The Hobbit.mp4

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[Tungil06]

Did you come here because of Patrick Rothfuss? ^^

[TheBioLover]

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*

[azore24]

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.

[geniusrepairman1]

@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]

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.

[mimkyodar]

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.

[TotallyCharlie]

It may be a questionable take on the book, but damn is that some pretty art!

[oshronosaurus]

@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

[ZemplinTemplar]

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]

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

[heine71]

Narration by British actor Arthur Treacher.