Meeting Gollum 1 of 2

[KeBron479]

the most horrible nightmare i have ever had in my life was when i was younger and this version of Gollum snuck into my house and bit off my finger

[DeltaKilo3]

Is that... Littlefoot???

[jkfcdog]

Nah man, that's what baby redguards look like

[TheRyano4ever]

Is that what argonian babies look like?

[Visser0x]

@TheRyano4ever yes.... yes....

[kelthanius]

EGGGGGGS IT IS!

[LukaszPrzek]

its a frog 

[liquidtomatos]

ohohohoho eeeeeggsss (budbudbudbudbudbudbudbud) BIRD!

[TheHyena42]

This brings back sweet nightmares. Saw it when I was like four years old. The movie wasn't scary. But friggin' Gollum was.

[DarthRushy]

The only thing connecting Bilbo and Gollum(absolutely no Hobbit ancestry at all here) is.

Bilbo:Bless my soul!

Gollum:Bless us my Precious!!

[DarthRushy]

I think that they took Shagrat's comment of "a starved frog" too seriously. He certainly isn't related to Hobbits. Anyway, this Gollum was great, not so creepy. He was even better in the Return of the King cartoon.

[ScoTTishN1NJA]

haha..i hope the lightbulb in that sword is eco friendly xD

[Visser0x]

@ScoTTishN1NJA Its elvish. of course it is.

[Citzen92]

gollum mutated into mutant frog

[pspboy7]

Classic!

[JasonBrazen]

"If precious asks and IT doesn't answer. We EAT IT my precious!"

[Foulfangs]

@EbeAndZero Likewise,although I imagined that I was a super-powered gremlin-gollum thing.

[Foulfangs]

As a kid,this Gollum made me poop in my shorts,no joke,Return of the King version sucked. He is the ultimate version of creepy,sneaky-monster creeper riddle guy......my riddles sucked :(

[Foulfangs]

As a kid,this Gollum made me poop in my shorts,no joke,Return of the King version sucked

[SPARTAN9999999991]

@Foulfangs I watched this when I was like 4. The whole movie scarred the crap out of me, except the parts where Gandalf was around. I have it on videotape. No one even makes videotapes or VCRs anymore.

[Foulfangs]

@SPARTAN9999999991 I know,just think of all the classics people miss cause no one makes them this day and age.....Ever hear of the Santa story where he fights satan,or the devil,or some evil bad dude?Can't for the life of me remember.....not even the villain.....I don't think the elves liked him at first.

[SPARTAN9999999991]

@Foulfangs I have never heard of that. There's a small chance that I did but I would need more information about it to know. AAH! I just checked and someone threw out all my videotapes including the Hobbit. Even though they're not as old as the Hobbit i had things such as the original Pokemon, an episode of the orgianal You-Gi-Oh, a tape with a few episodes of Batman the Animated Series which was made in the early 90s, the old powerangers, Thomas the tank engine, Jurassic Park 3 and 2, ETC.

[NaiTaiDai]

Gollum, the goblins and even the elves got a monstery look to them in this film, didn't they?

[zvermilyer3]

@NaiTaiDai

Indeed, although it was only the Wood-elves and not all Elves; Elrond looked all right. Of course Gollum, the Goblins, and the other evil creatures are supposed to look monstrous, so the look worked.

[Kenji88Sama]

The acting is pretty random, much like they were just going for a 'scary' voice instead of actually thinking out the character, but in some respects this is really interesting.

If anything, it certainly shows a Gollum that's truly unhinged after centuries lived in isolation and corruption. Jackson's version was split, but visibly lucid in his malice.

[tlucentefl]

"Hello....what's this?"

[fireoutlaw23]

It cannot be seen It cannot be felt Sometimes is heard Always is smelt It lies between cracks And under waists And in good taste, it lacks Beans comes first It follows after Ends life Starts laughter The answer is farts A FART...

[schoolsout15]

@arkayen666123

i agree with you this cartoon was done the real way by tolkens friends rankin bass

[halloweenfan92]

gollum always looked like a dinosaur to me....

[kik805]

It's actually the 70s

[xiquiripat]

My brother and I watched this movie so damn much. 

[arkayen666123]

god i miss hand drawn cartoons someone needs to pimpslap everyone in hollywood and tell them to stop being lazy and draw the damn cartoons again and stop relying on computer animation im so goddamned sick of computer animation

[regulationjetta]

3:08 bitch, please!

[JetConvoy]

Does anyone else really like the way he said "Gollum, Gollum"

[moastytoasty54]

I wish he would've showed the end of this scene where Bilbo accidentally says "time", which is the answer to that last riddle, and Gollum just totally loses it because he wasn't really supposed to get it right.

[Hellzyead]

With this Gollum voice and a mixture of this frog-like Gollum and the Peter Lorre CGI Gollum (which I am not a fan of) of LOTR, Gollum would be a fantastic, creepy character

[Hellzyead]

This is how Gollum should have been! Andy Serkis did what he could do, but this Gollum is scary and croaky, not annoying and nasally. Andy Serkis' voice was just too high-pitched and didn't really seem menacing at all, more like a whiny crackhead. 

[CinnabonChan]

Didn't know Amy Winehouse liked riddles. 

[dinobublz]

gollum the tadpole

[bull068]

Lovecraft approves of this Gollum.

[lfgubrs]

This scene is gonna be awesome in Peter Jacksons The hobbit!

[pharze]

@lfgubrs How he already screwed it up in The Fellowship.

[lfgubrs]

@pharze You didnt like jacksons the lord of the rings ?

[CinnabonChan]

Bless us and splash us my precious!

[Igleh12]

lol, gollum: ,,is it juicy precioussss?'' lol love that scene

[Igleh12]

damn, gollum is supposed to be a hobbit, but he looks like a hobbit that crashed into a fish body!

[THMS808]

@Igleh12 He's been tainted by about 600 years of dark magic from the ring and has lived underground for about the same time. He's been corrupted by his circumstance. You know, all the orcs in the stories were once elves too? (It's the nature of Morgoth's power)

[Warriorcats64]

Ralph Bakshi did a better interpretation of Gollum,and Peter Woodthorpe was a better voice

[MichaelGaribaldi]

@Warriorcats64 You gotta be kidding! Bakshi made hobbit look and sound like a pussy, not to mention his version sucked! Ranklin Bass made him insane and scary. !!

[Warriorcats64]

@MichaelGaribaldi Anything is better than the kiddie fest that is Rankin-Bass

Bakshi did all the battles right,actually managed to get Legolas to do something [rather than be unacknoweldged or be a pretty boy like Orlando Bloom]

And gimme a break no hobbits sounded more like what you've just described than the Hobbits of Return of the King. Bilbo looks a grandma not a kindly chap like in Bakshi

And Gollum had personality,duality. He's just a monster here

Bakshi wins,Rankin Bas fails

[woollybully100]

@Warriorcats64 In the Hobbit, Gollum is just a monster its not until the Lord of the Rings that he gets backstory and the duality aspect. Also in Bakshi he's just a clown no menance and barely any hint of duality, he's just saying the lines with nothing behind them. I watch both versions all the time as kid and even as kid I just thought the Bakshi version was an insult and made me laugh, Brother Theodore's voice scared me and captured that wrenched quality perfectly.

[colliric]

I hope the 2012 movie does this scene well... should be great to see Freeman's bilbo take on Gollum.

[waxface0]

The film The Hobbit, was actually released in 1977

[Fuzzywuzzy1997]

Freaking love gollim. The best character on all of the movies and books.

[beenason623]

so fucking bad

[dujl]

Damn! Gollum's little island is exactly like I imagined it! fwfweufhewiufhweuifhweh

[SuziTheDestroyer]

I'm absolutely obsessed with Gollum, I love that he looks so animalistic. And Smaug's voice and personality is amazing, he's hilarious to me.

[oilyhakan]

i loved this un edit creepy with out being overly gorey wonderfull

[jjbacker11]

gallum looks like a frog :I

[YamiGraan07]

0:58 EPIC FORESHADOWING

[halafradrimx]

Stupid... Just give him the ring back! It'l spare alot of suffering!

[1Mafioso4]

this gollum is scarier than jackson's gollum

[mastercrowly]

@1Mafioso4 i think its mostly the fact that u see this gollum in a better situation here

[1Mafioso4]

@mastercrowly can you be more precise?

[mastercrowly]

@1Mafioso4 i mean like, here u see him in his own lair and u see him before he's all "they stole it from us". so idk i think the new gollum would've been cool if he was in this scene too. and i actually thought u said "better" not "scarier" so yeh.. but the new gollum is def uglier and i think this one is more creepy but the new gollum is more like.. "holy shit" kind of scary.

[1Mafioso4]

@mastercrowly ah, i see, well hopefully we'll get to see gollum again in the new hobbit movie their making

[mastercrowly]

@1Mafioso4 as far as ive read we will. andy serkis is in the cast so it can only mean one thing.. but hopefully he has a big role still.

[landioma]

@1Mafioso4 That's because GONE GONE GONE, SMEAGOL IS FREEEEE!

[smithtommi]

@1Mafioso4 yeah, after 14 years of this movie, this Gollum still gives me a small shiver down my back every time I see him, he gives a truly intimidating feeling to him, unlike Jackson's version who just made me laugh...

[mario5733]

@1Mafioso4

I know so upredictable, like he could smap at any moment

[MultiTomification]

@1Mafioso4 good joke

[MadocTheRuthless]

@1Mafioso4 Only about 1000 times scarier than Jackson's so-called Gollum!

[Thebassjunk]

@MadocTheRuthless Scary? He looks completely ridiculous...

[Visser0x]

@Thebassjunk if you saw that crawl out of a sewer you'd shit fine bricks.

[wikiporno]

fail gollum.

[blade55440]

Actually it was made in 1977.

[DrewBludd]

They must have sped his voice up, no?

[RoguishBlonde]

This scared the shit out of me when I was little!!

[Ahturos]

That is a real mightmare creature typical for possesion of a item tuched by the darkess of magic and influce you over 500 years. I feel more respect to Gollum here and that voice is just to fitting. My sisster thought when she read the books that Gollum was a bulky big monster of sort. I love RIDDLES!!

[pharze]

@Ahturos The Tolkien family has been on record saying that this version of Gollum was more in liking to J.R.R. picture of the creature than Jackson's. For the very reason you indicated.

[altarush]

Those cave formations look like goblins and there are bones of one lying about?

[pharze]

@altarush They are goblin bones from the ones that Gollum killed using the ring to eat.

[SomeFluffer64]

This movie was the first ever "The Lord of the Rings" I had ever seen. I knew nothing about it, and I thought Gollum was a frog-like being!

[altarush]

@SomeFluffer64 This is Japanese made cartoon. The Japanese have a monster cucumber frog creature that haunts caves and lakes. The bible says three frog-like demons in the last book.

[OhhFantastic]

He scared the shit out of me when I was little, but I could never look away. He still fascinated me.

[Ermundos]

Seriously, what ARE the chances of being caught in a cave deep in the earth and meeting a creature that just might be you great great great uncle a couple times removed?

[Chiquita1337]

Well... I like the movie gollum better since in the Lords of the ring movies, they say that gollum used to be a hobbit, and this gollum looks nothing like a hobbit.

[kethe]

This'll always be how I see Gollum.

[canadiancommie45541]

Great voice actig, but I found that golum looks to monsterous and inhuman

[YamiGraan07]

at least this gollum is less disturbing XP

[jiac1125]

battle of whit

[aoarecruiter]

Gollum reminds me of a crackhead in this movie.

[fireoutlaw23]

God, my older brother had this movie. i watched it when i was a kid. Fucking disturbing!! Way more than any scene in the peter jackson films. now we joke about it. "It...likes...RIDDLES?!?!"

[woollybully100]

@fireoutlaw23 my brother and I do the same thing, in fact we can probably do the entire film from memory in the correct voices too.

[lookielouE1705]

But this Bilbo is much better than Peter Jackson's Bilbo, or his Frodo for that matter.

[lookielouE1705]

This Gollum is rather too large, isn't he? Gollum started out as a Hobbit-like creature, so he should be the same size as a Hobbit -- this Gollum seems considerably larger than Bilbo.

[imtheonlysane1here]

@lookielouE1705

Gollum/Smeagol was another breed of hobbit, which possibly could be a bit larger than Bilbo's.

[Lightice1]

@lookielouE1705 Hobbits come in many sizes. Gollum was a descendant of the Stoors who were among the larger types of hobbits.

[leatherfaze03]

i pictured gollum more like this than and serkis' gollum

[DarthKain0]

Wow. This scene was only the smallest bit unnerving in the book, just because of the dread of knowing that should our small hero make a slip-up in his riddles, he would die. But THIS... good lord, the animation and voice acting make for quite the disturbing creature.

[dujl]

@DarthKain0 Indeed! This is massively disturbing, seriously....

[Nurdapurda]

Very nice voice acting, but dear God, what is that? Creepiest Halo Grunt I ever saw.

[RoadKill1313]

He looks like a dried frog from the sun, gone blind. I.. Like it.

[evantrude]

bilbo could of just cut gollum with his sword then put on the ring and then gollum would think he was trying to escape then run to the exit and bilbo could follow instead of a hard game of riddles

[mkri96]

gollum looks like a dinosaur with aids

[mdizzle999872]

Bilbo: Mind you I'm armed with an elvish blade

Gollum: Aw damn it!!

[meand6]

lol bilbo looks like an ewok who shaved his face and put on some clothes lol

[TheWobboo]

Ok it was ok until he started saying "Gollum, Gollum, Gollum" In a really flat tone, i mean atleast get him to put a lil gurgling in it

[ThunderLizardsRule]

I like the way he said his name, it makes him sound like a frog.

[dujl]

@TheWobboo Just because that's how you know doesn't mean that's the only way it should be done.

[mattiathekaiju]

gollum looks like a frog.

[Mesarphelous]

Brother Theodore for president

[Wii4a11]

Just imagine this place as the location for the movie "The Descent" XD

Gollum would scare those ladies worse than those other blind demons

[WatermelonRat]

I think this actually might be my favorite version of Gollum.

[philham423]

he's more than a heroine addict.

iz more like he smoked pot as a hobbit,

snorted crack as an outcast

and found heroine and insence in the mountain

[tryckfelsnisse]

*heroine

[tryckfelsnisse]

this gollum is on herion rather than speed in the other versions

[cvvemuri]

Gollum looks like a dazed drug addict.

Like a hobbit that disappeared into the mountains for centuries and became a creature of the deep. Which is what he is.

[Dawill44]

lol

[knowledgeable13]

Gollum looks very drowsy! LOL

[mattiathekaiju]

@knowledgeable13

3:39 bilbo said:oh fuck?

[DarthKain0]

@mattiathekaiju No, he said "Oh, bother," but I think the way you heard it would fit much better.

[ZACKnirvana]

i love this movie. gollum scared me when i was young

[YamiGraan07]

@ZACKnirvana i only saw peter jackson's lotr when i was a kid, so that gollum scared me. this gollum looks like part frog/part drug addict/part flying squirrel

[Ozarkeree]

@YamiGraan07 Yeah, it's definitely not very good for what he is, but I can't help but love the hell out of it on its own merits.

[PalpyGangsta]

Haha gollum looks like a frogman ;D

[mikedrummonds]

I'm somewhat drawn on the presentations of Gollum and Smaug the dragon in this film. The actual desighns dont come off well, Gollum looks like a frog and Smaug looks like a cat. I gotta say however that the voice acting is absolutely impecable on both counts.

[themovieguy364]

True. Although in a way the animation kinda works for them in a way too. We never really had a big description of Gollum in the book. He was just said to be this dark slimy creepy thing with big luminous eyes and large hands and feet. It built on our imagination as to what he looked like and everyone had their own ideas. As for Smaug I guess since it was Japanese animation they tried making him a little bit of an Asian dragon as well as European. But the voices are what REALLY brought them out.

[woollybully100]

@themovieguy364 fyi in the original german edition of the book, the illustrations show gollum as a giantic fat creature.

[themovieguy364]

@woollybully100

Hmm that's interesting.

[rampoo56]

@mikedrummonds I agree 100%. The movie doesnt exactly go along with the book. likr for example bilbo is suppost to find the ring going down the tunnel, not when he gets there. Also, when he meets smaug hes also suppost to go in and out twice, not it happening all at once.

[fraudcakes]

@mikedrummonds It's funny, when I was a kid I listened to the Hobbit on tape and 'frog' is exactly what I thought of when Gollum was described. I didn't know that Gollum was retroactively supposed to be a Hobbit mutated by powerful magic, only that he's dark, slimy, lived on an island in an underground lake and has large, lamp-like eyes and paddle-like feet. One of the orcs in LotR describes him as both spidery and frog-like too.

[67nairb]

@mikedrummonds Rankin-Bass Productions made Gollum look more like a mutant frog rather than a hobbit of the Stoorish breed.

[AdamMoss13]

hobbit movie next year...same day as the halo movie

[SWEsuger]

what?! They are making tha halo movie?! i heard they wasnt going to?!

[Fishboy]

3:30

this is the intro to HORSE the band's "Birdo"

[bonjovifan89]

lol I just watched this movie in school today.

[Lojackzer]

And to think Gollum was more curious than hungry at first....I wonder what the outcome would look like if he were starving!

[PinkBlastoise1234]

Bilbo T Baggins

[orgixvi3]

Bilbo Baggins? More like Dildo Baggins!

[MastMast122]

golum looks like frog

[firecad2006]

i always thought thats what he was, untell the new movies came out.

[Donteatacowman]

"Oh, I say!"

[colorconnection]

lol, i love that. only a hobbit would react that way when informed of such grave news. "My word, old bean! That's jolly bad form," might be another appropriate response.

[cubanscarface]

....and polite enough to ask for "half" a moment, rather than a "whole" one; for that would be too provocative, despite the fact you were just threatened to be eaten!

[KochuJang]

Best Gollum; Thanks, and RIP Brother Theodore.

[Carnage1235]

I like these cartoons by Bakin waaayyy more than the Bakhshi ones. And I just like the voice actor for Bilbo a lot for some reason.

[ignae]

This is a memorable moment from the book the hoobit

[c0mefly]

horse the band use a line from this in "Birdo". OH EGGS!

[nolank123456]

rofl ye dats why i was lookin it up.. at 3:32.

[DarthKidd10]

omg he used to look like a hobbit and he looks like a frog?!

[Scheisshund]

Frog-Man

[SleepingLeon]

nüüüüüüüüüüüüü

[LordOblivion59]

2:12 - 2:15

asthma attack ???

lololololol

[tofud00d]

the cartoon movies of the trilogy were actually pretty good in my opinion, but the real ones are wayyy better...

[Gormaoul]

... It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelled...

It lies behind stars - and under hills, and empty holeeeees... it fills...

It comes first and follows after... ends life... kills laughter...

The answer is dark... the dark....

[Schrodude]

Lol heard that before somewhere but it took the guy a few times to say it right

[ignae]

nice

[Cocarat206]

I know this Gollum wasn't true to the book, but I just love him...Not as much as the Andy Circus version, but MUCH better then the Bakshi version

[ivan55599]

gollum looks too much like frog

[wormdemorgoth]

i think he was meant to...sort of.

[taytonclait]

thanks for the post, such great blasts from my past, do you know how to get this on audiobook or is there an ost?

[blitzblotz]

What smells like eggs yet cannot be seen, it hits you in the face yet comes from behind

[taytonclait]

a cleveland steamer!

[Akxi0Cresent]

a poot?

[SageknightX]

lol he is crazy... gollum that is... i cant believe he used to be a person

[Poejoy]

I love this version of Gollum--the Andy Serkis one was really well done but this one is just freaking insane. When I saw this as a kid I was very disturbed. The music was great for this scene too.

[iceblue345]

lol when bilbo falls down into water

[iceblue345]

lol when bilbo falls down into water

[avatar723]

What? No mention here of the great Mad Genius BROTHER THEODORE, the voice of Gollum??? I saw his one man show in NYC in the early 80's when he was a favorite guest of Letterman , and he was truly scary. (Lots of posts on YT, check out "BrotherTheodore-3" for example). he was one of the most underrated and underused talents of all time. Thank Elrond for whoever did the casting for this-- they couldn't have found a better Gollum!

[grazatt]

I thin gollum was more sympathetic in the LOTR, but he is much scarier in this version! Still I love them both!

[AmieeShinigamiee]

gollum is a frog!!! BWAGAGAGAG FUGLY

[Lojackzer]

The best version of gollum ever! A scary example of what might happen to someone who possess the ring for 500 years.

[LadyTwenties]

Used to scare the life out of me when I was younger. The stuff of nightmares!

[kerorogunsu]

did he say "oh fuck!"?!?! i thot this was a kids show for cristes sake

[IAmNotJohnGalt]

No he says "oh bugger" or something similar.

[xVelveTx]

He says "Oh bother"

[woollybully100]

i love how they portrayed gollum as though he a dug addict in this movie

[jjziggpop]

he does look like a toad but its better than looking like a walking corpse