Hobbit movie 1

[bunn]

I would thank huinare for the link to this, but I'm not sure if 'thank' is the right word. :-D

It's a  bizarrely contorted 1966 'movie' of The Hobbit.

Probably many of you have seen it, but I hadn't!   I kind of like it.  Kind of.  The graphics are quite nice, if not particularly Hobbity. But the plot is kind of appalling! :-D

Comments

[philmophlegm]

I fear that the charming animation and American-Postgate style narration is more than offset by the decision to call the dragon not Smaug but 'Slag'...

Does that word mean something else in the US or the former Czechoslovakia?

[bunn]

I'm guessing he was going for the 'left over remnants of volcanic action / smelting' sort of meaning, rather than the 'low sexual standards' one :-D

[chainmailmaiden]

I was thinking it was a bit Postgate in style too.

[inzilbeth_liz]

Isn't it also an amazing story behind its concept.

Pity it's so short really.

[bunn]

Yes, it's good enough that you *kind of* regret that he never got to do the full version. Kind of. I liked the troll-substitutes.

[huinare]

Appalling plot indeed. But it is interesting that the trolls seemed almost--Ent-like, come to think of it. I wonder if that was coincidental, or if the fellow had read the bit about trolls being made in mockery of Ents. Can't remember which book that was from, or if it was in print during this time..

[bunn]

That's in LOTR, which film maker says he had read - Treebeard says it to the hobbits when he's talking about creatures created in the Great Darkness.

It certainly looks like he was inspired by that idea, I think the Hobbit trolls come across as more stony...

[chainmailmaiden]

O_o

The story is rather WTF, but something about it made me keep watching to the end just to see what they'd do next! I did LOL at Slag & the Grablins/Grablings, though it made me wonder why they felt they needed to change the names. Also Gollum or should that be Golloom reminded me of some sort of cartoon bed bug or louse, he just needed more legs :-D