong>Ken Stott<\/strong> as <strong>Balin<\/strong> and <strong>Graham McTavish<\/strong> as <strong>Dwalin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here follows the accompanying description of these Dwarves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dwarf Lords in their own right, Balin and Dwalin are close relatives of Thorin. Beyond this, these brothers are two of his most loyal and trusted friends. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>An old warrior, Balin has lived through hard times and fought many battles, yet he harbors doubts about the wisdom of the Quest to retake the Lonely Mountain. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dwalin has no such forebodings \u2013 his belief in Thorin\u2019s leadership is unshakeable. A powerful and bruising fighter, with a natural tendency to distrust anyone who is not a Dwarf, particularly anyone who might be an Elf, Dwalin is not someone to cross lightly.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think of these Dwarves? Discuss on our <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=374325#374325\" target=\"_blank\">message boards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s much-anticipated &#8220;first look&#8221; at two more Dwarves from The Hobbit come to us courtesy of TIME.\u00a0And it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":46127,"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":[499,1295,22,1300,4,1383,496,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-graham-mctavish","category-headlines","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-ken-stott","category-production","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Balin-and-Dwalin.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bZY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46126","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=46126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}