Okay, so... this is really silly.

[rubyelf]

This is a 1985 Russian version of "The Hobbit". Looks to be a bit low-budget, to say the least. Someone on YouTube has gone and broken it up into six parts and added "helpful" subtitles for us, although the person doing the subtitles obviously doesn't speak any more actual Russian than I do. ANYWAY

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[magenta_girl]

Those spiders are great! Dokken rules!!!!

[rubyelf]

Hehe... I love the spiders! And apparently they are very fond of Dokken.

[magenta_girl]

And not of Ratt. The spider voices remind me of the evil sounding fail reel voices from something Max watches on YouTube.

[pandafromisland]

hmmm interesting... never seen this when I was a child, in Russia I mean, it looks sooo old!
just wanted to add that the subtitles obviousely (for me) were made for fun and are not exactly what the actors say, their talks are pretty close to the book, word to word just in Russian, and no any profanity of course

[rubyelf]

Yeah... that's why I said whoever did the subtitles clearly does not actually speak any Russian. I assumed that what they were actually saying was probably basically from the book... and last I checked the book didn't include a bunch of "I fucked your mother" jokes. :)

[offski]

*points at "mighty" spiders* Bwahahahaha!!!

The subtitles are hilarious.

[rubyelf]

I thought this was definitely worth sharing. Mostly for the spiders. :)

Re: UPD

[rubyelf]

The humor of this translator is not subtle because he is just being silly and making bad jokes. :)

Re: Hello! :) I've never seen this russian version

[rubyelf]

Thank you for explaining this... it makes sense that it would be aimed at the 8-12 year old age group.

[silvan_lady]

I can deal with those sort of spiders LOL!

Gollum is odd though, I wonder why they thought he was green?

Re: It's a traditional of russian fairy tales

[silvan_lady]

Thank you - I didn't know that. :-)

[pandafromisland]

I think that green was a typical color for depicting any creature whose habitat are bogs, ditches, caves with puddles in darkness, etc. more relates to frogs and toads, lizards and that kind of water crawlers. This is why Gollum was in green color in Soviet Union.