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Watch ‘The Hobbit’ (1977) in its entirety

01.16.2012
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Someone posted the entire 1977 Rankin/Bass animated—and musical—TV version of J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit on YouTube.

With a voice-over cast featuring Orson Bean as Bilbo Baggins, plus John Huston as Gandalf, Otto Preminger as the Elvenking and my friend, Brother Theodore doing the voice of Gollum. The legendary voice-over artist Paul Frees provides the voice of Bombur the troll.

Posted by Richard Metzger | 2 Comments

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Jan 16, 2012

RVL says:

That - and R&B’s Return of the King were great. Wonderful art design, with at the time nice animation (this was in American animation’s Dark Ages).
Paul Frees was in a lot of Rankin and Bass productions.

Jan 16, 2012

Gabriel says:

Ugh! Freaky ass cartoon. Saw this in the theater.

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