This cartoon was great(unlike 'The Return of the King' that was also made by Rankin/Bass,that one sucked) I hope that the new films live up to this cartoon and the one of the best kids book ever written.
goblins and orcs are basically the same thing but goblins don't really work for anyone.. even Sauron... they just live in mountains and steall stuff from travelers and lurk around at night... they don't have armor or anything like that.. they are kinda like have their own tribes and stuff... but orcs are more organised and still stayed near mordor and the waste lands of gora`gora... but goblins do time to time work as trackers or back up for orcs and Uruks.
actually in the return of the king *cartoon version* Sam says " Orcs in the tower! Old Bilbo called them goblins" so they are the same thing ^.^ plus they look the same in it to.
because warner bros has the rights to it...since way back this animated movie is theirs. they also did a lotr return of the king animated. this was way before the lotr everyone knows.
even though it was sort of silly with the songs I still like the cartoon. I can't wait for the movie to come out. There is a trailer and it showed the dragon as a cgi dragon--very cool!
However the alot of the rest of the movie was horribly off base, inaccurate and just plain horrible.
Still, definitely worth watching if you're a tolkein fan, and good flick overall. I enjoyed it as a kid about a decade before I heard about lord of the rings.
true this movie doesn't have the excitement of Peter Jackson's movies, but this movie scared the SHIT out of me when I was a kid. I agree, Serkis cant hold a candle to this gollum, I watched this movie when I was 6 (Im 16 now) and I still remember distinctly parts of the gollum scene
you know nothing of lord of the rings. all you know of is some bs from a dumb little cartoon. theodore ruined gollum. you need to brush up on your LOTR knowledge because you obviously know very little about LOTR.
Sekis made Gollum comic relief. Theodore was Gollum. He was supposed to be terrifying, yet we were supposed to pity him at the same time. He was going to eat Bilbo, but he was some miserable creature that lived in a dark cave [he hated the dark, but he hated the light even more] all by himself, kept alive by the one thing that ruined his life.
you are an idiot. basing your opinions on a cool little cartoon from your childhood rather than real LOTR canon. Serkis IS gollum! this film ruined the character by making him into a frog! and his voice is all wrong! i just cant wait till Jackson makes his live action version! it will blow this bastardization outta the water!
AWESOME! Thanks for posting! I have one favor to ask. Can you pretty pretty please post the origional song sequences with the origional songs behind them? That right there is some of the greatest music ever made in my opinion and I can't find it anywhere!
Yeah, me too. Only on my tape when Thorin is explaining what they were doing in the *cough* GOBLIN'S *cough* cave thingy, all you can hear is "We were seek---- from the storm" It's been like that as long as I can remember. Does it say "...seeking shelter from the storm"?
Glad you all liked it. Yes, the drawings in this version of the Hobbit seem off to the modern eye. Since watching the Peter Jackson version we all have some sort of way in which we think the different races should be represented. I think the characters should be left to your own imagination. Tolkein gave us the ideas and its up to us to make thiem come to life. There isn't really a wrong or right answer to what they should look like.
I just re-read the book and the creatures are definately "goblins" and not "Orcs"... check it up if you don't believe me. Do you perhaps remeber the great goblin wars, the goblin king Bolg and the war of the four armies?? This is gettin too nerdy now so we'll agree to disagree :P
goblins and orcs are the same thing. Tolkien just called them different things. If you read all the books you'll often notice little differences in the way he names or describes things. It's just an issue you can run into when creating large works.
As far as i can remember, there have been Orks in the book the Hobbit and not "Goblins".And hunarf is right, the dwarfs are way to small.They are supposed to be bigger than hobbits.
Tolkien's orcs actually weren't goblins, though in the case of The Hobbit they were somewhat interchangeable. In The Hobbit they were usually called goblins, not orcs, though it happened once or twice.
this version was my introduction to "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings". it was very entertaining for a 1977 release. i would suggest for everyone to rent it.
heh, loved your ending line. It is so typical Bilbo :-)
happylmc 1 year ago
This cartoon was great(unlike 'The Return of the King' that was also made by Rankin/Bass,that one sucked) I hope that the new films live up to this cartoon and the one of the best kids book ever written.
tomaspeverell 1 year ago
Fantastic !!!
giusepperi 2 years ago
So does anyone know what's actually going to happen with the Hobbit movie?
I've heard its going to be backed up because MGM is going bankrupt.
ilovetomdelongeX10 2 years ago
personally i would rather be back in hjobiton :)
vidstrika22 2 years ago
goblins and orcs are basically the same thing but goblins don't really work for anyone.. even Sauron... they just live in mountains and steall stuff from travelers and lurk around at night... they don't have armor or anything like that.. they are kinda like have their own tribes and stuff... but orcs are more organised and still stayed near mordor and the waste lands of gora`gora... but goblins do time to time work as trackers or back up for orcs and Uruks.
Hockeycarnage 2 years ago
goblins are weaker and smaller
and can climb walls
like in the games
Sauronshit 2 years ago
actually in the return of the king *cartoon version* Sam says " Orcs in the tower! Old Bilbo called them goblins" so they are the same thing ^.^ plus they look the same in it to.
xpvrx 2 years ago
the music is just awesome, what is it?
artisanrox 2 years ago
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Who animated this? :)
ChibiBecca 2 years ago
Bilbo looks like some kind of bam beetle on Crack and heroin
Abusinator 2 years ago
Why do the trolls have two throats?
blackcatcosplayer398 2 years ago
They're orcs.
Always wondered that myself, though... really creepy.
BabyCharmander 2 years ago
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nice fag (fan made trailers suck)
4gotboutthatgrenade 2 years ago
i've seen all lotr cartoons but in hobbit dwarves like from the "Snow White" :D.But in middle-earth dwarves aren't like this...
ifsoil 2 years ago
lol!!! smaug looks like a fox. but this vid rocks! tolkien is the best!
ciaffoni2 2 years ago
This could get Nasty with all of em dwarves especially if Pamela anderson or Jeena J will star in it !
Realmasterorder 2 years ago
wow! Brilliant, I'll have to send this to my freinds Rachael and Elli, they're crazy about the hobbit!
brandybiboy 3 years ago
y....xq..en dibujitos???,...plop!!
4m0rdb4by 3 years ago
i loved this film, hey check out my Hobbit-like series and tell me what u think.
worldofspellfury 3 years ago
why warner bros??????
thefaceoftom 3 years ago
sorry - ignore that comment
thefaceoftom 3 years ago
because warner bros has the rights to it...since way back this animated movie is theirs. they also did a lotr return of the king animated. this was way before the lotr everyone knows.
dawnriku 3 years ago
where do you get the second backround music
Hessey96 3 years ago
Probably some random movie
UndeadLord3636 3 years ago
No this is actually A Hobbits Tale the animated one. :P
XxDreadweavexX 3 years ago
where do you get the second backround music
Hessey96 3 years ago
sounds like potc...the first trailor.
dawnriku 3 years ago
It's fanmade
shrimp741 2 years ago
Duh.
BoneDealer 2 years ago
very good looks like a real trailer to me :)
erlend246 4 years ago 2
i am Gandalf and GANDALF MEANS ME!!!!!!!!!!!
dadawg911 4 years ago
its a bit dissapointing..... smaug......has a cat head...
olliephilp 4 years ago
yes
ADVENTUREACTION 4 years ago
The dragons in cartoons always look better than CGI as well
Ilissill 4 years ago
I love it -- better than LOTR movies put together
Ilissill 4 years ago
good trailer
Haflor 4 years ago
thanks for telling me. Still it was good! If I'm not mistaken the Hobbit is to be the next movie--can't wait to see it.
retro38 4 years ago
Smaug has a beard, last time I checked dragons were cold blooded reptilians, who don't grow hair, or fur.
iMPERIALSUPPORT 4 years ago
Smaug is special =]
ShinosBugs 4 years ago
Fun! I loved that cartoon! Except for the elves (Blech!)
lotrrocksmysocks 4 years ago
Yeh what was with them Erond had a bloody beard!
iMPERIALSUPPORT 4 years ago
this movie bring me back
makosharkman 4 years ago
even though it was sort of silly with the songs I still like the cartoon. I can't wait for the movie to come out. There is a trailer and it showed the dragon as a cgi dragon--very cool!
retro38 4 years ago
it was fake, unfortunately
saccerzd 4 years ago
Seen it, love it :D
Also look the cartoon about lotr
krukur 5 years ago
These trolls look like Tolkien fans after being told New Line will get Bob Shaye to direct himself.
Disney need to get a petition from ring fans to buy the rights and hire PJ.
Amarventris 5 years ago
lemiwinkslem-lemi, leeemiwinks! gerbilking.
gruntwifey 5 years ago
I wonder...Why would they make a spider look like a mix between Charlotte and the old man from the Neverending Story?
ryanstiles 5 years ago
aww, I have it on dvd, its cute :)
BohemianGypsy 5 years ago
Admittedly the gollum scene was perfect.
However the alot of the rest of the movie was horribly off base, inaccurate and just plain horrible.
Still, definitely worth watching if you're a tolkein fan, and good flick overall. I enjoyed it as a kid about a decade before I heard about lord of the rings.
magus517 5 years ago
i member this... though i havent seen it since ocean city about 5 yrs ago
jeannaegirl 5 years ago
Hehe, nice. But i like that the orcs in this movie look totally different from the orc/goblins of the PJ movies. They're really interesting..
Caqui 5 years ago
i cant find this movie anywhere
Pangpangdang 5 years ago
i used to love this movie
Hughs 5 years ago
Me too! I thought the Gollum was the greatest! He was so creepy! I loved Smaug too!
opera21 5 years ago
Scary gollum. :hides under bed: I was 5 when I first saw this. This trailermabob is great. ^^
Marintha 5 years ago
lol goullum was creepy! i bought a doll for my son and hates it lol!
isaacallin 5 years ago
true this movie doesn't have the excitement of Peter Jackson's movies, but this movie scared the SHIT out of me when I was a kid. I agree, Serkis cant hold a candle to this gollum, I watched this movie when I was 6 (Im 16 now) and I still remember distinctly parts of the gollum scene
Vahanb 5 years ago
FRODOOOOO WITH THE NINE FINGERS! AND THE RING OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! WHERE THERE IS A WHIP THERE IS A WAY!
the music was awesome i remember it to this day.
Teabone3 5 years ago
But those two songs are from "the return of the king". But, yep, they're nice music.
chepepuy 4 years ago
It was my first start towards Lord of The Rings. I loved that movie so much, even if it did scare the shit outta me when I was younger. <3
Sesshyismine 5 years ago
you know nothing of lord of the rings. all you know of is some bs from a dumb little cartoon. theodore ruined gollum. you need to brush up on your LOTR knowledge because you obviously know very little about LOTR.
ganstaman56 5 years ago
You. Moron.
" you know nothing of lord of the rings"
You know nothing of anything.
The Hobbit came first. Nobody is talking about LOTR. We're talking about THE HOBBIT.
xxKairixx 5 years ago
Sekis made Gollum comic relief. Theodore was Gollum. He was supposed to be terrifying, yet we were supposed to pity him at the same time. He was going to eat Bilbo, but he was some miserable creature that lived in a dark cave [he hated the dark, but he hated the light even more] all by himself, kept alive by the one thing that ruined his life.
xxKairixx 5 years ago
you're an idiot. this was about as much gollum as that was smaug.
ganstaman56 5 years ago
no bullshit it came first! The Hobbit is still part of the LOTR, and this wasnt gollum at all.
ganstaman56 5 years ago
you are an idiot. basing your opinions on a cool little cartoon from your childhood rather than real LOTR canon. Serkis IS gollum! this film ruined the character by making him into a frog! and his voice is all wrong! i just cant wait till Jackson makes his live action version! it will blow this bastardization outta the water!
ganstaman56 5 years ago
Since when has Jackson followed LotR canon?
Anikom15 3 years ago
AWESOME! Thanks for posting! I have one favor to ask. Can you pretty pretty please post the origional song sequences with the origional songs behind them? That right there is some of the greatest music ever made in my opinion and I can't find it anywhere!
Honnis 5 years ago
I love the music, specially Glenn Yarbrough's "greatest adventure"
chepepuy 5 years ago
Yeah! That's one of the greatest songs ever written, in my opinion. Someone should really post that one and the rest of them.
Honnis 5 years ago
I still have the original VHS of that animated series!
Teabone3 5 years ago
O_O So do I!
Sesshyismine 5 years ago
Yeah, me too. Only on my tape when Thorin is explaining what they were doing in the *cough* GOBLIN'S *cough* cave thingy, all you can hear is "We were seek---- from the storm" It's been like that as long as I can remember. Does it say "...seeking shelter from the storm"?
xxKairixx 5 years ago
whooo scary=P
nordmo91 5 years ago
WTF
samsbasha 5 years ago
woooaaah dumbledore looks like the cartoon merlin xD
disguisedelf 5 years ago
That movie friggin' sucks and really needs a remake more than THE WIZARD OF OZ!
RoyalKidofOz 5 years ago
this my friends, is a perfect example of what MTV is doing to our youth.
ganstaman56 5 years ago
??? I don't watch MTV!
RoyalKidofOz 5 years ago
surprising. anyone who could say something like that about The Wizard Of Oz i'd expect to be a MTV drone.
ganstaman56 5 years ago
This movie is old but still a classic. worth picking up on DVD.
JadeElf 5 years ago
this is great
JoelRA22 5 years ago
Glad you all liked it. Yes, the drawings in this version of the Hobbit seem off to the modern eye. Since watching the Peter Jackson version we all have some sort of way in which we think the different races should be represented. I think the characters should be left to your own imagination. Tolkein gave us the ideas and its up to us to make thiem come to life. There isn't really a wrong or right answer to what they should look like.
herz19 5 years ago 2
Great point on the imagination thing but I really don't think that bilbo baggins should look like a redwood tree
Striker2684 5 years ago
I just re-read the book and the creatures are definately "goblins" and not "Orcs"... check it up if you don't believe me. Do you perhaps remeber the great goblin wars, the goblin king Bolg and the war of the four armies?? This is gettin too nerdy now so we'll agree to disagree :P
hiperjimjim 5 years ago
actually i think its the war of FIVE armies not four
Striker2684 5 years ago
goblins and orcs are the same thing. Tolkien just called them different things. If you read all the books you'll often notice little differences in the way he names or describes things. It's just an issue you can run into when creating large works.
outsyderz34 5 years ago
they are orcs they are just called goblins.
ganstaman56 5 years ago
the goblins ARE the orcs!
ganstaman56 5 years ago
See my above comment.
Does it really matter? Well, I guess it mattered to Tolkien.
floppyorange 5 years ago
Thanks for explaining that, I always thought orcs were just superior goblins, just like the wargs are larger and eviler wolves.
blackcatcosplayer398 2 years ago
Theyre not supposed to be orcs theyre supposed to be goblins!!
hiperjimjim 5 years ago
As far as i can remember, there have been Orks in the book the Hobbit and not "Goblins".And hunarf is right, the dwarfs are way to small.They are supposed to be bigger than hobbits.
HipHop1981 5 years ago
they are orcs just with a different name!
ganstaman56 5 years ago
thats stupid, the dragon has a catface and the orks could use some Slimfast.
HipHop1981 5 years ago
They're goblins I'll have you know
hiperjimjim 5 years ago
Don't you know they're both the same, noob? ;- )
I always thought Smaug looked like a cat in this movie as well. He even has whiskers.
floppyorange 5 years ago
what music is?
please put the name
lizzieFB 5 years ago
damn those dwarfs look like hobbits with down syndrome, wheres the muscle?
hunarf 5 years ago
omg the orcs look so stupid... -_-'
They are my favorite race in lotr universe...
Spieysgonnakickurass 5 years ago
they aren't orcs. they're goblins.
duhr. -_-'
xxKairixx 5 years ago
it's the same thing, noob
Spieysgonnakickurass 5 years ago
Tolkien's orcs actually weren't goblins, though in the case of The Hobbit they were somewhat interchangeable. In The Hobbit they were usually called goblins, not orcs, though it happened once or twice.
floppyorange 5 years ago
nope, there are orcs in the hobbit to... now go bother someone else, will ya?
Spieysgonnakickurass 5 years ago
That's what I just said. Did you even read my comment?
floppyorange 5 years ago
Waw i'd love to see that movie. i read the book but I never knew there was a movie of it. Does anyone have it uploaded yet?
Vidar666 5 years ago
Pretty good trailer, someone should upload this movie.
Tomx569 5 years ago
not bad, loved that movie. I liked the other LOTR movies too ^^
rks888888 5 years ago
this version was my introduction to "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings". it was very entertaining for a 1977 release. i would suggest for everyone to rent it.
theflea021 5 years ago