Product: The Hobbit [VHS] (1977)
Rating: 4.0
Love those eyebrows
Okay, so if you can get past Glenn Yarborough's quivery voice, the Orc songs are generally quite amusing. I love the backgrounds; they are as epic as any scenery in any other animation I have ever seen. The hobbits are well done, Rankin Bass has the best American animation when it comes to detail, and after watching this I can't picture a more perfect Gandalf.I don't know that I'd let kids watch this; Tolkein does scary stuff, and the Rankin Bass interpretations stop short of showing people getting hit or skewered, but the monsters are no less scary.Also: Check out Return of the King by these guys; it's even better.