The best part of this film: it was made in the era before Tolkien had taken over fantasy. It's really quite interesting to see people willing to totally change names of creatures/how they work without the natural limitations we have now that Tolkien's world is ingrained in our consciousness.
There, see! Why spend all that money making the Hobbit TWO films when one can tell the story perfectly well in about 12 minutes! (When I say "perfect" I am of course using the term imperfectly, and when I say "well" I actually mean horribly badly} This is a great example of the kind of unthinking rubbish that pervaded animation during the "Dark Ages" of 1960 to 1988. Even the monster names are wrong.
See, the more I watch this, the more I actually respect it. Seeing as how it was never meant to be screened, and was only an Ashcan film to preserve the rights for future sale - it's actually half decent. Sure, as an all up adaptation it's terrible, but for what it was intended to do, it's not that bad.
The more I watch this, the more I get the feeling that the writer behind this short just took various fantasy tropes used by Tolkien that they told him about and just mixed them randomly. Besides the name change, the trolls seem to be an amalgam of the actual turned-to-stone trolls from the Hobbit and the ents from LOTR. And Gollum is like a crossover of Gollum and Shelob (why the hell is he bigger than Bilbo and looks so spiderry ?).
@ZemplinTemplar now actually, tolkien didnt state how big gollum was in the original version, so early art of the books often depicted him being larger and tolkien later clarified that gollum is supposed to be about as big as a hobbit. no comment on the spider part, though : P
I'm not surprised Tolkien was so affraid of letting anyone adapt his works to film. Back when he was still alive, most of the attempted adaptations were utter crap that didn't even try making heads or tails of the basics of his stories. This little movie is a really surreal find, all the more when I realized the animation was done by none other than Adolf Born. :-)) What are the odds of a 60s animated Hobbit made as an American-Czechoslovak production... :-D
Thorin was a dwarf not a human and there was no princess, it's Smaug not Slag, where are the other dwarfs?, groans? it was trolls, Gooloom? it's Gollum, where are the goblins?
Though I kind of like the picture ("animation" just isn't the right word), I never thought I'd see a version of "The Hobbit" that makes the Rankin and Bass version look dignified.
This is from the "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" not the The Lord of the Rings. Its a different book. Its basically the story about Bilbo and how he have acquired the Ring of Power. It came out earlier before Fellowship of the Ring (which was the book sequel).
I gotta admit, this is charming to watch, but wow, somebody did not read the book very carefully when they put this together! They glossed over a lot and refocused the main point to something that was not seen in any other interpretation I'm aware of...
This is like if the Hobbit was real and this was the corrupted legend that was handed down for hundreds of years. Like the legend of King Arthur sort of.
Does this guys LOTR adaptation feature Sauruuuun, Sallaman the white wizard, 4 thin hobbits Brodo Baggins, Samuel Gamgee, Perry Took, and Happy Brandybuck, and their quest to Whoredor. Their companions are Faragorn, Hamli, Eggolas, and a man who looks like Sean Bean but has a codename: 006............hmm...*cough*
@TheBioLover No too many characters. Just Bilbo again, General Thorin, Princess Miko, Gandalf and Stoder versus two Brown Riders, one Slob the Spider, some groblins and Lord Sowrong (who turns out to be a really pissed off Golum bent on revenge)... all done in about 17 minutes. (bigger budget as LOTR is a bigger book).
I suppose they could do a "Hobbit in 60 Seconds with Bunnies" shockwave animation that might be more loosely adapted. "Suppose" is the operative word.
The fact that this often read story was realized with an apocryphal children's picture book interpretation is what I found entertaining. It was like when Mr. Magoo becomes a part of any classic story.
Oh, Peach is there too. But wait...Its Mario Baggins? Without a Hat and the mustache? kkkkkkkkk Creepiest thing that I could never imagine. But great Work. I've loved it
That was easily the most grotesque perversion of a classic I've ever had the misfortune of watching. There wasn't even any purpose for the changes. They were pointless and offensive.
@SchvennMeister@SchvennMeister I read about this on Cracked.com(thumbs up lolol!). Apparently this was made in the early sixties when no one had heard about a quietly published night time story written for the author's children. The creator of this tried to capitalize on a charming little story and pulled it together quickly. I enjoyed it anyway, but yeah I dont see why they put in a princess and made Thorin a bumbling soldier instead of a leader of 12 other dwarves. but whatever, it exists.
@darkmagic42 Yeah, it's like the outline of a Disney-style fairytale adaptation, a film that keeps the tale in the public consciousness even if a lot of it's different. It might have been fun to have had the real full-length animation made to see how all their story changes played out, but nowadays everyone's too attached to the original texts to appreciate a retelling in another style.
I feel like The Hobbit was summarized for the creator by someone who had read the book once as a child, then from the poor re-telling he made this adaptation. Still awesome, though...
The '60s art style and the tenuous connection to the written story reminds me of the ludicrous Ballantine 1965 paperback LOTR covers. Tolkien's criticisms of them in "Letters" are hilarious and sad at the same time. Quick question for UK oldtimers - did "slag" have the same slang meaning in the '60s as it does now?
it's almost a shame they kept some of the original names, if this had absolutely nothing to do with The Hobbit (as opposed to having, say, its title and 3 character names right...) it would be perfect on its own.
Anyway, thumbs up if The Escapist brought you here? :D
This video pronounces Gollum's name like it should be, Go-Loom, emphasis "loom", like a swallowing-noise, Not "gollem". Serkis and Peter Jackson fudged that one, having him cough "GOLLEM!" like he had asthma.
I.. but... the.... Good effort, kudos on making money from it, but as an adaptation of the source material... I could get a stroke from watching this. That said, awesome that he made it that quickly and made that much money from it. It could have sucked a whole lot more.
I was about to comment about the stupidity of adding a female character in the story and how a real adaptation would never make such a horrible mistake, but then I remembered that Peter Jackson is doing precisely this.
This is kind of like looking through a collection of elaborate psychedelic album cover art while your crazy Auntie tries to tell you a story she read as a child and she is both remembering the details wrong and getting them confused with parts of other stories. And that is why this is AMAZING! Thank you so much for sharing it!
The best part of this film: it was made in the era before Tolkien had taken over fantasy. It's really quite interesting to see people willing to totally change names of creatures/how they work without the natural limitations we have now that Tolkien's world is ingrained in our consciousness.
There, see! Why spend all that money making the Hobbit TWO films when one can tell the story perfectly well in about 12 minutes! (When I say "perfect" I am of course using the term imperfectly, and when I say "well" I actually mean horribly badly} This is a great example of the kind of unthinking rubbish that pervaded animation during the "Dark Ages" of 1960 to 1988. Even the monster names are wrong.
See, the more I watch this, the more I actually respect it. Seeing as how it was never meant to be screened, and was only an Ashcan film to preserve the rights for future sale - it's actually half decent. Sure, as an all up adaptation it's terrible, but for what it was intended to do, it's not that bad.
The more I watch this, the more I get the feeling that the writer behind this short just took various fantasy tropes used by Tolkien that they told him about and just mixed them randomly. Besides the name change, the trolls seem to be an amalgam of the actual turned-to-stone trolls from the Hobbit and the ents from LOTR. And Gollum is like a crossover of Gollum and Shelob (why the hell is he bigger than Bilbo and looks so spiderry ?).
@ZemplinTemplar now actually, tolkien didnt state how big gollum was in the original version, so early art of the books often depicted him being larger and tolkien later clarified that gollum is supposed to be about as big as a hobbit. no comment on the spider part, though : P
I'm not surprised Tolkien was so affraid of letting anyone adapt his works to film. Back when he was still alive, most of the attempted adaptations were utter crap that didn't even try making heads or tails of the basics of his stories. This little movie is a really surreal find, all the more when I realized the animation was done by none other than Adolf Born. :-)) What are the odds of a 60s animated Hobbit made as an American-Czechoslovak production... :-D
Thorin was a dwarf not a human and there was no princess, it's Smaug not Slag, where are the other dwarfs?, groans? it was trolls, Gooloom? it's Gollum, where are the goblins?
Slag the dragon? C'mon!
FrostedPingu 1 week ago 2
The best part of this film: it was made in the era before Tolkien had taken over fantasy. It's really quite interesting to see people willing to totally change names of creatures/how they work without the natural limitations we have now that Tolkien's world is ingrained in our consciousness.
azore24 3 weeks ago 3
Did you come here because of Patrick Rothfuss? ^^
Tungil06 3 weeks ago 39
There, see! Why spend all that money making the Hobbit TWO films when one can tell the story perfectly well in about 12 minutes! (When I say "perfect" I am of course using the term imperfectly, and when I say "well" I actually mean horribly badly} This is a great example of the kind of unthinking rubbish that pervaded animation during the "Dark Ages" of 1960 to 1988. Even the monster names are wrong.
geniusrepairman1 3 weeks ago
See, the more I watch this, the more I actually respect it. Seeing as how it was never meant to be screened, and was only an Ashcan film to preserve the rights for future sale - it's actually half decent. Sure, as an all up adaptation it's terrible, but for what it was intended to do, it's not that bad.
mimkyodar 4 weeks ago
It may be a questionable take on the book, but damn is that some pretty art!
TotallyCharlie 1 month ago
The more I watch this, the more I get the feeling that the writer behind this short just took various fantasy tropes used by Tolkien that they told him about and just mixed them randomly. Besides the name change, the trolls seem to be an amalgam of the actual turned-to-stone trolls from the Hobbit and the ents from LOTR. And Gollum is like a crossover of Gollum and Shelob (why the hell is he bigger than Bilbo and looks so spiderry ?).
ZemplinTemplar 1 month ago
@ZemplinTemplar now actually, tolkien didnt state how big gollum was in the original version, so early art of the books often depicted him being larger and tolkien later clarified that gollum is supposed to be about as big as a hobbit. no comment on the spider part, though : P
oshronosaurus 1 month ago
I'm not surprised Tolkien was so affraid of letting anyone adapt his works to film. Back when he was still alive, most of the attempted adaptations were utter crap that didn't even try making heads or tails of the basics of his stories. This little movie is a really surreal find, all the more when I realized the animation was done by none other than Adolf Born. :-)) What are the odds of a 60s animated Hobbit made as an American-Czechoslovak production... :-D
ZemplinTemplar 1 month ago
Narration by British actor Arthur Treacher.
heine71 1 month ago
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slowdiving 1 month ago
7:54. Bumbles bounce
slowdiving 1 month ago
2:28.
ALL AT ONCE THEY WERE THERE
green727 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Haha, I had a lot of fun watching this.
ShiroiHyou 1 month ago
Thorin was a dwarf not a human and there was no princess, it's Smaug not Slag, where are the other dwarfs?, groans? it was trolls, Gooloom? it's Gollum, where are the goblins?
MrJohnffrey87 1 month ago
Hey, this was made in 1966. And in Communist country.
>Explanation to everything.
Martysek23 1 month ago
@Martysek23 It was made by Gene Deitch (creator of the Tom&Jerry cartoons)
koshiimarino 1 month ago
@koshiimarino but drawn by a czech illustrator Adolf Born. cheers.
koczek 1 month ago
This may seem like an odd thing to focus on in the sea of oddities, but why is Gandalf the Grey wearing blue?
AndrewTheEternal 1 month ago
Though I kind of like the picture ("animation" just isn't the right word), I never thought I'd see a version of "The Hobbit" that makes the Rankin and Bass version look dignified.
artizek 1 month ago
This is from the "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" not the The Lord of the Rings. Its a different book. Its basically the story about Bilbo and how he have acquired the Ring of Power. It came out earlier before Fellowship of the Ring (which was the book sequel).
DrDuffleBag 1 month ago
2:45 Bilbo mah boi
D000242 1 month ago
I gotta admit, this is charming to watch, but wow, somebody did not read the book very carefully when they put this together! They glossed over a lot and refocused the main point to something that was not seen in any other interpretation I'm aware of...
Wario7793 1 month ago 2
What is this? I don't even....
sofiarune 1 month ago
this makes the Rankin Bass Hobbit/Return of the King and the Bakshi Lord of the Rings normal
aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa 1 month ago
This is like if the Hobbit was real and this was the corrupted legend that was handed down for hundreds of years. Like the legend of King Arthur sort of.
choc113 1 month ago 5
like if you got here from the hobbit's facebook page! ha
BlaineMcc125 1 month ago
Best Shire Ever
TendrilECF 1 month ago
I think 09:44 sums it up nicely:
As i looked at this stupendous scene of both beauty and ugliness, my feelings too were a swirling mix of exhilaration and horror.
whatshesaid84 2 months ago 11
Does this guys LOTR adaptation feature Sauruuuun, Sallaman the white wizard, 4 thin hobbits Brodo Baggins, Samuel Gamgee, Perry Took, and Happy Brandybuck, and their quest to Whoredor. Their companions are Faragorn, Hamli, Eggolas, and a man who looks like Sean Bean but has a codename: 006............hmm...*cough*
TheBioLover 2 months ago 18
@TheBioLover No too many characters. Just Bilbo again, General Thorin, Princess Miko, Gandalf and Stoder versus two Brown Riders, one Slob the Spider, some groblins and Lord Sowrong (who turns out to be a really pissed off Golum bent on revenge)... all done in about 17 minutes. (bigger budget as LOTR is a bigger book).
geniusrepairman1 3 weeks ago
insert douchbag comment regarding plot inaccuracy
caml17 2 months ago
It would have been a great animation of The Hobbit, but then it took an arrow to the knee!
Soerenamsted 2 months ago
I suppose they could do a "Hobbit in 60 Seconds with Bunnies" shockwave animation that might be more loosely adapted. "Suppose" is the operative word.
MageScribe 2 months ago
Holy shit
FGMTC 2 months ago
At 1:40 word of power learned! The word is "SUCKS" It staggers your foe with crappy animation.
Cosmoline 2 months ago
What a shit....
RadziolM 2 months ago
Love the 60s feel. So much more inpressive to make a film with still art and one narrator.
MrVoidtouch 2 months ago
At least Bilbo gets laid in this version.
Eudaimonist 2 months ago 9
The fact that this often read story was realized with an apocryphal children's picture book interpretation is what I found entertaining. It was like when Mr. Magoo becomes a part of any classic story.
RoneBarton 2 months ago
I think this is the worst thing I've ever seen.
Iforgetmyaccountname 2 months ago
Slags ruin everything.
janeeyre1990 2 months ago
Releitura interessante; o Gollum esta muito engraçado.
sjabelski 2 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Oh, Peach is there too. But wait...Its Mario Baggins? Without a Hat and the mustache? kkkkkkkkk Creepiest thing that I could never imagine. But great Work. I've loved it
darkideluck 2 months ago
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darkideluck 2 months ago
I thought it was Smaug? O.O
musicdork4ever 2 months ago
I for one hope PJ's Hobbit will be slightly more accurate than this (by 'slightly more' I mean 5000% more)
hummercubs98 2 months ago 5
Lol, Slag screams like a chick when it died....it was actually kinda creepy.
Glace1221 2 months ago 4
Wow, first time watching it and I just love it! Thanks for sharing this amazing and wonderful pure art.
AlexandraLovesActing 2 months ago
@AlexandraLovesActing WOW! Great acting, Alexandra!
Haardyvark 1 month ago
@Haardyvark Why? Did I wrote something wrong? Explain please :)
AlexandraLovesActing 1 month ago
THIS IS HONESTLY AWFUL
Mokoshne 2 months ago
So bilbo baggins is actually dora the explora
Mehcide 2 months ago 3
@10:13 Legend of Zelda Majoras mask anyone? :D
ododododod09714 2 months ago
Bizarre.
SMDher 2 months ago 2
1:23 "spoken by Erbert Ass.
Cujucuyo 2 months ago
@Cujucuyo spoken out of Erbert's Ass.
StudentInFrance 2 months ago 2
@StudentInFrance HUAHAUHAUHUAHU LOL MOR
JohnLoures 2 months ago
That was easily the most grotesque perversion of a classic I've ever had the misfortune of watching. There wasn't even any purpose for the changes. They were pointless and offensive.
SchvennMeister 2 months ago
@SchvennMeister @SchvennMeister I read about this on Cracked.com(thumbs up lolol!). Apparently this was made in the early sixties when no one had heard about a quietly published night time story written for the author's children. The creator of this tried to capitalize on a charming little story and pulled it together quickly. I enjoyed it anyway, but yeah I dont see why they put in a princess and made Thorin a bumbling soldier instead of a leader of 12 other dwarves. but whatever, it exists.
darkmagic42 2 months ago
@darkmagic42 Yeah, it's like the outline of a Disney-style fairytale adaptation, a film that keeps the tale in the public consciousness even if a lot of it's different. It might have been fun to have had the real full-length animation made to see how all their story changes played out, but nowadays everyone's too attached to the original texts to appreciate a retelling in another style.
BagOfMagicFood 2 months ago
@SchvennMeister wait, fuck. I've been watching really slowly and I just got to the arrow bit. fuck this video.
darkmagic42 2 months ago
@darkmagic42 Would you say it's 'arrowing?
mimkyodar 2 months ago
@SchvennMeister you are a Mullah among Mullahs.
folgsam 4 days ago
This is what would happen if George Lucas mad The Hobbit!
SonofThor73 2 months ago 7
I thought it was "smaug"
myj519 2 months ago
this really happened.
Pagoas1 2 months ago
Why in hell there is a princess ??
P4uloMF 2 months ago
hi aqu
AquartesTheGray 2 months ago
Smaugs name is SLAG??? loooooool
Shakorpaul 2 months ago
Awesome 3D effect @ 04:34! derp
djleo1989 2 months ago 2
The moment Gollum said "Goo-looom" I stopped watching this.
sanguinaryheart 2 months ago 2
thumbs up if this reminds you of Samurai Jack.
dimitreze 2 months ago 2
@dimitreze 00:31-00:50 Long ago in a distant land, Aku unleashed an unspeakable evil!
BagOfMagicFood 2 months ago
A 'loose interpretation' would be an understatement.
YAMAstudios 2 months ago 49
I get Slag, but why "groans" and not trolls? XD also, epylepsia warning...
greengrendel 2 months ago
I feel like The Hobbit was summarized for the creator by someone who had read the book once as a child, then from the poor re-telling he made this adaptation. Still awesome, though...
knivesandpeppers 2 months ago
I think there is a reason it was "lost".
theflinx 2 months ago 5
But, there is one they fear. In there tongue, he is Bilbo Baggins..........HOBBITBORN!!!!
TheBioLover 2 months ago 4
>slag
>groans
>gooloom
whatthefuckamihearing.wma
Gilboron 2 months ago 22
Slag? I thought the dragon was named Smaug>?
g60racer 2 months ago 2
Am I the only person that finds the style sort of creepy?
midraw1 2 months ago
This would have been better if it wasn't The Hobbit. It's like someone else's story with Tolkien's characters' names. Interesting, none the less.
MRCAB 2 months ago
11:14 Wait, so this is the prequel to "Behind the Green Door"? ...Weird....
roninredshade 2 months ago
It's not The Hobbit but it's still a beautiful fairy story visually and symbolically (the object of the villain's greed was his downfall).
natezomby 2 months ago
What... the... fuck!
fasmgl 2 months ago
This is what happens when you let Americans have their way. What a bag of shite. I trust Pete will do a better job
mikemurphy155 2 months ago
@mikemurphy155 Yeah!
Except it's by Gene Deitch and Adolf Born, from Czechoslovakia.
scroob1ous 2 months ago
I love the art and the narrator. But the adaptation... oh my goodness.
sstacks1 2 months ago 4
This has been flagged as spam show
"Bilbo in Wonderland"
Varodunham92 2 months ago 2
i like it - Goloom and Slag - ten minutes is all you need, Peter Jackson will no doubt pad it out to 3-4hours!
adambastard 2 months ago 3
@adambastard He can pad it to 3 or 4 weeks and I would still watch it!
choc113 1 month ago
The '60s art style and the tenuous connection to the written story reminds me of the ludicrous Ballantine 1965 paperback LOTR covers. Tolkien's criticisms of them in "Letters" are hilarious and sad at the same time. Quick question for UK oldtimers - did "slag" have the same slang meaning in the '60s as it does now?
MajorSeventh 2 months ago
@MajorSeventh What did Tolkien say about the book covers?
doobiesmoke15 2 months ago
@doobiesmoke15 It's way too long to quote here with a 500 character limit, but I sent you a link.
MajorSeventh 2 months ago
@MajorSeventh Thanks a lot, those covers sound even worse than this cartoon! Emus and Lions in Middle Earth??????? WTF
doobiesmoke15 2 months ago
Almost as bad as anime.
grimlock12 2 months ago
Love the jewfro Bilbo's rocking
ElleRoni 2 months ago
Amazing, I didn´t know that Adolf Born did something like this.
cltekket 2 months ago
it's almost a shame they kept some of the original names, if this had absolutely nothing to do with The Hobbit (as opposed to having, say, its title and 3 character names right...) it would be perfect on its own.
Anyway, thumbs up if The Escapist brought you here? :D
srpilha 2 months ago
@srpilha couldn't agree more, it would have been much better as a separate story with a nod & wink to the Hobbit.
CusterFlux 2 months ago
@srpilha the escapist did bring me here but i hate thumb whores -1
XxChoosingxX 2 months ago
soooo sweet and adorable ... my whole childhood :) aawwwwwwww :) :>
TheFizdrimizdri 2 months ago
The art style is likeable... but otherwise this is awful
robertpatrick 2 months ago 3
I think I love this! It has a very special charm. :)
Anaithis62 2 months ago
I wonder what inspired the story, character changes?
CokeCheese 2 months ago 2
The art has a kind of scratchy charm, but aside from that it's terrible.
Mag7Music 2 months ago 4
HEH, Slag......
silentbob8201 2 months ago
awesome
gox123 2 months ago
How do you pronounce smaug? ....shall we say "s-more-g" or "sm-owe-g"
............screw it, we'll call him a slag
300warrior300 2 months ago 5
This video pronounces Gollum's name like it should be, Go-Loom, emphasis "loom", like a swallowing-noise, Not "gollem". Serkis and Peter Jackson fudged that one, having him cough "GOLLEM!" like he had asthma.
arknell 2 months ago
@arknell agreed
300warrior300 2 months ago
1:39, looks just like the dragon shrines in Skyrim. Wonder if this is where the inspiration came from.
ThunderJunkOC 2 months ago
Strangely enough the thing that bugs me most is the fact that they acknowledge it as The One Ring and that apparently Bilbo is the true ringbearer?
mimkyodar 2 months ago
These.. eh.. 'alterations' to the story are pretty much raping my brain. Won't be able to watch this.
Dwachak 2 months ago
Here's hoping Peter does better.
jwbraun1 2 months ago 3
Slag?
VTAH236 2 months ago 18
@VTAH236 lol
300warrior300 2 months ago
7:00 a cave full of gonzos?
tranceaddictallnight 2 months ago 7
Where's the dwarves?
koffski93 2 months ago
Bilbo + Mika Forever!
savagedetective2666 2 months ago
It's slideshow not animation.
LivingZombieJew 2 months ago 3
@LivingZombieJew technicly a slideshow is an animation..1 frame per second rather then 12
300warrior300 2 months ago
@LivingZombieJew powerpoint? lol
yurianne07 2 months ago
Wait - The Ring's True Bearer?
mimkyodar 2 months ago
I.. but... the.... Good effort, kudos on making money from it, but as an adaptation of the source material... I could get a stroke from watching this. That said, awesome that he made it that quickly and made that much money from it. It could have sucked a whole lot more.
mimkyodar 2 months ago 4
I like the way Gollum is pronounced in this
itworks92 2 months ago 3
So...Bilbo Baggins is the dragonborn?
Yes.
UberFacundia 2 months ago 40
As Seen On: The Mary Sue.
Tell me about it. xD
Elainiwen 2 months ago
Original story is SO much better.
Don't know why this guy felt he needed to add in all the standard fairy-tale cliches.
EmeraldView 2 months ago 4
@EmeraldView Don't know why Peter Jackson is gonna add all the action movie cliches. It just comes full circle.
Gernam12 1 month ago
Still better than Twilight.
ThunderCavalier 2 months ago 72
Ehhhhh couldnt hold my attention
mourningstar11 2 months ago
I was about to comment about the stupidity of adding a female character in the story and how a real adaptation would never make such a horrible mistake, but then I remembered that Peter Jackson is doing precisely this.
VirDiligo 2 months ago 2
@VirDiligo He is?
TheBioLover 2 months ago
@VirDiligo You mean legolas?
greengrendel 2 months ago
it's actually a really cool throwback to those old children's cartoons. Even if, you know, pretty much everything in it is completely wrong.
HowManyTimes234 2 months ago
Well...its about as accurate as any modern Hollywood adaptation XD
bloodrunsclear 2 months ago
Slag the monster Lizard????Grablins??? Gronns???The man who made this steaming pile of pile of rat dung should be publicly flogged!!!
doobiesmoke15 2 months ago
@doobiesmoke15
You forgot Galoo XD
bloodrunsclear 2 months ago
This made me hurt inside.
TKDLION 2 months ago 7
This is amazing. Quite a bit changed from the source, but entertaining all the same.
Ocarina654 2 months ago
AMAZING!
PuppetDungeon 2 months ago
Slag, how could you destroy the Golden City!
ZondervanSchnibble 2 months ago
certain changes are odd, like why Slag instead of Smaug?
Curttehmurt 2 months ago
Absolutely terrible, it resembles nothing from the Hobbit.
zDallasCowboys008z 2 months ago
@zDallasCowboys008z Remember, this was made 50 years ago.
warhawk613 2 months ago
Man, for a might lizard monster, Slag sure screams like a little girl 10:57
karmictoast 2 months ago
Okay, now there is no excuse to not animate National Lampoon's Bored of the Rings.
Cartoon Network????
Robot chicken??????
C'mon!
bozodeathgod 2 months ago 4
CANNON! CAAAANNNNNNNNNOOOOOONNNNNN
BouncingFerretFilms 2 months ago
This is kind of like looking through a collection of elaborate psychedelic album cover art while your crazy Auntie tries to tell you a story she read as a child and she is both remembering the details wrong and getting them confused with parts of other stories. And that is why this is AMAZING! Thank you so much for sharing it!
wolphintv 2 months ago 3
I keep expecting the "next image" beep, like those 35mm audiobooks in school...
WikusPrawn 2 months ago 4
Slag the dragon? C'mon!
FrostedPingu 1 week ago 2
The best part of this film: it was made in the era before Tolkien had taken over fantasy. It's really quite interesting to see people willing to totally change names of creatures/how they work without the natural limitations we have now that Tolkien's world is ingrained in our consciousness.
azore24 3 weeks ago 3
Did you come here because of Patrick Rothfuss? ^^
Tungil06 3 weeks ago 39
There, see! Why spend all that money making the Hobbit TWO films when one can tell the story perfectly well in about 12 minutes! (When I say "perfect" I am of course using the term imperfectly, and when I say "well" I actually mean horribly badly} This is a great example of the kind of unthinking rubbish that pervaded animation during the "Dark Ages" of 1960 to 1988. Even the monster names are wrong.
geniusrepairman1 3 weeks ago
See, the more I watch this, the more I actually respect it. Seeing as how it was never meant to be screened, and was only an Ashcan film to preserve the rights for future sale - it's actually half decent. Sure, as an all up adaptation it's terrible, but for what it was intended to do, it's not that bad.
mimkyodar 4 weeks ago
It may be a questionable take on the book, but damn is that some pretty art!
TotallyCharlie 1 month ago
The more I watch this, the more I get the feeling that the writer behind this short just took various fantasy tropes used by Tolkien that they told him about and just mixed them randomly. Besides the name change, the trolls seem to be an amalgam of the actual turned-to-stone trolls from the Hobbit and the ents from LOTR. And Gollum is like a crossover of Gollum and Shelob (why the hell is he bigger than Bilbo and looks so spiderry ?).
ZemplinTemplar 1 month ago
@ZemplinTemplar now actually, tolkien didnt state how big gollum was in the original version, so early art of the books often depicted him being larger and tolkien later clarified that gollum is supposed to be about as big as a hobbit. no comment on the spider part, though : P
oshronosaurus 1 month ago
I'm not surprised Tolkien was so affraid of letting anyone adapt his works to film. Back when he was still alive, most of the attempted adaptations were utter crap that didn't even try making heads or tails of the basics of his stories. This little movie is a really surreal find, all the more when I realized the animation was done by none other than Adolf Born. :-)) What are the odds of a 60s animated Hobbit made as an American-Czechoslovak production... :-D
ZemplinTemplar 1 month ago
Narration by British actor Arthur Treacher.
heine71 1 month ago
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slowdiving 1 month ago
7:54. Bumbles bounce
slowdiving 1 month ago
2:28.
ALL AT ONCE THEY WERE THERE
green727 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Haha, I had a lot of fun watching this.
ShiroiHyou 1 month ago
Thorin was a dwarf not a human and there was no princess, it's Smaug not Slag, where are the other dwarfs?, groans? it was trolls, Gooloom? it's Gollum, where are the goblins?
MrJohnffrey87 1 month ago
Hey, this was made in 1966. And in Communist country.
>Explanation to everything.
Martysek23 1 month ago
@Martysek23 It was made by Gene Deitch (creator of the Tom&Jerry cartoons)
koshiimarino 1 month ago
@koshiimarino but drawn by a czech illustrator Adolf Born. cheers.
koczek 1 month ago
This may seem like an odd thing to focus on in the sea of oddities, but why is Gandalf the Grey wearing blue?
AndrewTheEternal 1 month ago