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Post by John Green on Apr 5, 2021 15:33:15 GMT
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Post by RWels on Apr 5, 2021 15:46:54 GMT
Hmm... there already was a Soviet Hobbit (in Soviet Russia, ring finds YOU!), so not sure what to think... It's hard to believe, but it looks too elaborate to be fake... so I guess this is real??
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Post by John Wall on Apr 5, 2021 15:48:28 GMT
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Post by John Green on Apr 5, 2021 15:53:51 GMT
Hmm... there already was a Soviet Hobbit (in Soviet Russia, ring finds YOU!), so not sure what to think... It's hard to believe, but it looks too elaborate to be fake... so I guess this is real?? From the Guardian article: "In 1985, Leningrad Television aired its first version of Tolkien’s work, a low-budget adaptation of The Hobbit featuring ballet dancers from what is now the Mariinsky theatre and a moustachioed narrator standing in for Tolkien. The abridged production, titled The Fantastic Journey of Mister Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit, skips over the trolls and elves in an hour-long romp that was long believed to be the only finished Tolkien adaptation produced during the Soviet Union. According to World of Fantasy, a 1991 animated version of The Hobbit called The Treasure Under the Mountain was scrapped, leaving only six minutes of footage that is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hWwu17udnI&feature=youtu.be
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Post by John Green on Apr 5, 2021 16:03:05 GMT
One comment on the Hobbit snippet gives a translation of the opening song, to which someone replies:
"Thanks, that was much better than the English auto-translate, which apparently feels that the word "libido" is involved!".
In the circumstances, I suppose it could easily have been worse!
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Post by RWels on Apr 5, 2021 16:09:57 GMT
Hmm... there already was a Soviet Hobbit (in Soviet Russia, ring finds YOU!), so not sure what to think... It's hard to believe, but it looks too elaborate to be fake... so I guess this is real?? From the Guardian article: "In 1985, Leningrad Television aired its first version of Tolkien’s work, a low-budget adaptation of The Hobbit featuring ballet dancers from what is now the Mariinsky theatre and a moustachioed narrator standing in for Tolkien. The abridged production, titled The Fantastic Journey of Mister Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit, skips over the trolls and elves in an hour-long romp that was long believed to be the only finished Tolkien adaptation produced during the Soviet Union. According to World of Fantasy, a 1991 animated version of The Hobbit called The Treasure Under the Mountain was scrapped, leaving only six minutes of footage that is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hWwu17udnI&feature=youtu.beYes well I read it, but that Hobbit has long been known about. It was online with English subtitles (and even before that, with fake English subtitles about sex and drugs) for a long time until it was taken down. So that didn't really prove anything - in fact it made me wonder, if we knew about that, then why didn't we find out about this until now. So, yeah, I briefly suspected foul play at first. Like you said, early in April... Other versions include the Finnish partial LotR adaptation Hobitit and the 1966 contractual obligatory animated short. (Nerdist article lives up to its name by using jackson as a point of reference. Seems pointless to me. (Then again, perhaps I am a LotR snob, in that I read the books before Aragorn said "let's hunt some orc and then we go graba pizza, dudes".))
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Post by John Green on Apr 5, 2021 16:10:04 GMT
Come to think of it...it's not April 1st in the Russian calendar, is it?
(Only kidding).
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Post by RWels on Apr 5, 2021 16:13:54 GMT
Come to think of it...it's not April 1st in the Russian calendar, is it? (Only kidding). Ha! Well, until the Russian revolution, that was a real problem. The delay had gone up to ten days or more. A Russian Olympic team missed the games at one point, it seems! And the February revolution of 1917 in fact took place in March. That also means that by rights, the Hunt for the Red October should be called the Hunt for the Red November.
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Post by Marie Griffiths on Apr 5, 2021 17:12:04 GMT
I came here to post this article. BTW My ggggggrandfather was a gardener called Sam lived at Gypsey Green where Tolkien was to later live with his wife Edith and whose beautiful garden he sketched.
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Post by John Wall on Apr 5, 2021 17:52:28 GMT
To do it in an hour it must’ve been like the shortened version of the Dylan Thomas classic, “Under Condensed Milk Wood” 😇
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Post by RWels on Apr 5, 2021 19:01:40 GMT
To do it in an hour it must’ve been like the shortened version of the Dylan Thomas classic, “Under Condensed Milk Wood” 😇 It's two parts, so almost two hours for just The Fellowship of the Ring. Technically it's very fitting that they did it in two parts, since everyone knows that The lord of the rings consists of six "books" that were issued in three tomes. The Soviet Union must have dissolved along with the Fellowship...
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Post by tom rogers on Apr 5, 2021 19:24:51 GMT
Hmm... there already was a Soviet Hobbit (in Soviet Russia, ring finds YOU!), so not sure what to think... It's hard to believe, but it looks too elaborate to be fake... so I guess this is real?? "(in Soviet Russia, ring finds YOU!)" THAT made me laugh out loud! XD
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Post by John Green on Apr 5, 2021 20:11:09 GMT
The search is still on for the National Theatre of Brent's two-man version of LOTR...
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Post by John Green on Apr 6, 2021 15:03:50 GMT
To do it in an hour it must’ve been like the shortened version of the Dylan Thomas classic, “Under Condensed Milk Wood” 😇 Not a problem; It's easy enough to do Llareggub in half an hour.
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Post by richardwoods on Apr 6, 2021 16:56:43 GMT
I seem to remember the unfinished cartoon version was quite good. I remember watching it with a dreadful hangover around Xmas in the mid 80’s on Channel 4 (probably).
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