{"id":60027,"date":"2012-07-28T01:48:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T06:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=60027"},"modified":"2012-07-28T01:52:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T06:52:17","slug":"shakespeare-inspires-armitages-thorin-oakenshield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/28\/60027-shakespeare-inspires-armitages-thorin-oakenshield\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare inspires Armitage&#8217;s Thorin Oakenshield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/characters\/thorin\/thorin-richardarmitage-p\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46259\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-46259 no-lazyload\" title=\"thorin-richardarmitage-p\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/thorin-richardarmitage-p-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a> <em>Meredith Woerner<\/em> of <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/\">io9.com<\/a> posted a video interview with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Richard Armitage<\/span> talking at Comic-Con 2012 about his role as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thorin Oakenshield<\/span>. Asked if he had to update his character for modern audiences he said:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I never really thought of updating it. I actually did the opposite. I thought of it as more kind of Greek tragedy. I looked at Shakespeare, a lot of my preparation I was looking at Henry V and bits of Richard III, just to find roots in British literature that were deeper. But I think making it feel contemporary the big themes of the story \u2014 loyalty and trust and camaraderie \u2014 I think those things are contemporary.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5929748\/the-hobbits-thorin-oakenshield-tells-us-what-happens-when-you-get-a-tolkien-dwarf-drunk\" target=\"_blank\">Complete interview<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Woerner of io9.com posted a video interview with Richard Armitage talking at Comic-Con 2012 about his role&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"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_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":[499,123,16,14,7,1300,4,1292,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-events-comiccon","category-events-conventions","category-events","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-richard-armitage","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fCb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60027","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60027"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60052,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60027\/revisions\/60052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}