Tolkien in Japan
On the Rankin-Bass 'Hobbit' from the 1970s.
Welcome! This is a new Thursday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, and our topic today is The Hobbit (1977).
The film has a shaky reputation. Long before Jackson’s series, Rankin-Bass put this thing together for NBC: a television movie, very much abridged from the book. According to Arthur Rankin, the aim was to “captur…
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