{"id":79332,"date":"2013-09-19T15:25:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=79332"},"modified":"2013-09-19T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T20:25:28","slug":"did-peter-jackson-give-us-a-clue-about-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/09\/19\/79332-did-peter-jackson-give-us-a-clue-about-smaug\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Peter Jackson give us a clue about Smaug?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">We&#8217;re all eagerly awaiting <em>The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/em>, and just what exactly that magnificent dragon will be like on the big screen has long been a question on our minds.\u00a0 Of course, we saw quite a lot of Smaug in the <em>Desolation<\/em> trailer &#8211; but it seems like Peter Jackson and his team may have given us a crafty hint about the mighty worm way back at the very beginning of the first <em>Hobbit<\/em> movie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smaug-logo.gif\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79333 no-lazyload\" alt=\"smaug logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smaug-logo.gif\" width=\"360\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the opening WB logo which can be see on the DVD\/Blu-ray of<em> The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em>.\u00a0 See what is in the clouds just to the left of the WB shield?\u00a0 That&#8217;s a dragon, right?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the standard WB opening to the right, together side by side with this <em>Hobbit<\/em> one, where we&#8217;ve outlined the potential Smaug in red.\u00a0 Staffer Arandir thinks there may be a thrush to the right of the shield, too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WB-logos.png\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-79338 no-lazyload\" alt=\"WB logos\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WB-logos-1024x254.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WB-logos-1024x254.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WB-logos-300x74.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WB-logos-600x148.png 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WB-logos.png 1342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Are we just seeing things in the clouds?\u00a0 Or was there a sly suggestion of what was to come, hidden in that opening moment?\u00a0 Maybe you spotted this months ago &#8211; or maybe you see something else we haven&#8217;t seen!<\/p>\n<p>Let us know your thoughts!\u00a0 And in case you&#8217;re still pondering, here&#8217;s another look:<br \/>\n<iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/hv7iviug32x\/embed\/simple\" height=\"480\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.vine.co\/static\/scripts\/embed.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all eagerly awaiting The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and just what exactly that magnificent dragon will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79333,"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":[4,148,1636,1911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit","category-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey","category-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/smaug-logo.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-kDy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79332","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=79332"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79343,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79332\/revisions\/79343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}