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noWizardme
Half-elven
Mar 14 2015, 2:22pm
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1966 "ashcan" film of the Hobbit
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I didn't know about this, or the concept of "ashcan" Publishing (Where a work is produced at minimum cost, and dIstributed as little as possible, for the sole purpose of retraining Legal rights). http://mentalfloss.com/...-history-ashcan-copy
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Mar 14 2015, 8:21pm
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I haven't seen this brought up in a while.
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I will admit, the short does make me wonder what the full-length version of Gene Dietch's Hobbit would have been like. I am a bit put off by Mr. Deitch's Tom & Jerry shorts (with very stiff animation and poor sound choices), but those might not be the best examples of his work.
"At the end of the journey, all men think that their youth was Arcadia..." - Phantom F. Harlock
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Lissuin
Valinor
Mar 15 2015, 2:35am
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Slag the Dragon. "Groans" turned into trees not stone. Gravlins. The Arkenstone of Dale. And Bilbo gets the girl, huh? Wow. Oh well. It was not to be. I did like the feisty princess, which would have been a cinematic novelty in 1966. The precursor of Nuclear Galadriel?
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Bombadil
Half-elven
Mar 15 2015, 12:54pm
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ODDEST Thing, Bom does vaguely..recall this version...
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But it jus' to weird to watch all the WAY though this TIME.. GAG, cough, snort...
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Riven Delve
Tol Eressea
Mar 17 2015, 2:12am
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Bilbo climbs the diamond vest of the dragon Slag (or is it that dog from Despicable Me?), who has clearly been stunned by a rogue disco ball, and steals the Arkenstone!! He, the spunky princess, Torn Oakenshield and That Other Guy, fashion a crossbow from discarded mining tools and/or children, and shoot the dragon in the heart with the heart (literally) of the mountain!! (How fortunate that Bilbo knew that the ring that found its way onto his finger from Galoom was the One Ring that could help him kill the dragon!!) And then, after rebuilding Dale, Bilbo and his best girl retire to his Hobbit-hole. Until the next plot Gandalf cooks up... They just don't make 'em like that anymore.
“Tollers,” Lewis said to Tolkien, “there is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.”
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Brethil
Half-elven
Mar 19 2015, 6:02pm
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I have no words.
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Riven Delve
Tol Eressea
Mar 19 2015, 6:06pm
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They could at least have given him a nice wig or something.
“Tollers,” Lewis said to Tolkien, “there is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.”
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