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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5761362" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Probably not. For what it was, it wasn't bad, and The Hobbit's origins as a children's story suited the animation well enough. My first copy of The Hobbit was an edition illustrated with the Rankin-Bass stills, so it still plays somewhat in my imagination when I think of that book.</p><p></p><p>I can't say that I think they did everything well, but despite the overly feline appearance of Smaug (at least IMO), they did a good job with the dragon. My biggest complaint is that its rushed and disjointed, but they were actually far more faithful to Tolkien's dialogue than PJ tends to be. PJ has a really bad habit of rewritting all the most famous lines in the story. Hopefully he learned his lesson somewhat. Things were even worse before he brought Christopher Lee on board the project and the big scary man went around the set quoting Tolkien verbatum and pointing at his tattered copy of the book while growling, "That is not in the story." PJ's original drafts were horrid (or even more horrid depending on your perspective).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 5761362, member: 4937"] Probably not. For what it was, it wasn't bad, and The Hobbit's origins as a children's story suited the animation well enough. My first copy of The Hobbit was an edition illustrated with the Rankin-Bass stills, so it still plays somewhat in my imagination when I think of that book. I can't say that I think they did everything well, but despite the overly feline appearance of Smaug (at least IMO), they did a good job with the dragon. My biggest complaint is that its rushed and disjointed, but they were actually far more faithful to Tolkien's dialogue than PJ tends to be. PJ has a really bad habit of rewritting all the most famous lines in the story. Hopefully he learned his lesson somewhat. Things were even worse before he brought Christopher Lee on board the project and the big scary man went around the set quoting Tolkien verbatum and pointing at his tattered copy of the book while growling, "That is not in the story." PJ's original drafts were horrid (or even more horrid depending on your perspective). [/QUOTE]
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