{"id":137488,"date":"2018-12-23T22:28:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T05:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/in-a-hole-in-the-ground-there-lived-a-hobbit-2.html"},"modified":"2018-12-23T22:28:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T05:28:28","slug":"in-a-hole-in-the-ground-there-lived-a-hobbit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/in-a-hole-in-the-ground-there-lived-a-hobbit-2.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;In a hole in the ground, there lived &#8230; a Hobbit.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the Rankin\/Bass production of <i>The Hobbit,<\/i> and can still sing most of the songs from it. I was unaware, though, of the Studio Ghibli connection. <\/p>\n<p>My only argument with this article is that it fails to mention some of the remarkable voice talent that went into this cartoon: Orson Bean as Bilbo, Hans Conried as Thorin, John Huston as Gandalf, Otto Preminger as the Elf King, Richard Boone as Smaug, as well as famous voice artists Paul Frees and Don Messick. It&#39;s really an all-star cast, for all the show&#39;s idiosyncrasies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2018\/12\/21\/rankin-basss-the-hobbit-showed-us-the-future-of-pop-culture\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Jp0tY5wyu_bd3dLSmdXJSe_qnAsHFF-26Y_4xEWe5mA9H9Xg2rIXhua20AReTYDOwO-XDTZraesDmkwrW7rfrI5ZJ3g3KlSGnkYsiEhzpVe5UrfyseJIWXQAojqV2r_GXq5TEzcvSTnvF_MMNTroFT4hwXLv5oTdzF5Fl78LGMJWmmrGgL-w=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2018\/12\/21\/rankin-basss-the-hobbit-showed-us-the-future-of-pop-culture\/'>Rankin\/Bass&rsquo;s The Hobbit Showed Us the Future of Pop Culture<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAs you&rsquo;ve probably heard, Amazon has announced that it&rsquo;s producing a show set in Middle-earth, the world created by J.R.R. Tolkien in his landmark novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. With &hellip;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/bXxehv5Lekc'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the Rankin\/Bass production of The Hobbit, and can still sing most of the songs from it. I was unaware, though, of the Studio Ghibli connection. My only argument with this article is that it fails to mention some of the remarkable voice talent that went into this cartoon: Orson Bean as Bilbo, Hans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/in-a-hole-in-the-ground-there-lived-a-hobbit-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;In a hole in the ground, there lived &#8230; a Hobbit.&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128913,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/21\/the-harried-hobbitses.html","url_meta":{"origin":137488,"position":0},"title":"The Harried &quot;Hobbit&quot;ses","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 21-Nov-15 12:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting video talking about how, essentially, the entire Hobbit trilogy was barely held together, plotting \/ writing-wise, due to lack of prep time for things like plotting and storyboarding and actually thinking about what the hell they were doing. 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It's sort of fascinating hearing the voices and rhythms Tolkien chose for his own creation. Tolkien Reads from The Hobbit in Rare\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132508,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/hobbitses.html","url_meta":{"origin":137488,"position":3},"title":"Hobbitses","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-17 10:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A lovely collection of illustrations from global editions of The Hobbit.One item of note: nobody drew Gollum looking anything like the twistd Hobbit-ish creature Tolkien described him as in Lord of the Rings. 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