What's your opinion of the Rankin-Bass animated Hobbit?

Best fucking film version of the Hobbit we have (until the Fan-edits get better at least). I love Ian MacNeto, but John Huston somehow became my definitive version of Gandalf, and they've got such a magnificent Arthur Rackham inspired aesthetic.

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Love it. I consider it a valued part of my childhood and it still holds up beyond just nostalgia.

It's not perfect, but it's still really good. It manages to capture a peculiar quality of Tolkien that Jackson never could.

>>83541110

I like it. It's barely as true to Tolkien as Jackson's trilogy is, but it's still charming. I listen to the soundtrack every now and then. And sometimes when I go for a walk in the woods or somewhere I'm out of earshot from people, I'll sing The Greatest Adventure or Roads to myself.

Smaug's boasting was better in the animated movie then the newer movie. Also the music is pretty rad, still listen to it when I drawing or something.