{"id":86140,"date":"2014-01-09T11:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=86140"},"modified":"2014-01-09T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:20:36","slug":"blogger-michael-martinez-wonders-just-how-much-padding-there-is-in-pjs-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/01\/09\/86140-blogger-michael-martinez-wonders-just-how-much-padding-there-is-in-pjs-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Michael Martinez wonders just how much padding there is in PJ’s films"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hobbit<\/a>The latest writing from TORn’s friend and regular Tolkien blogger Michael Martinez’s <\/a>considers the content of Peter Jackson’s not one, not two but three<\/em> Hobbit movies.\u00a0The criticism often made is that Jackson has ‘padded’ Tolkien’s brief story, to create enough content for three films; but what of the content from the book which has in fact been lost?\u00a0And how many of Jackson’s additions could be seen as necessary exposition, required to clarify and render cohesive several somewhat ‘glossed over’ plot points from\u00a0The Hobbit<\/em> (upon which Tolkien himself expanded, in the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings,<\/em> for example)?\u00a0Is any of Jackson’s content actually gratuitous padding, simply there to spin out a short tale? You can read Martinez’s take on all this in his interesting blog, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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