Honest Trailer | The Hobbit (1977)

[@enoughothis]

Don't you DARE throw shade at Tom Bombadil! He minds his own business and brings flowers to his hot wife. Dude's got his priorities right.

[@kholsinger]

If memory serves, even the Council of Elrond was like, "Yeah, Tom could've held onto the One Ring without being seduced by it. But then he would've gotten bored and forgot all about protecting it. DON'T GIVE IT TO HIM."

[@brodielarson9096]

and he can see through the magic of the One ring.

[@brodielarson9096]

@@kholsinger yup. Always nice to meet another "nerd of the rings."

[@shan3game]

@@kholsingeryeah. I was just rereading by audiobook and laughed out loud in my car when they were like “it’s so trivial to him that he would just think it’s useless and lose it”

[@seangarmire]

Bombadil is the only one holding the whole thing together.

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="166">2:46</a> "Now now, I'm already late because of bothering with you people." Gandalf the Passive-Aggressive. How that delivery managed to be so smooth and calm is beyond me.

[@RKroese]

...Gandalf said calmy.

[@justtocomment5848]

"Wizard is never late". I sense a contradiction.

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

@@justtocomment5848 Or maybe, that was the point when Gandalf decided he hates the idea of being late so much that he'll never admit to it again. 😆

[@GaryCurnowII]

This was the first Tolkien thing I was exposed to. I later read the books, and I still sincerely love this movie.

[@knittinkitten2595]

I had it on vhs when I was young and wore it out how much I watched it. Now I have it on my Google play. ❤❤

[@filidhdeklend893]

@@knittinkitten2595 Did the same thing to my Jr. High School Library's copy

[@Sylvia-t1f]

Same, the songs are so genuinely great too. The delivery of Roads Go Ever Ever On brings tears to my eyes still.

[@anthonyrygalski6424]

Genuinely they are fun to rewatch. The hobbit and return of the king i have somewhere around here on DVD.

[@slappyjones2136]

Same. I can recite the movie word for word. It got me into Tolkein, D&D, all sorts of fantasty films and videogames. And books. I read Narnia after seeing this.

[@WillKeaton]

Are we not gonna talk about how Smaug looks like a kitty cat in this version? It's not just me who sees it, right?

[@RKroese]

Miauw... Smaug the cat sees a mouse! 🐭 🐲

[@613aristocrat]

That's straight from the Book of Dragons. Dragons used to be cats. Or was it cats used to be dragons. I need to go reread it.

[@rmsgrey]

@@613aristocrat Cats used to be dragons, according to E. Nesbit, though she did suggest that it was possible a cat would become a dragon once more if suitably provoked...

[@davidgannon5388]

Always thought the same!

[@Dunybrook]

Never noticed that but that live action scene with Benedict did like he was doing an impression of a talking cat.

[@johndaily263]

Can’t wait for “Where there’s a whip, there’s a way”

[@kholsinger]

Only two things I remember from that movie were what you just said and, "Fro-doooo...of the nine fingers...and the ring of dooooom!"

[@mat9h1]

Love the Disco Orcs!

[@sartorius73]

I was probably 7-8 when I first watched this. I had no idea that this was based on, "where there's a will, there's a way". The whip version is much better, and still comes unbidden to my mind from time to time.

[@ipigs]

@@johndaily263 I can't believe they didn't mention it! I'm bummed.

[@DarrylBallegeer]

Disco singing orcs stuck in my brain. Don't forget 13 Birds.

[@isador21]

"how The Police broke up" LMAO

[@nathanc6204]

That was a humiliating kick in the crotch!

[@JeighNeither]

Yeah, that was a sick burn, mostly because it's 100% spot on.

[@bbworks159]

I don’t get this joke?

[@EdgarRoock]

@@bbworks159 Me neither

[@ethans9379]

@@bbworks159 It's about Sting

[@combatprinciplesmma]

The very fact you didn't figure out a way to reference Leonard nimoy's Bilbo baggins song for this is damn near criminal

[@HauntingBull]

THIS!!

[@logansfury]

oh man.... some things are better left forgotten...

[@tommyfrerking]

TUBA PLAYING INTENSIFIES

[@steakknives]

I wholeheartedly agree!

[@SilverScribe85]

I honestly liked THIS version better than Jackson's take, mainly because they kept the children's book feel with the animated adaptation

[@MarvNARK]

Don't be insulted

[@SilverScribe85]

@@MarvNARK Insulted? How?

[@andreykuzmin4317]

This version of Gandalf is the most book-accurate, because Gandalf IS jerkass.

[@myriadmediamusings]

Freaking Maiar folk always acting high and mighty.

[@BabaCorva]

Ohmygosh, this and The Last Unicorn are my entire childhood. I'm laughing with you but I think we can all agree this movie is actually perfect.

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

I remember the Last Unicorn! I later read the book, and it's good, too!

[@DeadDevilDying]

With you there, I take this over Peter Jackson's three movie cash grab, any day.

[@evilcowhead]

Yessssss

[@janeenschultz8502]

I like how those movies share a couple sound effects, like Sting and the unicorn's horn.

[@shannarobinson7550]

Love BOFUVEM

[@OrdinarilyBob]

And how the police broke up - "...We are no match for Sting!" BAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAhhahahahahahahahaha

[@claytonrios1]

This was how I was introduced to The Lord of the Rings. Honestly this is the kind of pacing that The Hobbit deserved all along. Though the Gamecube Hobbit game was pretty good too.

[@sakunaruful]

Me,too. This and Return of the King.

[@EliasuSan]

The one from Sierra?! 😮😍☺️

[@sakunaruful]

@@EliasuSan The Return of the King Rankin Bass film.

[@claytonrios1]

@@EliasuSan That's the game!

[@cincymutt]

Honestly, when I last rewatched it, it felt a little more rushed than I remembered at 78 minutes. Could've actually stood to be a little longer; not three 2+ hour movies longer, but maybe like 20 more minutes.

[@tenzhitihsien888]

Still my favourite film version of The Hobbit. And bonus points for having a proper dragon.

[@szabok1999]

A cat?

[@rolothomosky]

The thrush was of some ancient lineage that could still talk, Bilbo couldn't talk to most birds, just that one was special.

[@DrakeBarrow]

THANK YOU! I was going to resist typing that out, but now that someone else has done it, you have my axe! (IIRC it was one of the descendants of the messenger birds used by the dwarves, not many of them in the first place but they were _very_ special little creatures)

[@Frosty_tha_Snowman]

"More wrinkles than a Balrogs nuts" made me laugh way too much 😂😂😂

[@msbhaven]

Oh yes Rankin & Bass! I still have the VHS of this. Still love this. Rankin & Bass movies make up my childhood.

[@Lorddacenshadowind]

Same i don't even have a vhs player anymore but I have the movie and will never get rid of it

[@dreamguardian8320]

When I got the DVD version I saw they took out some sound effects and added a few new ones that were not necessary. It makes me like the VHS version more. Rankin Bass really did do some good movies over the years and their stop-motion animation was very good and is still miss today.

[@Dunybrook]

Somehow it captured the heart of the book the way Peter Jackson never did. No wonder they became Studio Ghibli.

[@justinklenk]

Facts. It was STEEPED in nostalgic style.

[@mesousagaby740]

Ironically, the live-action movies ALSO don't give the dwarves traits, and those were three nearly three-hour movies.

[@brodielarson9096]

instead Peter Jackson decided to have one get into a pointless love story that had no reason being in that series.

[@jbvader721]

@@brodielarson9096 That was a last minute studio mandated "love story" that was added in reshoots. Much to Evangeline Lily's dismay.

[@Caderynwolf]

@@brodielarson9096 peter jackson was brought in after the decisions were made, in order to fix things and finish the movies. He only wanted it to be 2 movies himself.

[@brodielarson9096]

@@Caderynwolf I never watched the appendices to the Hobbit movies, man. I'm just making an observation.

[@CsDeathshadow]

@@jbvader721 yeah so last minute they had to create the entire character of tauriel for it, since she's not the in the book and serves no purpose whatsoever

[@goldsearcher7606]

Peter Jackson would have done two Hobbit movies if WB didn’t interfere with him.

[@Disgruntled_Grunt]

In the Battle of Five Studios, nobody wins.

[@jbvader721]

​@@Disgruntled_Grunt"Why does it hurt so much?" "Because it was real."

[@BitingComics]

Even two is too much. The Hobbit was a short novel, a two hour movie could have covered it very well.

[@JR-zp3nw]

He should have told them no.

[@scorp77snake]

At least there's a fan edit that cuts out the romance and all the over the top sillyness

[@DJCMORE]

Now i get that south park joke 😂😂😂 damn it

[@Disgruntled_Grunt]

_Rom dom the battle's on,_ _Lemmiwinks, wikileeeaks_

[@martian8987]

And smiling friends

[@jbvader721]

All hail Lemmiwinks the Gerbil King

[@duncancurtis5108]

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

[@kmn2222]

Same thing happened to me few years back lol saw south park first before this

[@Celador]

They reused dragon animations from Hobbit in The Flight of Dragons. Never even realized it the same studio, let alone that they would become Ghibli. Wild.

[@Thegravedigger0]

What.

[@rolothomosky]

They peaked in Last Unicorn. That was almost all Ghibli animators.

[@Celador]

@@rolothomosky Suddenly, all the dots connected. Like now, I realize that animation in all of them is similar, but before it never occurred it's the same studio.

[@HydraSpectre1138]

The few animators that didn't go to Ghibli, they went to either making the Disney direct-to-video sequels, or GAINAX, the studio that made Evangelion.

[@JeffreyPiatt]

Topcraft went under some stayed with the old management to form Gibili, some formed what became Walt Disney Studios Japan who also animated Thundercats before Disney aquired Them, the rest formed the endlessly bankrupt Gainax

[@kholsinger]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="255">4:15</a> I loved how there was no setup for this scene. Also, Gandalf reveals at the end that he knows that Bilbo's ring is the One Ring, but does nothing about it because destiny and such.

[@williamcrowe2576]

And with all the subtlety of a comedian; "Your story, Bilbo, has the *ring* of truth. Yes, it *rings* true".

[@androidsychoshocker]

This is my favorite piece of Tolkien media. You won't see animation, music, or voice acting like this ever again. Beautiful stuff.

[@gametracker308]

"Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world."

[@newtpondskipper]

But sad or merry, I must leave it.

[@logansfury]

This was one of the best lines of the movie. Truly tragic that Thorin waited to learn this lesson on his deathbed. It was great to see him reconcile with Bilbo though.

[@rileynelson6624]

This cartoon is a fantasy classic and I don’t care what anyone says. It was my first film introduction to the story after I read the book in 4th grade.

[@Steelburgh]

The best Gollum. "Off to the back door!" This movie was a core childhood memory alongside Watership Down and Beastmaster.

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="237">3:57</a> Gollum's face looks like a warped version of Littlefoot from The Land Before Time. 🐱‍🐉

[@josephjohnson5415]

He looks like an evil ducky.

[@jimmymiller1313]

1000%

[@graciegj63]

I kinda think he looks like a gecko

[@jasondowns940]

This was my introduction to Tolkien, and I absolutely loved it!

[@DrewsOnFirst]

This is the best Gollum. Fight me.

[@JBartus913]

I was going to say that too. Serkis' version is garbage.

[@redclayscholar620]

I liked Serkis' Gollum but this one holds a special place in my heart.

[@gilbertsrival]

There are still times when someone asks me a question that I lean back and mutter, "Let us give us a chance, my precious." I love the Brother Theodore version.

[@rgraham9792]

I really liked Bashkis Gollum

[@stephenbellinger9583]

I hate to ruin this for everyone, but if you love Andy Serkis's Gollum, then NEVER watch Disney's The Black Cauldron, and NEVER listen to the voice and phrasing of John Byner's Gurgi...

[@ImpudentInfidel]

The battle in Hobbit 77 was still longer than it was in the book. Higher body count too.

[@charliegriffey7773]

Yea ironically Jacksons battle had the more accurate death count (it was only Fili, Kili, and Thorin who died in the book) even if the movie was a bloated disaster. Rankin and Bass decided to take a blowtorch to half the dwarves

[@sidwhiting665]

The 1977 Gollum was much creepier than the Andy Serkis version. And I really liked Elrond. For it's time, a good movie. Used to have it on a 3 record set with illustrations.

[@maia3420]

Bracing myself to watch my childhood getting roasted into oblivion.

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

Huh. Actually went pretty smooth, all things considered.

[@awkwardninja5738]

We need a 9 hour 3 movie trilogy on Tom Bombadil. All that time will really capture the essence of Tom Bombadil.

[@angelofmusic1992]

I grew up with this version and still prefer it over the Jackson trilogy. I can quote it word for word 😆

[@vwlssnvwls3262]

I would watch this every year when I was a kid. I loved this thing!!

[@russellvitranoiii3504]

Dude! Tombadil's songs were the only ones worth reading in the original LotR book! Do NOT disrespect Tom Bombadil,lol! Also, the parody title of this movie is hilariously clever!! 😂😂

[@jaykoops9502]

Can you say in your epic voice, "Where there's a whip, there's a way."

[@Disgruntled_Grunt]

Seconded

[@GalGiddyUP]

STUDIO 👏🏼 GHIBLI 👏🏼…everything I thought I knew is a lie! Holy F! Also, still down to have Oakenshield’s baby. 👅

[@Mcb0223]

YOU DID THE DISNEY COMMERCIAL!!!!! No one - NO ONE - ever remembers that Seven Dwarves Disney commercial. 😭😭😭😭

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

They don't make em like this anymore

[@LemurDreamer87]

I loved Smaug's design in this movie. Way more unique and interesting than just another dragon, imo.

[@triggeredgamer94]

Finally!! This has been long overdue!!!! Epic stuff

[@IknowIamkindagreat]

That was the BEST Gollum, someone needs to say it

[@hannibalwilmetcalf8363]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="335">05:35</a> "And how The Police broke up...." Good stuff 😂

[@wespapes2054]

Also ruined if you watched Smiling Friends. The whole time, you'll be thinking of Mip.

[@Vareon-r1h]

Tom Bombadil is currently teaching Gandalf how to use magic in Rings of Power, inevitably s3 will focus on it.

[@Lorddacenshadowind]

I love this movie and still listen to the songs. Will always be a classic in my heart and i will always defend it

[@danjoredd]

This movie was great. I prefer a too-short, but fun to watch version of The Hobbit over a too-long and boring version

[@maderaartstudios4738]

Now you have to make an Honest Trailer for Ralph Bakshi's LOTR

[@vice.nor.virtue]

That gag about how _The Police_ broke up is the first gag that's got me in ages! 😂😂

[@motherplayer]

This feature does meet more the idea of being a bedtime story in the eyes of Tolkien than the later take did trying to make it a grander tale than it needed to be.

[@tharqal2764]

One thing I really wonder about was how the Guillermo del Toro Hobbit movie would've been. I think he would've done an amazing job.

[@jbvader721]

@@tharqal2764 Oh, Guillermo. "Why does it hurt so much?"

[@motherplayer]

@@tharqal2764 Likewise. I could have seen him making some good magic with the crew.

[@AkinaHuskie]

Been watching this movie since I was like 3 years old. It's so funny and this video is hilarious. No mention of the glorious Vibrato in the music. Missed opportunity! 😂

[@arkant]

BEST Gollum. Also best music, especially Goblin Town and Attercop.

[@FlyingWithSpurts]

I haven't seen this in decades. Never put together that the animation studio also did The Last Unicorn but it comes across clearly in the faces and some of the gestures.

[@Thegravedigger0]

WHAT?

[@FlyingWithSpurts]

@@Thegravedigger0 I now can't unsee Rhuk's (Mommy Fortuna's cronie) movements with Gollums art at @3:50

[@andrewhaase1826]

Say: "I'm taking my balls and leaving." In your best Vincent Price impression.

[@OctacleEdits]

Do an Honest Trailer for Christmas Vacation, just in time for the holidays!

[@Deuteromis]

This movie and the Lord of the Rings one are part of my childhood nostalgia nightmares. But the soundtrack slaps harder than the Peter Jackson ones.

[@jbvader721]

Howard Shore's score was perfect for Lord of the Rings. But NOT for The Hobbit.

[@danjoredd]

Yeah, the Peter Jackson version of Misty Mountains Cold was great, but it lacked the haunting sound that the OG animation did. OG is more accurate to the book, too

[@Strider-bl5sq]

I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie! It's literally my favorite animated film ever and probably one of my favorite movies period. I even love the Ralph Bakshi 1978 LOTR which is terribly underrated and is actually pretty true to the Fellowship book.

[@NerdoftheRings]

Hahahaha! Oh my word, this is great.

[@Z-Strike026]

Please say, "We can be the good guys or the guys who save the world, but we cannot be both."

[@williambeckett6336]

This movie changed my life. My real introduction to fantasy itself.

[@brianbeeson]

I was 5 when I first saw this film and I legit had nightmares from those spiders. I vividly remember running out of the room and sitting in the hallway until that scene was over.

[@Memelord2020]

Make an Honest Trailer for Knuckles before Sonic the Hedgehog 3 releases

[@jdb2002]

I think they already did.

[@MonkeMan374-pj9xx]

"You think this is lame? Have you ever heard the Comedy of Darth Bombadil the Wise? He was a gigachad for putting on the Ring without being affected by Sauron, but nobody would have trusted him to hide it because he was too dopey to take it seriously. How ironic."

[@DavisShawShawkNAwe]

I LOVE this movie. Watched it every time i was hone sick from school.

[@CookiesAndSarcasm]

The same studio that made "The Last Unicorn", so now that's all I can see in the animation.

[@bryanzirkel304]

One of the best animated features ever.

[@mattonthewater]

This is the most underrated movie. The nostalgia is real.

[@dreamguardian8320]

I for one find this cartoon much better than the live action ones.

[@ACraftPainter]

Still waiting on a trailer for Krull

[@seanpatrickcain2]

Me too

[@BalbazaktheGreat]

Ah, the good version of the Hobbit.

[@HaleyRadiant]

DYING for an Agatha All Along honest trailer 🥺

[@Mcb0223]

SAAAAAAME

[@the_rebel_5363-v1s]

Say: "Moana 2 is just Disney's Skibidi Toilet"

[@FuzzyStripetail]

Sharing a grand adventure with an old man was spottier than the Battle of the Five Armies that was turned into the Morse code War of the Horse Girls.

[@ToddBlackToddTalk]

Please say, "Gandalf The Gray is addicted to adventures. You could say it's one of his worst Hobbits..."

[@justtocomment5848]

I personally think Rankin & Bash Hobbit is more faithful to the book than Jackson version. Both in mood and content. It is a childrens book and lot of the breezing through stuff actually happens. LIke Bilbo literally misses what happens in the battle of the five armies because he gets hit in the head with a rock at the strat of it from what I remember.

[@N33dlem0use]

At least now he can pronounce "Smaug"

[@newtpondskipper]

I love this movie. The voices are amazing, the artwork is beautiful and the songs are memorable. John Huston is the voice I hear when someone mentions Gandalf, definitely a core memory.

[@vustvaleo8068]

so basically "prototype Studio Ghibli".

[@collinmurr3207]

My introduction to Tolkien. Still nostalgic for it. Great voicework.

[@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051]

Now do an honest trailer for the Ralph Bakshi animated version

[@thomashauguel6811]

Cast all the shade you want, this was the introduction of Tolkien for many Gen Xers. It was a gift, and set many of us on the road to becoming Tolkien fans.

[@ahsuser]

The "Police" reference was A Deep Cut. I never comment, but you kids slayed me on that one. Well played.

[@BitingComics]

This was a great cartoon. Sure the arts dated and the budget low but it captured the book way, way better than the more recent trilogy.

[@legionaireb]

I can't believe you didn't address how this version of 'hates it forever!!!' was so much better.

[@PhilCrownz]

I'm shocked to know this was made by studio ghibili

[@manuelalbertoromero9528]

Pre-Ghibli.

[@ericdietz1795]

Topcraft. It's kind of complicated-- read the Wikipedia entry.

[@ChrisDreher]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="22">0:22</a> If you cut out the excessive guitar guy songs (Glenn Yarbrough), that you chop 15 minutes off the run time!

[@TojuRacing-440]

"How the Police broke up..." That was gold. Great video, thanks for the posting this. Great choice for an Honest Trailer. Added a sub!

[@Arawn505]

Please say with your epic voice: "True love waits in haunted attics. And true love lives on lollipops and crisps."

[@meemadd6397]

Calling Gandalf a mooching wizard for wanting to get in rotation for that Shire Pack is one of the better jokes you’ve had fr😂

[@bangslamwham88]

I used to watch this movie every now and then when I was a little kid whenever it was on TV, knowing absolutely nothing about Tolkien Middle Earth.

[@wboroted9013]

Greatest cartoon of the 70s. Soundtrack been running in my head for 45 pls years and counting!

[@Feverdream7777]

...don't you dare ruin my childhood

[@MikadoYuma]

This is one of the few times I can say "they don't make them like they used to" and be glad for it.

[@tomislavlukicloznica]

LoL, you just made me go find this and watch it. It was hilarious in pace and design, but it certainly had its charm. Thanks!

[@GUNUFofficial]

Now its time for the return of the king where they overuse the hell out of the vocal tracks despite never releasing thr soundtrack.

[@AndrewCheshire]

It made me so happy to hear Jon Bailey say, "Here come the Grannies!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@marysemerad6427]

This was my gate way drug into the Fandom. Get them hooked when they're young.

[@bch9124]

My elementary school brought the entire school into the cafeteria to watch this version of The Hobbit. It was positively life-changing for me, though I wonder how many children it was traumatizing to.

[@Peter-m6l7p]

THIS IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!

[@Pixis1]

For all its quirks, this is still a better adaptation than the unnecessarily long live action version. This was one of my favorite animated movies growing up. It was also my gateway drug into Tolkien fandom.