{"id":22995,"date":"2015-03-16T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=22995"},"modified":"2015-03-06T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T21:47:31","slug":"lego-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/lego-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego: The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1056229\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-22996 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lego-the-hobbit.jpg?resize=280%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"lego the hobbit\" width=\"280\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lego-the-hobbit.jpg?w=280&amp;ssl=1 280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lego-the-hobbit.jpg?resize=210%2C300&amp;ssl=1 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>I must admit that I love any kind of adaptations of books and movies. Find me a funny book about one random character in a famous movie or even a graphic novel about a classic book that I could never make it through in school and\u00a0I will be a happy camper. Imagine my happiness when I discovered movies that had been made into videogames! SCORE!<\/p>\n<p>Having just been to see the new Hobbit movie (and\u00a0succumbing to my deep love of anything Lego-related,) I decided to check out <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1056229\" target=\"_blank\">Lego: The Hobbit<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>on Xbox 360. (Want to check out this game, but don&#8217;t have an Xbox 360? No problem! The library also has it in <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1058810\" target=\"_blank\">Wii U<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1059151\" target=\"_blank\">Playstation 3<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1084653\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo 3DS<\/a>.) From the creators of <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=14.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=973051\" target=\"_blank\">Lego: The Lord of the Rings<\/a> (also available in different platforms &#8211; just search the catalog by the videogame name), came <em>Lego: The Hobbit<\/em>, a game inspired by the first two films in the Hobbit trilogy, <em>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey <\/em>and <em>The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug<\/em>. This game allows players to follow and play along with\u00a0Bilbo Baggins as he leaves the Shire and rambles through Middle Earth in order to help the dwarves in Lonely Mountain. Traipse around with Thorin Oakenshield, Gandalf, Bilbo, trolls, orcs, and dwarves as you encounter different quests set up to challenge your abilities to conquer the dwarves&#8217; powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit that I love any kind of adaptations of books and movies. Find me a funny book about one random character in a famous movie or even a graphic novel about a classic book that I could never make it through in school and\u00a0I will be a happy<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/lego-the-hobbit\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1,8,2835],"tags":[2855,2837,2820,1611],"class_list":["post-22995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","category-staff-picks","category-videogames","tag-adaptations","tag-the-hobbit","tag-videogames","tag-xbox-360"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5YT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23165,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22995\/revisions\/23165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}