{"id":54185,"date":"2012-03-11T07:41:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=54185"},"modified":"2012-03-11T07:41:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T12:41:18","slug":"selection-sunday-middle-earth-madness-soon-to-be-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/11\/54185-selection-sunday-middle-earth-madness-soon-to-be-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Selection Sunday – Middle-earth Madness soon to be revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Middle-earth Madness<\/em> and all the fun that implies, is soon to be released to fans of J.R.R. Tolkien everywhere. Readers and moviegoers will be able to vote as we pit character vs. character in a showdown to determine the 2012 Middle-earth character champion.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of the U.S.’ NCAA college basketball tournament, known as March Madness<\/em>, we will create matchups that pit the likes of Gollum vs. Treebeard and Boromir vs. Balin. Unlike the NCAA bracket, ours will be a 32 team showdown. Using voting<\/a> fan input and finally our own selection committee.<\/p>\n

And, because there are hundreds of great characters across the Middle-earth catalog, we know not everybody’s favorite character can fit in a field of 32 and just like in the NCAA tournament, some deserving characters may not get in. (Unlike the basketball tournament however, all of the characters are fictional and none will have his or her feelings hurt and they all have “next year” to be a contender.) So, we hope you will join us for our voting and enjoy Middle-earth Madness! The Bracket will be revealed soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Middle-earth Madness and all the fun that implies, is soon to be released to fans of J.R.R. Tolkien…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":54186,"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":[14,197,22,4,35,5,91,148,149,156,159,152],"tags":[1649],"class_list":["post-54185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-fans","category-headlines","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-books","category-lotr-movies","category-events-other","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-torn-announcements","category-torn-community","category-tolkien","tag-middle-earth-madness"],"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