{"id":57495,"date":"2012-06-17T21:34:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T02:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=57495"},"modified":"2012-10-15T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:58:29","slug":"torn-message-boards-weekly-roundup-june-17-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/06\/17\/57495-torn-message-boards-weekly-roundup-june-17-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"TORn Message Boards Weekly Roundup \u2013 June 17, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Welcome to our collection of TORn&#8217;s hottest topics for the past week.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/06\/17\/57495-torn-message-boards-weekly-roundup-june-17-2012\/6-months-to-go\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57496\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-57496 no-lazyload\" title=\"6 months to go!\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/6-months-to-go.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a>fallen behind on what&#8217;s happening on the Message Boards, here&#8217;s a great way to catch the highlights.\u00a0 Or if you&#8217;re new to TORn and want to enjoy some great conversations, just follow the links to some of our most popular discussions.\u00a0 Watch this space as every weekend we will spotlight the most popular buzz on TORn&#8217;s Message Boards. Everyone is welcome, so come on in and join in the fun!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>TORn poster DarkJackal raised a lot of comments about the age of the Dwarves in Jackson&#8217;s adaptation of Tolkien&#8217;s story of <strong><em>The Hobbit<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This is a new approach to an old question with some fascinating responses.\u00a0 See what the Good Professor&#8217;s ideas of the age of Dwarves <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=456894;sb=post_time;so=DESC;forum_view=forum_view_expanded;\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hobbit Movie Discussion Board was lit up when poster Captain Salt found chatter about the next Hobbit trailer due out soon!\u00a0\u00a0 Running for nearly as long as the first trailer released last December 20<sup>th<\/sup>, TORn posters are buzzing with the news!\u00a0 Come join in the conversation <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=456815;sb=post_time;so=DESC;forum_view=forum_view_expanded;\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We just couldn&#8217;t let the week go by without spotlighting the 6-month mark of the release of <strong><em>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em><\/strong> on December 14, 2012!\u00a0 Come share in the excitement <a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=456687;sb=post_time;so=DESC;forum_view=forum_view_expanded;\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll share more topics next week and hope you can join in on the conversation!\u00a0 Don&#8217;t forget, TheOneRing.net&#8217;s Message Boards have over 7,700 registered Tolkien fans, just like you.\u00a0 Let your voice be heard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our collection of TORn&#8217;s hottest topics for the past week.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve fallen behind on what&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":57496,"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_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":[198,14,197,162,4,148],"tags":[1483],"class_list":["post-57495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fans-creations","category-events","category-fans","category-events-screenings","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit","tag-torn-discussion-board-weekly-roundup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/6-months-to-go.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-eXl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57495","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57495"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57503,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57495\/revisions\/57503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}