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The 247th episode of the series overall, it premiered on Comedy Central in the United States on December 11, 2013. [1] The story centers upon Wendy Testaburger's attempts to raise awareness of media impact on body image, which leads to a crusade by rapper Kanye West to convince the world that his then-fiancée, Kim Kardashian, is not a hobbit. [2]
[1] While originally planned as an ambitious full-length adaptation, [3] the short film actually released was an "ashcan copy", [4] [5] created solely to fulfil a contractual obligation and retain the rights [3] and never intended for public exhibition. [5] At less than twelve minutes, it is also one of the shortest films based on Tolkien's ...
In the 1968 BBC Radio serialization of The Hobbit, Bilbo was played by Paul Daneman. [19] The 1969 parody Bored of the Rings [20] by "Harvard Lampoon" (i.e. its co-founders Douglas Kenney and Henry Beard) modifies the hobbit's name to "Dildo Bugger". [21] In the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated version of The Hobbit, Bilbo was voiced by Orson Bean.
[1] [6] The character Tauriel is a Silvan Elf, which means she is of a much lower order than the elves that had previously been seen in The Lord of the Rings film series, and holds a lower social status than characters like Arwen, Galadriel, Elrond, and Legolas. [1] A Woodland Elf, her name has been translated as "Forest Daughter." [7] [8] [9]
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 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.
Jackson was unsure if he should direct The Hobbit, so as to not compete with himself, but he did want to produce and write an adaptation of the book. He considered helming a Hobbit film and a Lord of the Rings prequel film in 2006, [127] before deciding to produce two films based on The Hobbit for a director of his choosing
Hobitit (The Hobbits) is a nine-part Finnish live action fantasy television miniseries directed by Timo Torikka, originally broadcast in 1993 on Yle TV1. [1]It is based on a six-hour play, The Lord of the Rings, put on by Ryhmäteatteri theatre company at the Suomenlinna Summer Theatre, with many of the same actors; the play was in turn an adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.