{"id":90558,"date":"2014-06-27T05:07:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T10:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=90558"},"modified":"2014-06-27T05:07:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T10:07:23","slug":"fancy-owning-gandalfs-horse-from-the-desolation-of-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/06\/27\/90558-fancy-owning-gandalfs-horse-from-the-desolation-of-smaug\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy owning Gandalf&#8217;s horse from The Desolation of Smaug?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/321795790-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"321795790\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90562 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/321795790-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/321795790-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/321795790-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/321795790-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/321795790.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Well now you can.<\/p>\n<p>Ringer Rohan Refugee sends us this report from TV3 New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit fans are some of the most loyal and devoted of them all.<br \/>\nThey have spent hundreds of millions seeing the movie and they come to New Zealand in their droves to see where their beloved films were made.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And New Zealand puts it on for them -\u2013 for example, they even have a Hobbit beer in Matamata at the Green Dragon. Well now The Hobbit fans can go one better still.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Celebrity horse trainer Steve Old is putting the Clydesdale that Gandalf rode in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and we&#8217;ll see ride in the final film, The Battle of the Five Armies, up for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Old notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/04\/06\/88420-in-memory-of-shadowfax\/\">the late, great Shadowfax<\/a> (real name Blanco) was sold to the US for $50,000. But he suspects that Big Nick won&#8217;t fetch quite as much. <\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Your-chance-to-ride-on-Gandalfs-horse\/tabid\/817\/articleID\/350501\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to watch TV3 reporter Dan Parker&#8217;s interview with Old.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BigNickDoS04-1024x412.jpg\" alt=\"BigNickDoS04\" width=\"1024\" height=\"412\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-90563 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BigNickDoS04-1024x412.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BigNickDoS04-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BigNickDoS04-600x241.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BigNickDoS04.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well now you can. Ringer Rohan Refugee sends us this report from TV3 New Zealand. The Lord of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":90563,"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":[197,1300,4,49,2497,1911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fans","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-mckellen","category-the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies","category-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BigNickDoS04.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-nyC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90558","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\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90567,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90558\/revisions\/90567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}