“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
The Hobbit is a 1977 American animated musical television special created by Rankin/Bass, a studio known for their holiday specials, and animated by Topcraft, a precursor to Studio Ghibli. The film is an adaptation of the 1937 book of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien, and was first broadcast on NBC in the United States on Sunday, November 27, 1977.
Wikipedia on the animated film
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction. The book is recognized as a classic in children’s literature, and is one of the best-selling books of all time with over 100 million copies sold.
Free .pdf download of the novel
@hotrod_jesus - you had to do it, didn’t you? You really want dragons in the damn hotel? Fine. You get the biggest and baddest of them all - Smaug:
“My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!”
Enjoy, you drunken bastard.
narrated by the legend John Huston no less… the guy who directed Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Maltese Falcon, two other great stories about greed…
@Arotrios @Hotrod_Jesus Goddammit. There’s little on this earth that can make me cry these days, but re-watching this for the first time since I was a little kid got my face all wet. Fuck y’all. I’m not crying, you’re crying.
