The Hobbit | |
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![]() Cover of 1991 USA video release by Warner Home Video | |
Genre | Fantasy |
Based on | The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien |
Written by | Romeo Muller |
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Theme music composer | Glenn Yarbrough |
Composer | Maury Laws |
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Original language | English |
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Running time | 78 minutes[a] |
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Budget | $3,000,000 |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | November 27, 1977 |
Related | |
The Return of the King | |
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The Hobbit is a 1977 American animated musical television special created by Rankin/Bass and animated by Topcraft. The film is an adaptation of the 1937 book of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien; it was first broadcast on NBC in the United States on Sunday, November 27, 1977. The teleplay won a Peabody Award; the film received a Christopher Award.
The New York Times found the film "curiously eclectic", but felt that whatever its failings, it warranted attention.[2] The Tolkien scholar Douglas A. Anderson called the adaptation "execrable";[3] the author Baird Searles called it an "abomination" and an attempt that had "failed miserably", regretting the quality of the animation and of the soundtrack, and the omission of key plot points.[4]
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