{"id":73733,"date":"2013-06-16T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T13:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=73733"},"modified":"2013-06-16T08:50:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T13:50:24","slug":"stephen-fry-has-never-completed-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/06\/16\/73733-stephen-fry-has-never-completed-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry has never completed The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Stephenfry-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stephenfry\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-34395 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Stephenfry-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Stephenfry.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/> The Desolation of Smaug star Stephen Fry has admitted that he has never read The Hobbit.<\/p>\n<p>Fry &#8212; who appears as The Master of Laketown in the second instalment of the film trilogy &#8212; confessed that he only skim-read the parts of the novel that featured his character.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Richard Herring&#8217;s Leicester Square Podcast, the 55-year-old said: &#8220;I usually read scripts. But The Hobbit, I&#8217;m not sure I should say this, but I&#8217;ve never read The Hobbit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And on the plane to New Zealand, which is a long flight, you&#8217;d have thought I&#8217;d have time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that he used the search function on his iPad to find the sections that his character featured in in the novel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something about a hole in the ground where a hobbit lived. My character was called The Master of Laketown, so I thought, there&#8217;s a lot of this. There&#8217;s a search function, so I just put in &#8216;The Master&#8217; and it went to all the bits I was in.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.com.au\/movies\/news\/a490430\/desolation-of-smaug-star-stephen-fry-ive-never-read-the-hobbit.html\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Desolation of Smaug star Stephen Fry has admitted that he has never read The Hobbit. Fry &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44509,"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":[7,1300,4,466,148],"tags":[2009],"class_list":["post-73733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-stephen-fry","category-hobbit","tag-the-master-of-laketown"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Stephen_Fry_cropped.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-jbf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73733","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73736,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73733\/revisions\/73736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}