The Hobbit: Revisiting 1977’s Animated Film

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    The story of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is one of the most well-known fantasy adventure stories of the last century. As a precursor to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit tells the story of Bilbo Baggins, a well-respected hobbit from The Shire who is whisked off on an adventure by the wizard Gandalf. He travels with a company of 13 Dwarves across the lands of Middle-Earth, traversing mountains, forests, rivers, and wastelands until they ultimately come upon the former home of the Dwarves, Erebor, the Lonely Mountain. The mountain has been occupied by the fierce dragon Smaug for quite some time, but with Bilbo’s help the Dwarves intend on reclaiming their ancestral home.

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    The most famous adaptation of The Hobbit is the trilogy of films based on the novel, which were directed by Peter Jackson. However, there have been several other versions of the 1937 book that have found their way to screens before. In the United States, there was an animated television special released in 1977 that tried its hand at adapting Tolkien’s legendary story. It is one of a few different animated adaptations of Tolkien’s work that would be released throughout the years and, prior to Jackson’s films, it was the most well-known adaptation of The Hobbit.

    The film is a co-production between two animation studios. The first is the American animation studio Rankin/Bass, which is famous for its stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman films. Rankin/Bass co-founders Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass shared directing duties on this adaptation of The Hobbit. The other animation studio involved was the Japanese studio Topcraft. Before they eventually went bankrupt in 1985, Topcraft produced such films as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, after which a few of the studio’s animators and producers (Isao Takahata, Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki) went on to establish the now-legendary Studio Ghibli. The 1977 adaptation of The Hobbit, of course, was before all that. Amongst so many different versions of Middle-Earth that have existed on screen, ranging from Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings to the new Prime Video series The Rings of Power, here is how this animated TV special of The Hobbit holds up.