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| | TheOneRing.net™ Features NewsRoom The Hobbit Movie: Been There, Coming Back Again? |
 | | It seems inevitable that Tolkien's 'Hobbit' will be turned into a movie, or if not a feature length film, then some similar incarnation. | | | First published in England by George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. in 1937, the text of The Hobbit has undergone alterations, illustrations, translations and transformations from the first; although in text it is nearly the same as the original. | | | In true prequel fashion, foundations are laid for a future story, and histories connecting many Middle-earth tales percolate to the surface of 'The Hobbit'. |
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http://www.theonering.net/features/newsroom/files/100103_hobbitmovie.html
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| | The Hobbit |
| | The Hobbit animated film is about the wizard Gandalf, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, who did not like adventures, and thirteen dwarves going on a quest to The Lonely Mountain to reclaim the treasure which Smaug the dragon has stolen long ago. | | | Among other things that the reluctant Bilbo discovers on this amazing journey is an enchanted ring that turns its wearer invisible, and soon the hobbit transforms from a master bumbler into a master burglar. | | | And Bilbo, a mere hobbit of the west, who hated adventures is chosen by Gandalf the wizard to go on this dangerous adventure as a burglar. |
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| | The Hobbit - Animated - Anime |
| | The only Hobbit on film was created by Arthur Rankin, Jr., who later created the made-for-TV rendition of Return of the King. | | | Released in 1977, the animated Hobbit was the introduction for millions of people to the fantastic world of JRR Tolkein. | | | The story is quite accurate to the book, bringing Bilbo along on his journey, allowing him to grow and mature as he takes each step. |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art9847.asp
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| | The Hobbit (1977 movie) - definition of The Hobbit (1977 movie) in Encyclopedia |
| | All the Dwarves show up with Gandalf all at once in the film rather than coming in groups the day after Gandalf meets Bilbo and puts a mark on his door. | | | While the movie is fairly faithful to the story, it is at its core still a child-oriented musical adaptation, and therefore is by no means a perfect adaption of Tolkien's novel. | | | In the movie, Thorin, Bombur, and 5 other unnamed dwarfs are killed. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/The_Hobbit_(1977_movie)
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| | SFWatcher.com : Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Reviews and More |
| | The animated version is worth watching for young kids and lovers of the book, but the definitive film version of the Hobbit has yet to be made. | | | Contemporary viewers will also not be able to watch The Hobbit without drawing comparisons to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy, which only ads emphasis to the flaws. | | | Jackson intends now to return to Middle-Earth to give us his own version of The Hobbit, in the style of his LOTR movies. |
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http://www.sfwatcher.com/sfwatcher/read_review.asp?ID=82
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| | Encyclopedia: Ralph Bakshi |
| | In 1977, the film was released and received with great acclaim. | | | Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. | | | Bakshi's next project was to become his best known work after Fritz the Cat. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ralph-Bakshi
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| | The Hobbit (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The film was first broadcast on NBC in the United States, on November 27, 1977, and was tailored to children: the story was done in a very light-hearted style, and featured a lot of songs (most of which came from the book). | | | An LP with the soundtrack and dialog from the film was also released in 1977 — ironically, by Disney, through its Buena Vista Records label, although, by popular demand, an edited version, along with accompanying "storyteller read-alongs," was later issued for the Mouse Factory's Disneyland Records imprint. | | | Tolkien's The Hobbit was adapted into an animated television movie by Rankin/Bass Productions in 1977. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(1977_movie)
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| | The Hobbit (1977) (TV) |
| | theme song from 'hobbit' (if you never say hello...) | | | The one-on-one scenes between Bilbo and each of the other three are easily the best part of 'The Hobbit'. | | | I was enchanted by the movie, and I credit it with motivating me to read 'The Hobbit' and later 'The Lord of the Rings', thereby transforming me into a lifelong Tolkien fan (albeit not as die-hard as some, I admit). |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077687
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| | The Return of the King (1980) |
| | The Rankin-Bass team, following their own 1977 The Hobbit and Ralph Bakshi’s incomplete 1978 Lord of the Rings, returns to finish the job, sort of, with The Return of the King. | | | Unfortunately, this style works even less well here than in The Hobbit, which really is a children’s story. | | | The film hits the most critical plot points, but is clearly aimed at the younger set, with little to interest even the most avid adult Tolkien and/or animation buff. |
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http://www.decentfilms.com/sections/reviews/1989
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| | The Return of the King (1980 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The film was created by the same team which had worked on the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit. | | | The animated Return of the King is available on DVD from Warner Bros., both individually and as a "boxed trilogy" with the Rankin/Bass Hobbit and Bakshi's Lord of the Rings. | | | The Return of the King is an animated adaptation of the novel by J. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_King_(1980_movie)
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| | The Lord of the Rings (1978) |
| | (1937) was filmed as an animated tv movie The Hobbit (1977) by Rankin-Bass). | | | Yet, while the film may not be the filmed equivalent of the books, it is to Ralph Bakshi's credit that he opens the film up into something dramatic, instead of just operating a Tolkien travelogue. | | | The film was not well-received by Tolkien fans, but the Tolkien cult is such that one suspects nothing ever would be. |
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http://www.moria.co.nz/fantasy/lotr78.htm
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| | genre books listing - at zone-sf.com |
| | THE SODDIT by A.R.R.R. Roberts (parody of Tolkien's The Hobbit) Gollancz - £5.99 | | | THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW by Whitley Strieber (film novelisation) Gollancz - £6.99 | | | DOWNWARD TO THE EARTH by Robert Silverberg (reprint of 1977 novel) Gollancz - £6.99 |
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| | The Kingdom of Gwynedd - The Oldest Dagorhir battle group! |
| | In 1977, he ran ads on Maryland's underground radio station WGTB that said, "Anyone wanting to fight in Hobbit Wars with padded weapons call Bryan at the following number." Bryan became Aratar Anfinhir the Stormbringer. | | | Dagorhir holds the record for most canceled PM Magazine shoots - every time they would schedule to film us, "Storm Bringer" would pummel the event with rain or snow. | | | Unbeknownst to either the original Dagorhir Tribe or to Middle Earth, a madman named Falcon had moved West from Maryland to Cleveland, Ohio, in the early 1980's, taking with him his padded weapons and Dagorhir handbook. |
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http://www.kingdomofgwynedd.com/index.cfm?page=history.cfm
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| | Biography for Ian Holm |
| | Bean was the voice of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit (1977) (TV), while Holm played in the Peter Jackson trilogy. | | | Holm studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and spent 14 seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company (touring with Laurence Olivier in the 1957 production of "Titus Andronicus") before coming to the New York stage. | | | Bean also played Frodo in The Return of the King (1980) (TV); Holm played Frodo on BBC radio. |
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000453/bio
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