{"id":99858,"date":"2015-12-02T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T02:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=99858"},"modified":"2015-12-02T15:56:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:56:33","slug":"gollum-or-smeagol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2015\/12\/02\/99858-gollum-or-smeagol\/","title":{"rendered":"Gollum or Smeagol….?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gollumface\"<\/a>Are you of Sam’s opinion, that Gollum is just a ‘stinker’, with ‘naught left in him but lies and deceit’? Or are you on Frodo’s side, believing Smeagol has good in him yet? Does he redeem himself at the end, with his sacrifice, or does an accidental tumble into lava not count for redemption?<\/p>\n

In a bizarre piece of news, a court in Turkey has called in experts to debate this\u00a0very issue. A doctor is accused of insulting the Turkish President by comparing him to Gollum; his lawyer is arguing, in his defense, that Gollum is not a bad character – so a team of five (including a ‘movie expert’) has been put together to decide.<\/p>\n

What would your decision be, if you were called to sit on such a panel?!<\/p>\n

Read more about this news story here <\/a>and here<\/a>. Thanks to spies davem, Lanirth and Manitou333 for sending us the news!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you of Sam’s opinion, that Gollum is just a ‘stinker’, with ‘naught left in him but lies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67187,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[499,7,35,495,148,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-book","category-lotr-books","category-miscellaneous","category-hobbit","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t