The Hobbit

They're absolutely unhinged.

I highly recommend watching The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films that Ralph Bakshi made.

However, these films are fucking dark, like Gollum, like bites off a finger, you know, like they're they're still all of the dark moments from the Lord of the Rings.

They're just in this animated film that people back in the day were like, yeah, kids can watch that.

Ookie Spooky.

I watched the Hobbit animated movie.

Which one? The old one? The old one.

Hell yeah.

What are you talking about? I was thinking War Other.

Hear him.

He said The Hobbit.

I see.

This is from German-born American, they call him a... monologue monologist and comedian he's known for his rambling streams of consciousness dialogue they call stand-up tragedy jeremy khan i can see this being something he would do um he should he should sample this for his music for his videos he uh He is known for, he does voiceover work in cartoons.

He did the animated films of The Hobbit.

He does Gollum's voice in those.

So if you watch those, you know who he is.

So

Return of the King got a release through Rankin Bass Entertainment, the team that did The Hobbit, which if you haven't watched their version of The Hobbit, their Hobbit is fantastic.

I have seen that.

That thing is amazeballs and puts Peter Jackson to shame because it shows that you can actually do the story in 90 minutes and not 27 billion hours.

That's awesome.

Great pull, though.

Yeah, I think, you know, Peter Jackson's films have overshadowed the fact that we did get a full-blown adaptation or adaptations of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings completely separate in animated form.

And I think there's a lot more of the darkness in those, in a way.

Anyways, He randomly, not through me being connected through Christmas Countdown, his stuff, he's active on social media.

He does a lot of stuff talking about what it is to be a priest, but he also loves C.S. Lewis and The Hobbit and Narnia and all that stuff.

His content came across my feed.

I thought it was cool.

You saw that one? Oh, that was iconic, yeah.

Here we go, here's another one.

You voiced a character in the animated television adaption of The Hobbit in 1977.

77, okay.

Hobbits.

In November 1977, NBC aired an animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, which I have right here.

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Now, animation was produced by Topcraft.

The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

If the song sounds familiar, it might be because South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone parried it in the famous Lemmy Winks storyline.

In the 2002 episode, the death camp of tolerance, Lemmy Winks, the gerbil, embarks on an absurdly heroic journey through Mr. Slave's digestive system, accompanied by a musical narrator who sung closely, imitates the hobbit's name.

Lemmy Winks journeyed a distance far and fast To find his way out of a gay man's ass The road ahead is filled with danger and fright But push onward Lemmy Winks with all of your might

It's very complicated.

Rankin-Bass also did a version of The Hobbit, but by the time Mad Monster Party comes out in 1967, they were riding that Rudolph high.

They were really figuring out what they were going to be.

And what they were going to be was a little animation studio associated with this process, called Animagic.

They were one of the first American companies to outsource.

Now, of course, this took away jobs from American animators, but it also gave Japanese animators an opportunity to... show their stuff to an international audience, and some of these animators and artists would later become very big names.

I'm personally not a big anime fan, but I am familiar with the works of Hayao Miyazaki, who had a lot of early work on some of Rankin-Bass's later productions, such as The Hobbit and The Last Unicorn.

No way!

In the days of my youth, I was a hobbit.

Yeah, and also there's a lot more references to The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and a lot of Led Zeppelin songs.

Yeah, I've never actually read the, as a kid, I've never read the books, but did you guys ever watch the 1975-ish, I'm guessing, Hobbit cartoon? I had that on VHS, and it's like, oh yeah, it's all like, I think they use rotoscope.

Well, the Lord of the Rings one does.

Oh, right.

Okay, the Hobbit doesn't.

Yeah, it's sort of like more of a traditional animation thing.

Right.

I don't like the Lord of the Ring movie series, you guys, and I don't apologize.

Now, the original The Hobbit animated movie, that thing, that's solid rock S-tier filmmaking.

My name is Craig Delany.

Uh, I've worked with a whole literally tons of dry cement today.