{"id":53427,"date":"2012-02-07T23:42:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=53427"},"modified":"2012-02-07T23:58:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:58:18","slug":"a-speculative-look-the-end-of-the-first-hobbit-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/02\/07\/53427-a-speculative-look-the-end-of-the-first-hobbit-film\/","title":{"rendered":"A speculative look: The end of the first ‘Hobbit’ film?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Where will The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em> end? One of our own takes a speculative look for Movies.com:
\nFace-to-face conversations about The Hobbit with fans across the U.S. and New Zealand, and online from around the world, often lead to the same place: Where will the films break? Despite being on the minds and spilling out of the mouths of real people in real conversations, little has been written about it.<\/p>\n

The production and the team adapting the book can\u2019t be blamed for playing things close to the vest; the book, written by J.R.R. Tolkien, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is so well known that they need to keep their secrets so film fans can be surprised by something when they head to the cinema this December for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.<\/em> With that in mind, there are speculative spoilers ahead and you have been warned.<\/p>\n

The media, while writing a lot about the films, haven\u2019t looked at the structure of these films too carefully. Today\u2019s digital media environment often gets more clicks from a new still photo than it does from more complex content that requires more patience and so topics at the very core of these two films often get glossed over and ignored.<\/p>\n

But not here in The Hobbit countdown! Here we skip past the catch phrase and empty headlines and peer a little deeper into news, rumors, lore and subterfuge to dredge up the best speculation and theory about just where the two films might break, a question that comes up in nearly any Hobbit conversation.<\/p>\n

Here are five of the most common and best-defended theories: Read the rest at Movies.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where will The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey end? One of our own takes a speculative look for Movies.com:…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53428,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[7,4,333,74,334,148],"tags":[221,2898],"class_list":["post-53427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-locations","category-jackson","category-hobbit-rumors","category-hobbit","tag-the-hobbit","tag-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t