![]() But they present him as this slimy little frog-man that is more annoying than anything else. Gollum (aka Smeagol) was supposed to have been a Hobbit once. But even a nine-year old can tell when the melodies are almost identical from song to song.īut perhaps the worst image that stuck in my mind and screwed up my imagination reading the book is the way they presented Gollum. It comes in handy as I read it to my son. "O Tra-la-la-lally, down here in the valley" and "Far over the Misty Mountains cold." and all that. I must admit, I refer to the tunes in this movie when I come to the poetry in the book. Then there was the strange sight of goblins singing show-tunes as they dragged their drawf prisoners down under the Misty Mountains (and later under the trees with the wargs). Seeing the king of the wood-elves and hearing a bad German accent does not jibe with anything Tolkien had intended in writing this story. These buggers look like pixies from the worst fairy tales you've ever seen and King Thranduil was voiced by Otto Preminger. But it helped me visualize the world of Middle-Earth and better appreciate the story.īut looking back, I have many criticisms. ![]() The pictures were taken right from this awful version. But what else was there? In fact, up until Peter Jackson's films, the template for Gandalf that was seared onto my brain was John Huston's voice and the badly animated wizard that appeared in this film.Ī couple of years later, an illustrated version of the book - it was probably Houghlin-Mifflin - was published and I bought it. When I was about ten years old this was my only exposure to Tolkien. I mentioned in my last post that I was not thrilled with the Rankin/Bass one-hour cartoon version of "The Hobbit". ![]()
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