{"id":11586,"date":"2011-01-27T21:42:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T02:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=11586"},"modified":"2011-01-27T21:42:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T02:42:31","slug":"saoirse-ronan-joins-hobbit-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/27\/saoirse-ronan-joins-hobbit-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Saoirse Ronan Joins HOBBIT Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SaoirseRonan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11587\" title=\"SaoirseRonan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/SaoirseRonan-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a>Sixteen-year-old actress Saoirse Ronan is the latest person to join the cast of Peter Jackson&#8217;s <strong>The Hobbit<\/strong>. Although no official announcement has been made, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iftn.ie\/news\/?act1=record&amp;only=1&amp;aid=73&amp;rid=4283633&amp;tpl=archnews&amp;force=1\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with casting director Ros Hubbard, who also worked on Jackson&#8217;s epic <strong>The Lord Of The Rings<\/strong>, has confirmed that the <strong>Atonement<\/strong> and <strong>Lovely Bones<\/strong> actress will be appearing in the two-part adaption of J R R Tolkien&#8217;s classic novel.<\/p>\n<p>As there&#8217;s no female characters of note in The Hobbit, speculation is running that Ronan will be playing a young elf maiden by the name of Itaril. However, the character name doesn&#8217;t actually appear anywhere in Tolkien&#8217;s work that I can find. Is her character part of the material from the <em>Lord Of The Rings<\/em>&#8216;s appendices that Jackson is mining for additional story material?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Sixteen-year-old actress Saoirse Ronan is the latest person to join the cast of Peter Jackson&#8217;s The Hobbit. Although no official announcement has been made, an interview with casting director Ros Hubbard, who also worked on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/27\/saoirse-ronan-joins-hobbit-cast\/\" title=\"Saoirse Ronan Joins HOBBIT Cast\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1597,1816],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-saoirse-ronan","8":"tag-the-hobbit"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11586"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}