{"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&#8217;s films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hobbit-Sky-Movies.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-83369 no-lazyload\" alt=\"Hobbit Sky Movies\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hobbit-Sky-Movies-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hobbit-Sky-Movies-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hobbit-Sky-Movies-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hobbit-Sky-Movies-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The latest writing from TORn&#8217;s friend and regular<a href=\"http:\/\/middle-earth.xenite.org\/2014\/01\/07\/how-much-padding-is-there-in-peter-jacksons-hobbit-trilogy\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Tolkien blogger Michael Martinez&#8217;s <\/a>considers the content of Peter Jackson&#8217;s not one, not two but <em>three<\/em> Hobbit movies.\u00a0The criticism often made is that Jackson has &#8216;padded&#8217; Tolkien&#8217;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&#8217;s additions could be seen as necessary exposition, required to clarify and render cohesive several somewhat &#8216;glossed over&#8217; plot points from\u00a0<em>The Hobbit<\/em> (upon which Tolkien himself expanded, in the Appendices to <em>The Lord of the Rings,<\/em> for example)?\u00a0Is any of Jackson&#8217;s content actually gratuitous padding, simply there to spin out a short tale? You can read Martinez&#8217;s take on all this in his interesting blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/middle-earth.xenite.org\/2014\/01\/07\/how-much-padding-is-there-in-peter-jacksons-hobbit-trilogy\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest writing from TORn&#8217;s friend and regular Tolkien blogger Michael Martinez&#8217;s considers the content of Peter Jackson&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83369,"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":[7,4,153,35,74,148,149,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie","category-tolkien-life","category-lotr-books","category-jackson","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hobbit-Sky-Movies.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-mpm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86140","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=86140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86142,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86140\/revisions\/86142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}