{"id":54297,"date":"2012-03-15T01:23:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T06:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=54297"},"modified":"2012-03-15T01:24:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T06:24:05","slug":"a-balrog-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/15\/54297-a-balrog-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"A Balrog returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last Summer, as a lead up to the release of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Extended Edition on BluRay, TheOneRing.net was invited to participate in the official BluRay release party. TORn was responsible for facilitating the Costume Contest, with the grand prize being a Free Trip to New Zealand, hosted by WETA. As was reported then, numerous people competed in some truly wonderful costumes, but alas, only one could win, and that was The Balrog Showgirl herself, Nicole Roberts. As hosts, WETA has been documenting her visit with photos and a story, so check it out on their news page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Summer, as a lead up to the release of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Extended Edition…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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_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":[1152,85,1361,14,197,5,99,18,29,31,30,20,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blu-ray-merchandise","category-events-contests","category-dvdblu-ray","category-events","category-fans","category-lotr-movies","category-lotr-production","category-merchandise","category-fotr-movie","category-rotk-movie","category-ttt-movie","category-new_zealand","category-nz-tours"],"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