Hobbit; or, There and Back Again | Adaptations
At least six radio and cassette versions of The Hobbit have been produced, one of them a five hour full-cast version by Mind's Eye Radio Theater, another an eight-cassette, eleven hour and fifteen minutes unabridged reading from Recorded Books, as well as puppet plays and children's theater productions. In 1977 Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass directed a full-length, animated film version for television featuring the voices of Orson Bean (Bilbo), John Huston (Gandalf), and Richard Boone (Smaug). The Rankin-Bass Hobbit is an adequate piece of work, but many find it overly...
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