{"id":87878,"date":"2014-03-24T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=87878"},"modified":"2014-03-24T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T22:20:07","slug":"middle-earth-march-madness-round-2-closes-today-vote-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/03\/24\/87878-middle-earth-march-madness-round-2-closes-today-vote-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-earth March Madness Round 2 closes today!  VOTE NOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014Bracket2.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-87763 no-lazyload\" alt=\"2014Bracket2\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014Bracket2-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014Bracket2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014Bracket2-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014Bracket2-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014Bracket2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Middle-earth March Madness continues!\u00a0The competition is going strong, as your favourite Middle-earth characters (and objects!) battle to make it through to Round 3.\u00a0Today is your last chance to vote in the second round &#8211; who will survive?<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>Lonely Mountain<\/strong> bracket, Aragorn and Elrond both look like they&#8217;ll have quite comfortable victories (over the Balrog of Moria, and Fingolfin, respectively); it&#8217;s a little closer between Treebeard and Gollum, though it looks like the Ent will overcome the tricksy one.\u00a0 Much tighter is the contest between Frodo Baggins and Bard; Frodo is on top at the moment, but there&#8217;s still time for Bard to make a late comeback!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/03\/21\/87760-round-2-of-middle-earth-march-madness-is-upon-us\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Vote now <\/a>if you want the Bowman to stay in the competition!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The<strong> Bag End<\/strong> bracket doesn&#8217;t have any particularly close calls at the moment; it seems the Black Arrow is no match for Anduril, Flame of the West, and poor Glorfindel looks like he&#8217;ll be out of the contest as well as out of the movies, as Bilbo is currently on the road to victory over the elf.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Erebor<\/strong> bracket contains the closest struggle right now; it&#8217;s almost 50\/50 between the skin changer and the wraith! Beorn and the Witch-king of Angmar are locked in a fierce battle &#8211; who will triumph? The decision could be in your hands &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/03\/21\/87760-round-2-of-middle-earth-march-madness-is-upon-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">add your vote!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally in the <strong>Mirkwood<\/strong> bracket, it looks like it may be the end for the red haired elf! Samwise Gamgee is currently well in the lead over Tauriel; it is her fight, but it may be her LAST fight in this year&#8217;s March Madness.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/03\/21\/87760-round-2-of-middle-earth-march-madness-is-upon-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Make your voice heard <\/a>if you want to save the woodland warrior.<\/p>\n<p>Round 3 will be up tomorrow &#8211; who will still be in the running to be this year&#8217;s Middle-earth March Madness Champion?\u00a0 It&#8217;s in your hands &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/03\/21\/87760-round-2-of-middle-earth-march-madness-is-upon-us\/\" target=\"_blank\"> click here to vote before Round 2 closes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle-earth March Madness continues!\u00a0The competition is going strong, as your favourite Middle-earth characters (and objects!) battle to make&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":87763,"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":[499,14,7,91,148,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-events","category-hobbit-book","category-events-other","category-hobbit","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014Bracket2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-mRo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87878","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=87878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87880,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87878\/revisions\/87880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}