{"id":90806,"date":"2014-07-04T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=90806"},"modified":"2014-07-04T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:55:13","slug":"middle-earth-kickoff-panel-at-fantasy-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/07\/04\/90806-middle-earth-kickoff-panel-at-fantasy-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle-earth kickoff panel at Fantasy Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/07\/04\/90806-middle-earth-kickoff-panel-at-fantasy-con\/fili-barrel\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90808\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-90808 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Fili-barrel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Fili barrel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Fili-barrel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Fili-barrel-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Fili-barrel-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Official Day 1 of FantasyCon was yesterday, July 3 and was filled with cosplay, LARPing, music and heraldry. A few awesome Middle-earth costumers\u00a0visited our booth, and we even had a Dwarf in a Barrel. The barrel and the 4 Hobbits standee proved to be quite popular with those holding a camera, especially the children.<\/p>\n<p>At 11am TheOneRing.net hosted their first panel at the convention with the Preview of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies to an enthusiastic crowd. We fully expect that the trailer will be out by the time San Diego Comic Con rolls around in a few weeks, at which point our Preview panel will be dramatically updated.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the day, the entirety of the Tolkien programming track was introduced on stage at the Middle-earth kickoff party. Artists, musicians, writers and TheOneRing.net staff on hand, plus an Avalanche of Dwarves, as John Rhys-Davies put it, a Wizard and a pair of Hobbits converged on the Main Ballroom stage to thunderous applause. Moments later, the entire room went silent, you could almost hear a pin drop, along with one wee Hobbit singing his heart out.<br \/>\n<iframe data-src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s9bk9rvgDUk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During the panel, numerous questions were asked of many Dwarves, Hobbits and a Wizard, but none were handled with quite so much originality as the one about the Dwarven prosthetics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GOmxnhhRlLU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The day ended with the Red Party, a less bloody affair than the Red Wedding. Costumed denizens of Westeros and many other realms all danced the night away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Official Day 1 of FantasyCon was yesterday, July 3 and was filled with cosplay, LARPing, music and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"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":[1344,39,16,14,197,2479,1295,4,153,232,1296,51,1383,5,70,29,31,30,1299,59,1228,148,1636,2497,1911,149,152,1385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-brown","category-boyd","category-events-conventions","category-events","category-fans","category-fantasycon","category-graham-mctavish","category-hobbit-movie","category-tolkien-life","category-jed-brophy","category-john-callen","category-rhysdavies","category-ken-stott","category-lotr-movies","category-fans-meetups","category-fotr-movie","category-rotk-movie","category-ttt-movie","category-peter-hambleton","category-astin","category-sylvester-mccoy","category-hobbit","category-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey","category-the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies","category-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","category-lotr","category-tolkien","category-william-kircher"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-nCC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90806","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90810,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90806\/revisions\/90810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}