{"id":1514,"date":"2018-03-09T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T10:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2018-05-03T14:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T14:01:08","slug":"the-new-lords-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"The New Lords of the Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.2.1″ background_image=”http:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/background_brain_bw.jpg” custom_padding=”0|0px|0|0px|false|false”][et_pb_row gutter_width=”1″ _builder_version=”3.2.1″ background_image=”http:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/background_brain_bw.jpg” background_color=”#efefef” custom_padding=”0|0px|0|0px|false|false” use_custom_gutter=”on”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_post_title meta=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”3.2.1″ background_color=”#efefef” custom_padding=”20px|20px||20px”][\/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.2.1″ background_color=”#efefef” custom_padding=”|20px|20px|20px”]\"\"<\/a>Moseley owes JRR Tolkien a debt like no other. Few of our famous residents have had such an impact on the world stage. In their own way, Sue Beardsmore<\/a> and Toyah<\/a> defined news and music for a generation but JRR Tolkein\u2019s homoerotic masterpieces have brought Moseley to the attention of the world.<\/p>\n

In his formative years Tolkien was more Moseley than any other literary giant; from doing a paper round for Select and Save to eating a mixed grill in the Elizabeth of York the man bled B13. It was therefore fitting that yesterday the cast of the new Lord of the Rings films decided that Moseley was the best place to make their first public announcement.<\/p>\n

Enigmatic movie maker, Peter Jackson<\/a>, told us \u201cSome people have been surprised at my decision to cast comedy Minister Chris Grayling<\/a> but I felt a project as large as this would need some light relief. I hope that he can bring the slapstick approach he is famous for to the big screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you can see, we\u2019ve also got Roy Wood<\/a> playing a magic man, or wizard, as I like to call them. With this cast, we\u2019ve really brought the heart of the Midlands to Middle Earth. And this time we’ve got a woman in it, so there’s something for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andy Street<\/a> told us \u201cI\u2019m not playing a hobbit\u201d.<\/p>\n

Is the world ready for more Lord of the Rings? Even though all of Tolkien\u2019s books have had every last ounce of creativity extracted from them you can\u2019t stop capitalism so, ready or not, there\u2019s going to be another three films of eye-watering length.<\/p>\n

*Please note the photo is courtesy of Andy Street, the new King of the Midlands. We publish in anticipation of permission that we haven\u2019t got around to asking for yet.
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Moseley owes JRR Tolkien a debt like no other. Few of our famous residents have had such an impact on the world stage. In their own way, Sue Beardsmore and Toyah defined news and music for a generation but JRR Tolkein\u2019s homoerotic masterpieces have brought Moseley to the attention of the world. In his formative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

\"\"<\/a>Moseley owes JRR Tolkien a debt like no other. Few of our famous residents have had such an impact on the world stage. In their own way, Sue Beardsmore<\/a> and Toyah<\/a> defined news and music for a generation but JRR Tolkein\u2019s homoerotic masterpieces have brought Moseley to the attention of the world.<\/p>

In his formative years Tolkien was more Moseley than any other literary giant; from doing a paper round for Select and Save to eating a mixed grill in the Elizabeth of York the man bled B13. It was therefore fitting that yesterday the cast of the new Lord of the Rings films decided that Moseley was the best place to make their first public announcement.<\/p>

Enigmatic movie maker, Peter Jackson<\/a>, told us \u201cSome people have been surprised at my decision to cast comedy Minister Chris Grayling<\/a> but I felt a project as large as this would need some light relief. I hope that he can bring the slapstick approach he is famous for to the big screen.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cAs you can see, we\u2019ve also got Roy Wood<\/a> playing a magic man, or wizard, as I like to call them. With this cast, we\u2019ve really brought the heart of the Midlands to Middle Earth. And this time we've got a woman in it, so there's something for everyone.\u201d<\/p>

Andy Street<\/a> told us \u201cI\u2019m not playing a hobbit\u201d.<\/p>

Is the world ready for more Lord of the Rings? Even though all of Tolkien\u2019s books have had every last ounce of creativity extracted from them you can\u2019t stop capitalism so, ready or not, there\u2019s going to be another three films of eye-watering length.<\/p>

*Please note the photo is courtesy of Andy Street, the new King of the Midlands. We publish in anticipation of permission that we haven\u2019t got around to asking for yet.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/lotr.png?fit=1094%2C647&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2okCM-oq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeonmoseley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}