{"id":67804,"date":"2012-12-30T08:32:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T13:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=67804"},"modified":"2012-12-30T08:32:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T13:32:47","slug":"connolly-is-no-fan-of-tolkien-people-or-so-he-jests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/12\/30\/67804-connolly-is-no-fan-of-tolkien-people-or-so-he-jests\/","title":{"rendered":"Connolly is no fan of &#8216;Tolkien People&#8217; &#8211; or so he jests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-62220 no-lazyload\" title=\"Billy Connolly set to return to NZ and finds Tolkien unreadable\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Billy-Connolly-set-to-return-to-NZ-and-finds-Tolkien-unreadable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Billy-Connolly-set-to-return-to-NZ-and-finds-Tolkien-unreadable.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Billy-Connolly-set-to-return-to-NZ-and-finds-Tolkien-unreadable-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Despite his everyday physical appearance mimicking that of a wizard in Middle-earth, it looks like Billy Connolly, playing Dain in &#8216;<em>The Hobbit<\/em>&#8216; films, is not a fan of Tolkien or Tolkien fans. In a statement to MSN UK Connolly admits:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;No I never read it. And I probably never will. It&#8217;s not my cup of tea. Youthful society when I was younger was divided into Tolkien and non-Tolkien and I was a non-Tolkien and I didn&#8217;t like the Tolkien people,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They were all corduroy and limp wrists and we were all string band people, banjos and bluegrass players and blues players, chasing women about the place, having long hair and they were all talking about the ginks fighting the gonks.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a renown comedian, we are pretty sure Billy is having a spot of fun. After you check out the full article at MSN UK, we can get back to talking about ginks and fighting with gonks : \/ \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/movies.uk.msn.com\/news\/connolly-no-plans-to-read-hobbit\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite his everyday physical appearance mimicking that of a wizard in Middle-earth, it looks like Billy Connolly, playing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":62220,"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":"Connolly: No plans to read Hobbit","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1637,114,1300,4,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-billy-connolly","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Billy-Connolly-set-to-return-to-NZ-and-finds-Tolkien-unreadable.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-hDC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67804","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\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67805,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67804\/revisions\/67805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}