The Hobbit - Directed by Jules BASS - Animated FIlm

[TheBeasts1000]

Just finished the book

[davidbowierocksilove]

omg my sister just farted .. lmaoo too much lentils

[Zalmoxes123]

I really can't decide whether this was as godawful as I thought it was going to be. Bizarre certainly! I'll say this though: that Gollum scared the B'Jesus out of me!!

[SladeFerguson]

Smeagle looks like the Lizard that Captain Kirk fought...

[lobo65ish]

Well done animated version of the story.

[RoseBudpony1]

the little men that where with Gandalf remind me of the 7 dwarfs! xD (or in this case 13)

...and whats with the burglar business??

[skiTEAskiing]

this is only making the jrr tolkien books seems like have been done by 3y old

[ScarytheIrishTerry]

9:00 The fuck?

[gojiraindahhood]

1:30 the thunder sounds like some person going "PEEEWWW!"

[hrrslnz]

I can see why they are making two parts to this movie.There's so much we gotta see to truly understand it,but the war of the five armies will be my favorite part!!!can't wait!!!

[TheShnoogle]

I can't watch Any more!! It's horrible SAVE MMMMMEEEEE!!!!!!!

[zizzlers77]

21:43 it puts the lotion on its skin!

[Dystopiansscreenname]

No witty comments. No shit talking. I seriously cannot fathom why this video has ten dislikes.

[30seconds2slipknot]

Racist film not all dwarves look like gimley

[MrFishman55]

@30seconds2slipknot SHUT YO MOUTH DWARFIE! ELF POWER! ELF POWER! ELF POWER!

[BlackSpittingCobra]

@MrFishman55 Elves Suck Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-Mênu GO DWARVES

[MordeaniisChaos]

Fucking love this movie. I had owned this for quite some time, but it wasn't till after I had read all of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings that I got around to watching this at a fairly young age (5th or 6th grade?) and totally adored it then. I've watched it a few times over the years and still adore it. I miss the way animated movies used to look, this is such a great looking, sounding film and does great justice to the Hobbit, which I'm re-reading now actually.

Lets hope that PJ can match it!

[Malocosa]

Many people put this cartoon down, but for me it's what inspired me to read Tolkien's work from this to the Silmarillion.

[TheMrgoku1985]

This movie is racist!

[LuigiLadz]

@slendersail not to mention gollum looks like a sloth. Mother of christ the guy is supposed to be slimy not fuzzy

[Wolfboy183]

they look like Podlings

[slendersail]

Blond Elves with dark skin and a German accent. OMG... So if you live in the forest you just have to dress like Robin Hood. And didn't anyone explain to Rankin/Bass that Elves are just immortal, taller humans? King Thingol was dark-haired, btw. He was called "Dark Elf" because he didn't go to Valinor and didn't see the Light of the Valar. He eventually became the butt of racist jokes from the Noldor ("dark elf in his caves").

[slendersail]

The backgrounds are spectacular. I'm not too keen on the characters.

[pencilart360]

Do bad I do not have the movies I would post them up

[TheAugment]

It's spoken by Leonard Nimoy known as Mr. Spock. =))

[RoninDave]

@TheAugment no it's not. It's John Huston

[campaigner111]

@TheAugment It's John Huston, not Nimoy. Where did you get that idea from?

[pencilart360]

It jumped it's not the full movie

[Znobishtucon]

This upload has some errors and deletions. Caveat emptor.

[Magraathea]

What is little foot doing in this movie?

[ForgeofSouls]

Awesome music, and very exciting!

[keithwarner]

I remember this. ‎It was broadcast on ABC (I think).

[hugobos1]

just wanna point out 2 things,

after watching, i found out that when Bilbo finds the ring ( 0:20:23 to 0:20:35 ) it is a sample for company flows song population control.

also as the comments say below the south park, lemmiwinks episode, you can hear exactly where they got the music for it from. haha. pretty interesting :P great animation.

[JJBThrillerMC]

this is the better of the two animated versions i remember. i used to watch this on the disney channel back when it was still showing CLASSIC animation.

[DungeonCrawlerBear]

this is true animation .....these days there is no such thing Rankin Bass always made the greats...... not this garbage that is on tv these days that they call animation that is no more than mindless drivel for 2 yr olds

[226086]

Instant nostalgia and emotion instantly rushes over feel every time I see this animated film of The Hobbit

[Faramirel]

What is the toad from wind in the willow doing here?

[BVargas78]

Trey Parker and Matt Stone were fans of this. Set this to the battle of the 5 armies music :)

Run Run the Battle's on! Wikileaks and Lemmiwinks!

Run Run the Battle's on! Wikileaks and Lemmiwinks!

GO LEMMIWINKS! STOP WIKILEAKS!

:)

[BVargas78]

Awesome, thanks for the upload!

[wordz4beatz]

This movie gives me such a warm and cosy feeling I just love watching it, a wonderful animation indeed.

[campaigner111]

Just watched this again on here and cried all over again... God bless J.R.R. Tolkien for writing such a moving and heartfelt story.

[Multi666777666]

I found this film a week ago on utube,and have watched it nine times to date.I think that says it all.

[campaigner111]

@Multi666 Well done! Indeed, I think over the past 20 years I have watched this on VHS about 100 times, and I bought the DVD of it a couple years ago, and watched that another 50 times at least. It's been in my heart since childhood, and along with reading the book itself 20 times or more, I think this just captures Tolkien's vision beautifully. I think he would be proud of this telling of his story. And no matter what Peter Jackson does with his film, THIS version will always be my favorite!

[fireandsilver]

Thnx

[kirika20]

wow, I never knew there was an old cartoon about the Hobbies, as a huge fan of Tolkien, I must watch this!

[campaigner111]

@kirika Yep, this cartoon was made in 1977, four years after Tolkien's death in 1973. It was about this same time around 1977, that J.R.R. Tolkien's son Christopher began to publish all of his father's previously unreleased works. Because of Christopher is why we now are able to read the Simarillion, Unfinished Tales,The History of Middle Earth, and The Children of Hurin.You probably know this, just mentioning it.

Hard to believe I first watched this when I was six years old, 34 years ago!!

[campaigner111]

@kirika20 Just in case you didn't know, there is also an animated version of The Lord of the Rings that was made by Ralph Bakshi in 1978, which is also posted here on Youtube. I don't think it is as good as this is, but it does have some moments which are very close to the books.

It's so wonderful to see someone else on here who is as excited about this animated version of The Hobbit as I am! I've been watching and loving this for over thirty years. It's a classic.

[campaigner111]

"There are moments which can change a person for all time. And I suddenly wondered if I would ever see my snug hobbit hole again...I wondered, if I actually WANTED to."

For an animated version of Tolkien's work, this really has some brilliant and moving dialogue. I think Tolkien would be proud of this.

[campaigner111]

"Child of the kindly west, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways, food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell."

"Farewell, Thorin."

Absolutely classic.

[campaigner111]

For a cartoon, this version actually tackles the adult themes of The Hobbit(greed, personal values, good vs. evil, temptation) very well.And to the filmmaker's credit,this version is actually a bit more grim than Tolkien's book is.

In the book, only Fili, Kili, and Thorin are killed in the Battle of Five Armies.In this version, seven of the dwarves are killed, leaving only six dwarf survivors.

I also think the melancholy version of "Roads Go Ever Ever on" after the battle is heartbreaking.

[campaigner111]

I don't know how other people feel, but as a grown man I still cry when I hear Glen Yarbrough's rendition of "Roads Go Ever Ever On", it is absolutey moving and inspiring. And I think the whole soundtrack to this is beautiful and I feel it really respects and captures Tolkien's vision.

[campaigner111]

Before Jackson's movies, this animated piece, along with Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings were the only movie versions of the books. I grew up with these and it is because of them that I became a dedicated Tolkien reader and student in my adult life!

Thank you Rankin and Bass! Thank you Ralph Bakshi! You made me the person I am today!

I believe that anyone who doesn't take the time to appreciate fantasy, and doesn't allow Middle Earth into their heart, is living an incomplete life!!

[campaigner111]

Apart from the fact that the cartoon doesn't include Beorn's house and a number of other details, I think it does a really good job as being a fairly faithful companion to the book.

I think John Huston and Orson Bean are THE PERFECT voices for Gandalf and Bilbo. And Richard Boone as Smaug's voice is simply epic.

I read the Hobbit about once a year, and whenever I do, I hear these voices as I read it.

[campaigner111]

Personally, I think that the dwarves in this are MUCH closer to the way Tolkien envisioned them as opposed to what I'm seeing in Jackson's production.

I thought Jackson did a fairly noble job with the Lord of the Rings all things considered(imagine if Disney had gotten ahold of it), but I am afraid he is butchering the Hobbit beyond repair. Seeing how the dwarves look in his movie doesn't encourage me much.

For me THIS will always be Thorin. Jackson's Thorin looks like a freakin' Klingon.

[campaigner111]

I'm 40 years old and this version of The Hobbit will ALWAYS be my favorite, no matter what Jackson does with his movie version.

Like Josh4president said, maybe it's the nostalgia and because it was my first childhood connection with Tolkien, but I will always be in love with this animated version, it moves me almost as much as the book does.

Simply classic animation, before the days of computer and digital effects, this really captures the heart of Middle Earth.

[campaigner111]

John Huston IS the voice of Gandalf!...Ian McKellan was good as Gandalf in the movies, but whenever I read The Hobbit, I hear John Huston's voice when I read Gandalf's dialogue.

They couldn't have picked a more epic voice for this role.

Even though it's animated, it's actually pretty faithful to Tolkien's vision and does follow the book pretty closely.

This was my first experience of Tolkien, I saw it when I was 6, and it's because of this movie that I became a Tolkien scholar.

[abbiedanielle1]

What is the difference between the book and the movie... Could someone please answer this is a homework assignment:)

[campaigner111]

@abbiedanielle1 The book has more detail of course. The cartoon leaves out some of the journey, such as when they stop at Beorn's house for shelter.

[mobus1603]

Great quality and happy to see the movie without watching it in 10-minute clips, but there just had to be subtitles and scenes edited here & there!

Goblins are so badass! Wonder why Tolkien changed their names to orcs.

[porterwake]

At least Rankin and Bass actually were true to Tokien's dialogue. Jackson butchered just about all of the dialogue from LOTR books. Dialogue was among the most thoughtful and most important creation of Tokien, and only Jackson could turn it all into mindless retarded dribble.

[campaigner111]

@porterwake Exactly. I absolutely LOVE that this version has word for word some of Tolkien's poems from the book. It was Tolkien's love for words and language that ultimately inspired him to begin writing about Middle Earth in the first place.

Not alot of people know that Tolkien's earliest writings of Middle Earth were done while he was in the trenches in WWI. Even at that young age in 1916 he was already thinking about Middle Earth's roots, and elves and elvish languages.

[popo5674]

Waaay better than the fellowship

[blchapman14]

Thank you for uploading.

[TsarIvanIV]

My dad sat me down and showed me this film before I could read. It's responsible for a good deal of who I am and how I see the world today.

[rusPiglets]

It's been hard growing up loving this animated movie. Anyone laughed straight at my face, when asked what cartoon I liked the most.

I still like it though.

[CareBear2157]

This movie still scares me and I'm 21. When he meets Gollum and he realizes the ring is missing....oh my God. :-O

[GDQT]

Mr Bilbo looks so ugly!

[MartenFerret]

This film never failed to fill me with wonder.

[32ecox]

@31:17 - @32:30 terrified me when I was a child.

[CougarHunter09]

I came here because of Lemmiwinks!

[karatechopkitten]

@CougarHunter09 Happy I'm not the only one.

[rjdemont]

scene missing at beginning but still awesome!

[Josh4president]

I don't care if it's the Nostalgia talking

This was and is awesome

[campaigner111]

@Josh4president I couldn't agree more! This will always be a classic. When I was 6 years old, my mother bought me the story book and record of this, and I listened to it over and over. That was 34 years ago! When I was about 12 years old, I read all the books for the first time, and I became an instant life-long Tolkien fan!

[GoblinXXX]

WHOA! Somebody performed a little unnecessary surgery on the TROLL scene at 9:00! That sucks ass.

[colemem0192]

love this movie it reminds me of when i watched it with my grandma when i was little