{"id":70555,"date":"2013-04-07T02:29:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T07:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=70555"},"modified":"2013-04-07T04:58:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T09:58:01","slug":"two-new-videos-hobbit-cast-members-opine-on-smaug-and-why-the-films-are-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/04\/07\/70555-two-new-videos-hobbit-cast-members-opine-on-smaug-and-why-the-films-are-so-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new videos: &#8216;Hobbit&#8217; cast members opine on Smaug and why the films are so long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/04\/07\/70555-two-new-videos-hobbit-cast-members-opine-on-smaug-and-why-the-films-are-so-long\/bilbo-on-gold\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70564\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70564 no-lazyload\" alt=\"bilbo on gold\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bilbo-on-gold-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bilbo-on-gold-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bilbo-on-gold-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bilbo-on-gold.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Observant Net watchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/TolkienForever\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tolkien Forever<\/a> group in Los Angeles spotted these two new videos this week in which cast members, including Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt, and Andy Serkis, weigh in on the dragon we&#8217;re all waiting for and on the decision to make three &#8216;Hobbit&#8217; films.<\/p>\n<p>In the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/videos\/2013\/04\/02\/hobbit-cast-talk-smaug\">video from IGN<\/a>, cast members discuss what they know (or don&#8217;t) about the mysterious Smaug, and what we can expect to see of the dragon in <em>The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/em>. Richard Armitage (Thorin) says, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen the dragon, and I begged them to show me the dragon!&#8221; And James Nesbitt (Bofur) tantalizes us, saying, &#8220;I think it will blow people away&#8230; I think it will be an important and exciting cinematic moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the second <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.movies.yahoo.com\/-exclusive--hobbit-stars-on-why-it-had-to-be-long-194149764.html\">video from Yahoo! Movies<\/a>, cast members address the questions why <em>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em> is quite long, and why there was a need for three full films to tell the full <em>Hobbit<\/em> story. Andy Serkis (Gollum) sums it up by saying, &#8220;Pete likes to make long films.&#8221; But Richard Armitage assures us that, &#8220;come the Battle of the Five Armies, you&#8217;re going to be glad you took the time in Bag End.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/videos\/2013\/04\/02\/hobbit-cast-talk-smaug\" target=\"_blank\">IGN: Hobbit Cast Talk Smaug<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.movies.yahoo.com\/-exclusive--hobbit-stars-on-why-it-had-to-be-long-194149764.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo: Hobbit Stars on why it had to be long<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observant Net watchers from the Tolkien Forever group in Los Angeles spotted these two new videos this week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4428,"featured_media":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,1418,4,1711,1320,1420,1292,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serkis","category-cast-qa","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-movie-rumors","category-james-nesbitt","category-production-qa","category-richard-armitage","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ilZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70555","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\/4428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70555"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70582,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70555\/revisions\/70582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}