Watch The Very First (Still Unreleased) Animated Adaptation Of THE HOBBIT

Watch The Very First (Still Unreleased) Animated Adaptation Of THE HOBBIT

Back in 1966, animator Gene Deitch collaborated with Czech illustrator Adolf Born to create this 12 minute version of Tolkien's classic tale. It never saw the light of day, have a look and see if you can tell why..

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By MarkCassidy - Jan 09, 2012 07:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Fantasy
Source: Via io9

To say this heavily abridged version of the story takes a few liberties is an understatement. Obviously to tell the story in under 12 minutes requires a lot of stuff to be left out and brushed over, but there are other changes that are quite bizarre. The addition of a princess, no Dwarves, Trolls become "Groans", and most strangely Smaug the Dragon becomes SLAG the Dragon. Yes, Slag. I guess in this version he was a promiscuous East Londoner..



Despite the crazy changes I did sort of enjoy that, although I have no idea why!



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StuckInPanels
StuckInPanels - 1/9/2012, 7:29 AM
wow...could this any more of a WRONG version of the story. No dwarves at all...what a rip off.
thalidomide
thalidomide - 1/9/2012, 7:49 AM
not as old as Gusto
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 1/9/2012, 7:51 AM
HelaGood
HelaGood - 1/9/2012, 7:59 AM
thats just awful!!!!!!!!!!!!!
woodsy100
woodsy100 - 1/9/2012, 8:08 AM
Reminds me of 'Worker and Parasite'
DudeGuy
DudeGuy - 1/9/2012, 8:23 AM
Holy Shit Batman! that was bad!
spidey1994
spidey1994 - 1/9/2012, 8:25 AM
@grif, Smaug will only be in Part 2!
loki668
loki668 - 1/9/2012, 9:44 AM
Holy shit! That was awful!

Lord Loki has spoken
ScionStorm
ScionStorm - 1/9/2012, 10:06 AM
I can see why this never saw the light of day. This. Is. Terrible.
ScionStorm
ScionStorm - 1/9/2012, 10:12 AM
This to me is about on par with Immortals in ruining an epic story. Immortals gets one notch up mainly for the sexy and choreography.
Fogs
Fogs - 1/9/2012, 10:22 AM
OMG gotta go to the bathr..... bleeeeeargh!!!

too late.
SpideyQuad
SpideyQuad - 1/9/2012, 1:22 PM
Wow, this animation makes Rocky and Bullwinkle look like art!

What is it with following the source material?
headlopper
headlopper - 1/9/2012, 2:20 PM
'Suck' doesn't begin to describe this crap.
CBArtist
CBArtist - 1/9/2012, 2:33 PM
Looks just like what Marvel did back in the mid 60's with turning comics into cartoons. Nowadays they call 'em motion comics, and the kiddies thinks it's neeto.
stumbleMaster57
stumbleMaster57 - 1/9/2012, 6:39 PM
the animation reminds me of yellow submarine.
Sinitsky
Sinitsky - 1/9/2012, 9:13 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hWwu17udnI&feature=related

i think that was a much better effort.
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