{"id":91235,"date":"2014-07-25T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=91235"},"modified":"2014-07-25T13:53:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:53:02","slug":"magic-movies-and-the-lord-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/07\/25\/91235-magic-movies-and-the-lord-of-the-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic, movies and The Lord of the Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Balrog-wings-or-not.jpg\" alt=\"Balrog wings or not\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-70493 no-lazyload\" \/> Cinefex writer Graham Edwards examines what magic in movies should look like, and lists some of his favourite depictions of magic in movies through the years. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His conclusion that magic in movies is most often associated with light is interesting since, in Tolkien, magic so often derives from sound, music and words (think of Frodo saying &#8220;Elbereth&#8221; on Amon Sul, or the Music of the Ainur that brings Arda into existence).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPortraying magic on the screen requires considerable ingenuity. As a filmmaker, how exactly do you visualise this eldritch and elusive force? Do you stir up a witch\u2019s brew of pyrotechnics and black powder? Do you unleash your best fire and fluid sims?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/cinefex.com\/blog\/magic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinefex writer Graham Edwards examines what magic in movies should look like, and lists some of his favourite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":70493,"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":[36,331,35,5,29,31,30,38,149,37],"tags":[1788],"class_list":["post-91235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fotr-book","category-greenbooks","category-lotr-books","category-lotr-movies","category-fotr-movie","category-rotk-movie","category-ttt-movie","category-rotk-book","category-lotr","category-ttt-book","tag-library"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Balrog-wings-or-not.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-nJx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91235","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91322,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91235\/revisions\/91322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}