{"id":54670,"date":"2012-04-01T09:44:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T14:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=54670"},"modified":"2012-04-02T07:11:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T12:11:20","slug":"the-latest-on-the-hobbit-pub-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/01\/54670-the-latest-on-the-hobbit-pub-southampton\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest on The Hobbit pub, Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This story was one of TheOneRing.net’s April Fool Jokes for 2012. Thank you for participating!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Word has reached us on the latest happenings with regard to The Hobbit pub in England.\u00a0 Officials from the Saul Zaentz Company visited the pub a week ago, to ‘assess the situation’; presumably to check exactly what references to The Hobbit<\/em>\u00a0– apart from the pub name – there are at the venue, which the SZC claims is breaking licensing laws.\u00a0 Now, in a totally unexpected turn of events, we hear that the SZC have put in an offer to buy the pub and take over management.\u00a0 ‘We just fell in love with the place,’ a representative told us. ‘As we own the rights to the name, it seems right that we should own the pub itself.\u00a0 It would certainly be a solution to the current copyright infringement.\u00a0 Our intention is to use it in our advertising campaign for the movies.\u00a0 We plan to ship the pub and all interior fittings to LA\u00a0 …\u00a0We hope to have it up and running there in time for the opening of the first Hobbit<\/em> movie at the end of the year.’<\/p>\n

Shipping a building, brick by brick, is certainly costly but not unheard of.\u00a0 The most famous such occurrence was of course the shipping of London Bridge, in 1962, via boat to California and thence to Arizona.\u00a0 There’s no word as yet to the exact location intended for the relocated Hobbit pub; TORn is keeping an eye on events in the hope that it might be a possible location for Oscar happenings next Spring!\u00a0 Meanwhile, we have yet to see how the current owner – and supportive regulars – will respond to this purchase offer.\u00a0 It seems unlikely that they would let their beloved local go without a fight.\u00a0 As ever, we’ll bring you the latest as we hear it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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