Comments on: The Hobbit, animated http://bordersblog.com/scifi/2009/11/02/r-a-salvatore/1039/ Just another Bordersblog.com weblog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:07:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Saladin http://bordersblog.com/scifi/2009/11/02/r-a-salvatore/1039/comment-page-1/#comment-2191 Saladin Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:31:52 +0000 http://bordersblog.com/scifi/?p=1039#comment-2191 God, I loved that cartoon. Mr. Salvatore rightly points to its beautiful colors, but (being a kid when it came out in 1977) I also loved being scared sh*tless by the monsters. Peter Jackson's muddy-bloody orcs and big-budget ringwraiths were ok, I guess, but the RB bad guys were just awesome. Smaug as a massive, wizened catlike dragon. Madman performance artist Brother Theodore's absolutely horrifying Gollum (the definitive version, IMHO), and *this* scene (@ 0:30), which still gives me the willies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPkqjc23yqs God, I loved that cartoon. Mr. Salvatore rightly points to its beautiful colors, but (being a kid when it came out in 1977) I also loved being scared sh*tless by the monsters. Peter Jackson’s muddy-bloody orcs and big-budget ringwraiths were ok, I guess, but the RB bad guys were just awesome. Smaug as a massive, wizened catlike dragon. Madman performance artist Brother Theodore’s absolutely horrifying Gollum (the definitive version, IMHO), and *this* scene (@ 0:30), which still gives me the willies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPkqjc23yqs

]]> By: Shanna Swendson http://bordersblog.com/scifi/2009/11/02/r-a-salvatore/1039/comment-page-1/#comment-2174 Shanna Swendson Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:57:11 +0000 http://bordersblog.com/scifi/?p=1039#comment-2174 I think I was in fourth grade when that cartoon came out (wasn't it a TV production? My memory is hazy). It seems that either one of my teachers was really into Tolkien or they were doing some kind of marketing through schools because there was a lesson around that upcoming cartoon and our teacher read us an excerpt from the book. After watching the cartoon, I got the book from the school library and devoured it. I'd love to be able to say that this was what hooked me on fantasy, but at that time my reading tastes were very whim-driven and I devoured it all without grouping books into genres. It wasn't until sixth grade when I simultaneously got into The Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia that it clicked with me that I liked books of that type and should probably look for more books like that. I think I was in fourth grade when that cartoon came out (wasn’t it a TV production? My memory is hazy). It seems that either one of my teachers was really into Tolkien or they were doing some kind of marketing through schools because there was a lesson around that upcoming cartoon and our teacher read us an excerpt from the book. After watching the cartoon, I got the book from the school library and devoured it.

I’d love to be able to say that this was what hooked me on fantasy, but at that time my reading tastes were very whim-driven and I devoured it all without grouping books into genres. It wasn’t until sixth grade when I simultaneously got into The Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia that it clicked with me that I liked books of that type and should probably look for more books like that.

]]> By: Dane http://bordersblog.com/scifi/2009/11/02/r-a-salvatore/1039/comment-page-1/#comment-2171 Dane Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:01:18 +0000 http://bordersblog.com/scifi/?p=1039#comment-2171 The one thing I remember most about the animated Hobbit cartoon is that it forever tainted the Lord of the Rings movies for me. Sure, those movies are great and all, but my first visual look into Tolkien's world was from that Hobbit cartoon. I don't know if I'll be able to watch the upcoming live action version either. I think it all has to do with my childhood. I read, and saw, The Hobbit as a child so I link that together with a fond childhood memory. Completely agree with you re: sense of whimsy. As I get older, some of those memories fade, so I'm hanging on to the ones I remember with all my might. The one thing I remember most about the animated Hobbit cartoon is that it forever tainted the Lord of the Rings movies for me. Sure, those movies are great and all, but my first visual look into Tolkien’s world was from that Hobbit cartoon.

I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch the upcoming live action version either.

I think it all has to do with my childhood. I read, and saw, The Hobbit as a child so I link that together with a fond childhood memory. Completely agree with you re: sense of whimsy.

As I get older, some of those memories fade, so I’m hanging on to the ones I remember with all my might.

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