The Hobbit 1966

Dînadan · **Posted:** Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:48 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnVL1Y2src
:shock:

Suddenly, any changes PJ makes in his version don't sound so bad

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:57 pm

I never watched this, but I have watched the1968 animated LOTR several times. There's also a RotK.

ForgottenLore · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:47 pm **Posts:** 491

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

I never watched this, but I have watched the1968 animated LOTR several times. There's also a RotK.

Do you mean the 1978 Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings or the 1977 Rankin/Bass The Hobbit (which was followed by the 1980 Rankin/Bass Return of the King)?

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:54 pm

Ah yes, Dinadan's title confused me as to the years, since I wasn't born then anyway.

Draugluin · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:59 pm

It's like the put the book through a shedder, burned half of the book, put it together again, and filled in the parts that didn't make any sense with other things that make less sense. Where did a princess come from? How the heck are the Misty Mountains now a circle? And how the heck is S-M-A-U-G pronounced Slag? There's to much to complain about this to write!

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:26 pm

Quote:

It's like the put the book through a shedder, burned half of the book, put it together again, and filled in the parts that didn't make any sense with other things that make less sense. Where did a princess come from? How the heck are the Misty Mountains now a circle? And how the heck is S-M-A-U-G pronounced Slag? There's to much to complain about this to write!

And some of you complain about PJ :rofl:

Draugluin · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:38 pm

Oh, I still complain about him. I just realize now that it could have been worse! (I already knew it could be worse, I saw the Bakshi one several years after watching RotK in theaters. But this is HORRIBLE!)

Jamros · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:39 pm

Oh gosh. This is bad. Really bad.

Draugluin · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:43 pm

Oh no, it's Gooloom! Run, Torin, the Groans are gaining on us! OH NO, IT'S SLAG!!!! I don't see how ANYONE could butcher the names that bad.

Dînadan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:20 pm

Draugluin wrote:

Oh no, it's Gooloom! Run, Torin, the Groans are gaining on us! OH NO, IT'S SLAG!!!! I don't see how ANYONE could butcher the names that bad.

Yeah, aparently it was made as a ploy to keep the film rights - the guy who made it owned the rights but they were about to run out, and to keep them he had to make a film based on TH, so he knocked together the *ahem*masterpiece*ahem* linked to in something like a month, retained the rights then resold them later on to make lots of money.

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

That was one of the funniest things ive seen. Is that really real? Or is it a joke?

Lord of Gondor · **Joined:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:30 pm **Posts:** 67

I did not just watch The Hobbit. I watched the perversion of a classic. This is why authers don't always like selling the rights to there work. It gave the Unexpected journey a totally predictable fairy-tale ending. Thank goodness such a horrible peice of adaption has been largely forgotten. A total 'Slag' heap. :boromir

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