Tolkien in Japan

A still from The Hobbit

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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