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The Hobbit is a 1977 American animated musical television special created by Rankin/Bass and animated by Topcraft.The film is an adaptation of the 1937 book of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien; it was first broadcast on NBC in the United States on Sunday, November 27, 1977.
In the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated television musical, Bard was voiced by John Stephenson. [11] In Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film series, Welsh actor Luke Evans portrays Bard, appearing in the latter two films of the trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). Evans was cast in June 2011. [12]
The Hobbit calls him an elf-friend rather than an elf, one "who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors." [T 9] The Elvenking, king of the Mirkwood Elves. He held the dwarves captive. They were eventually freed by Bilbo. [T 10] (In The Hobbit he is only called "the Elvenking"; his name "Thranduil" is given in The Lord of the Rings ...
Rankin/Bass Productions was an American production company, best known for its animated seasonal television specials. Television series and films pre-1974 are owned by NBCUniversal through DreamWorks Animation and post-September 1974 are owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment.
The 1967 short animated film The Hobbit was the first film production of The Hobbit.It was directed by Gene Deitch in Czechoslovakia.American film producer William L. Snyder obtained the rights to the novel from the Tolkien estate very cheaply while it was still largely unknown, with the proviso that he produce a "full-colour film" by 30 June 1966, and immediately set about producing a feature ...
The first commercial adaptation of Tolkien's works was the Rankin/Bass animated television special The Hobbit (1977). The first theatrical adaptation was Ralph Bakshi's animated film The Lord of the Rings (1978). This was followed by the Rankin/Bass animated television film The Return of the King (1980). The first live-action adaptations were ...
Elrond in Ralph Bakshi's animated version of The Lord of the Rings. Cyril Ritchard voiced Elrond in the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated film adaptation of The Hobbit. [9] In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Elrond was voiced by André Morell. [10]
Balin featured in the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated film of The Hobbit; in Peter Jackson's 2012–2014 live-action film series, where he is portrayed by Ken Stott as reluctant to search for lost gold and sympathetic to Bilbo; and in the 2003 video game adaptation where he is voiced by Victor Raider-Wexler.