{"id":67884,"date":"2013-01-03T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T16:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=67884"},"modified":"2013-01-03T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T16:04:31","slug":"critics-dislike-peter-jacksons-the-hobbit-at-their-own-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/01\/03\/67884-critics-dislike-peter-jacksons-the-hobbit-at-their-own-peril\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics dislike Peter Jackson&#8217;s The Hobbit at their own peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?attachment_id=67901\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67901\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HobbitDwarf-poster-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"HobbitDwarf poster\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-67901 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HobbitDwarf-poster-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HobbitDwarf-poster-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HobbitDwarf-poster-600x874.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HobbitDwarf-poster.jpg 1029w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>The Huffington Post recently posted a story about why many critics currently savaging The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will regret it in the long run. It has more to do with the fuller history of Middle-earth, of which most critics are completely unaware, and less to do with them reviewing the first part of a trilogy that has yet to play out. This article gives a run down of the pertinent bits of Middle-earth history before The Hobbit, and the time between the two stories, to more fully connect them and give a proper perspective to character motivation. <\/p>\n<p>Please note that there are some <strong>SPOILERS<\/strong> in this article for those who have not yet read the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/seth-abramson\/dislike-peter-jacksons-em_b_2342591.html\">Read for more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post recently posted a story about why many critics currently savaging The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":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":[499,7,4,5,148,149,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-movies","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-hEU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67884","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67910,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67884\/revisions\/67910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}