{"id":64138,"date":"2012-10-30T12:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=64138"},"modified":"2012-10-30T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:13:44","slug":"insight-into-richard-armitages-thorin-and-fun-with-dwarves-on-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/10\/30\/64138-insight-into-richard-armitages-thorin-and-fun-with-dwarves-on-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Insight into Richard Armitage&#8217;s Thorin; and fun with dwarves on set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/thorin-richardarmitage520.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-46233 no-lazyload\" title=\"Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield from Peter Jackson's The Hobbit\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/thorin-richardarmitage520-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A couple of interesting articles came to our attention today &#8211; so we&#8217;re sharing them with you!\u00a0 Darkhorizons.com has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/features\/1629\/richard-armitage-talks-the-hobbit\" target=\"_blank\">this great interview <\/a>with Richard Armitage; it contains minor spoilers about Thorin&#8217;s character in the <em>Hobbit<\/em> movies, so don&#8217;t read on if you want to stay spoiler-free!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Among the fascinating comments, Armitage reveals that Thorin&#8217;s beard is all his own; &#8220;Once we&#8217;d decided what the beard was going to be like, I realized I could probably grow it myself,&#8221; he states.\u00a0 He also gives a hint that we will indeed see the backstory\u00a0of the dwarf wars: &#8220;All of the fight skills have been really useful, but because I play the character younger as well \u2026 he fights in a completely different way to when he&#8217;s older. He&#8217;s much more crazy and berserk, and as he&#8217;s got older it becomes more efficient, so he doesn&#8217;t waste any energy.&#8221;\u00a0 Other intriguing remarks include discussion of tension between Thorin and Gandalf, and Thorin&#8217;s attitude to the burglar they have to take along on their quest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read all that Armitage had to say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/features\/1629\/richard-armitage-talks-the-hobbit\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 And if you&#8217;re hungry for more from the set of the <em>Hobbit<\/em> movies, check out comingsoon.net&#8217;s great article in two parts &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/movienews.php?id=96114\" target=\"_blank\">part one <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/news\/interviewsnews.php?id=96351\" target=\"_blank\">part two<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of interesting articles came to our attention today &#8211; so we&#8217;re sharing them with you!\u00a0 Darkhorizons.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":46233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[1300,4,1711,1292,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-movie-rumors","category-richard-armitage","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/thorin-richardarmitage520.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gGu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64142,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138\/revisions\/64142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}