{"id":96844,"date":"2015-02-02T14:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T19:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=96844"},"modified":"2015-02-02T14:30:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T19:30:35","slug":"the-middle-earth-prologues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2015\/02\/02\/96844-the-middle-earth-prologues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Middle-earth prologues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-96845 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/prologues-header-1024x426.jpg\" alt=\"prologues (header)\" width=\"377\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/prologues-header-1024x426.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/prologues-header-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/prologues-header-600x249.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/prologues-header.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the first shot of every Middle-earth film?<\/p>\n<p>Sure you do.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also interesting to note the similarities of every opening \u2013 further reinforcing the connections between <em>The Hobbit<\/em> and <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve noticed the odd-one-out of the entire lot \u2026<\/p>\n<p>In the first five films, we have references to the element of fire \u2013 a strong symbolism of the persistent menace of Smaug during <em>The Hobbit<\/em> trilogy, and the One Ring\u2019s indestructible force except through the fiery chasms of Mount Doom in <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atolkienistperspective.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/01\/the-middle-earth-prologues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Do you remember the first shot of every Middle-earth film? Sure you do. It\u2019s also interesting to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14907,"featured_media":55716,"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":"The Middle-earth prologues","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":[4,29,31,30,2490,2497,1911,149],"tags":[1788],"class_list":["post-96844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-fotr-movie","category-rotk-movie","category-ttt-movie","category-the-hobbit-the-battle-of-five-armies","category-the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies","category-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","category-lotr","tag-library"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fotr0041.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-pc0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96844","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\/14907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96844"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96851,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96844\/revisions\/96851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}