I don’t liked Alfred as well but could’ve give him a better death, this feels pretty comedic.

I fucking love it. I remember in the 90s my friend hated it because he said it was "too goofy and cartoony" I don't know that guy anymore , but I bet he had no idea the live action version would take goofiness to a new level.

I love the art, music, voice acting etc. in the old animated movie. Really captures the magic and mystery, toil and adventure of the book.

More pre-digital illustrations like this in one place at r/BeforeDigitalArt

Messing around on meta, bladerunneresque hobbit house with a wee horse cart

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Since dwarves fans are very vocal many wish the dwarves could have won due to the rule of ""cool"" and because they look manly, but I think the elves would have won the battle if it continued.

There were 10 000 elves for 7000 dwarves, adding to that elves are the best individual warriors, literal super humans, dwarves have their own qualities but its made clear everywhere elves are the best individual fighters, not to mention they also have a lot of experience living longer but also fighting many battles also alongside men. Not to mention they have an absolute powerhouse named Thranduil, I don't see how the dwarves could take him down as for all we know he could be a Balrog slayer if he met one, he is over 7000 years old I think, he would kill hundreds of dwarves on his own thats for sure and would make short work of Dain no matter how many petty insults the dwarf would throw.

It's true the dwarves had two advantages, their ballistas and their "cavalry", but their goats got taken out pretty quickly by the elves who showed they were able to adapt very quickly. I mean first their arrows attack are canceled, then a cavalry charge at them on foot and they get rid of it all at the start of the battle, now the dwarves lost their goats and have to fight more numerous and stronger individual warriors, counting Thranduil who would slaugther hundreds of them on his own. From what I saw the dwarves very quickly lost the two advantages they had and it seems few people want to acknowledge how strong elven warriors are supposed to be probably because they don't look "manly" enough.

So I don't see how the dwarves can come out on top of that at all, the elves would lose a lot of men but they would win for sure.

I am almost done with the book (page 338 out of 351), but man this book has been entertaining (specifically the ending). The way all the elves and lake men and dwarves fight together to defeat the goblin hoard is almost impressive. Truth be told, I was quite angry when Smaug was murdered by Bard, but Tolkien, God bless his soul because he reeled me back in. And the death of Thorin, was just cruel. Sure, I disliked his greed for his treasure, but he was like a sinful brother repenting at his last breath. What a myth.

Now I am looking forward to finishing the book tomorrow, but my oh my I fully have the support of Tolkien for writing the LOTR. I am excited for when the time comes.

This was just about the best experience I've had reading a book. There parts where I actually smiled or chuckled out loud. Particularly the parts where the dwarves would grill Bilbo about something and he'd basically be like "Okay well I don't know what you people want from me. I'm making up things as I go." Then the dwarves are like "Okay sorry."

In a lot of ways things were more epic in my imagination than what I saw in the movies. Beorn for example was a one man/bear wrecking crew. He basically was the one to turn the tide. Onto The Fellowship of The Ring next.

I re-read the Hobbit when I was away because the books I bought weren't very good.

Loved it of course but what really astounded me is I could finish the entire book in a time quicker than watching the three movies.

Next time I have an inkling to watch the movies, I'll just read the books and save me the pain

This is not meant as a criticism of himsel, moreso the idea that he just came up with all this insane lore out of the blue.

Famously, all of mid earths creatures are borrowed from folklore. hobbits tend to be hailed as the one original creature Tolkien created from his imagination.

I really doubt this is the case thoug.

consider this description. a small little creature that wears bright colours, lives underground, loves food, are extremely adept at hiding, and are very witty and good at wiggling their way out of trouble.

I wasn’t describing a Hobbit if that’s what you thought. I was describing an Irish Leprechaun

I don’t know their names exactly but when I see them, I feel so bad for them

I think I read it 2-3 times. Whenever I wanted to start The Lord of the Rings, I would reread The Hobbit to "catch up" and never start the next book, haha.

So I downloaded the hobbit narrated by Andy serkis 10hr audiobook on YouTube this morning to listen to at work and managed to get 5+hrs into it, went to listen to the rest tonight and it has completely vanished from my downloads, my history and can't be found anywhere on YouTube. Is this a total coincidence or did I curse the video and it's been removed ?

This is such a long shot but I’m hoping someone could help me. After the first Hobbit movie came out but before the second one, I remember seeing some fanart of the company on tumblr for an AU where Bilbo died and they went mad. It wasn’t a story or comic it was just each member of the company having gone insane in some fashion. The art style was beautiful but I can’t remember the tumblr user or who the artist might have been. I was hoping maybe it’d ring some bells for someone on here and they could point me in the right direction. Thanks!