{"id":85552,"date":"2013-12-27T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T16:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=85552"},"modified":"2013-12-27T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T16:37:19","slug":"questions-questions-that-need-answering-in-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/12\/27\/85552-questions-questions-that-need-answering-in-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions (questions that need answering!) in &#8216;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"intro\">Disclaimer:\u00a0 I enjoyed &#8216;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8217; very much, and have seen it 3 times as of this writing.\u00a0 Smaug\u00a0is, in this writers opinion, THE dragon to end all dragons, and the creative team deserves kudos for the incredible sets, cgi,\u00a0costumes, and Thranduil&#8217;s eyebrows.\u00a0\u00a0 So it is with love and respect that I ask the following questions (spoilers ahead):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">**************************************************************************************************************************<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-85581 no-lazyload\" alt=\"Tolkien Facebook Cover by Otis Frampton 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tolkien-Facebook-Cover-by-Otis-Frampton-2-300x111.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tolkien-Facebook-Cover-by-Otis-Frampton-2-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tolkien-Facebook-Cover-by-Otis-Frampton-2-600x222.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Tolkien-Facebook-Cover-by-Otis-Frampton-2.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Illustration by Otis Frampton<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Is it ever sunny and dry in Bree?<\/li>\n<li>Where does Beorn keep his pants post-skin change?<\/li>\n<li>What snarky remark must Thranduil\u00a0have said\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0dragon (Smaug?)\u00a0to get that nasty scar on his face?<\/li>\n<li>Does Tauriel\u00a0secretly have an &#8220;I (heart) Hot Dwarves&#8221; t-shirt under her outfit? (\u00a0Legolas must be jealous.)<\/li>\n<li>What is the landspeed\u00a0velocity of an unladen Orc?<\/li>\n<li>Gandalf\u00a0appears to use the Patronus spell during his encounter with <del>The Necromancer <\/del>Saaauuurrron.\u00a0 What form would it take?<\/li>\n<li>Where did Tauriel\u00a0(a self-described\u00a0&#8216;lowly Sylvan Elf&#8217;) learn such impressive healing skills? \u00a0(Arwen must be\u00a0jealous.)<\/li>\n<li>How would Smaug\u00a0have known the name &#8216;Oakenshield&#8217;, unless he leaves Erebor for the occasional\u00a0pint at the Prancing Pony?<\/li>\n<li>Did the dwarves REALLY think that a little molten gold would hurt a fire-breathing dragon with impenetrable scales, or did they just think a little bling would soothe his hurt feelings?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer:\u00a0 I enjoyed &#8216;The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug&#8217; very much, and have seen it 3 times as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":85581,"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":[4,148,1911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit","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\/12\/Tolkien-Facebook-Cover-by-Otis-Frampton-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-mfS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85552","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85552"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85601,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85552\/revisions\/85601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}