But I have a new suggestion for Rings fans who might want to shake things up, or put an all-ages-friendly spin on the tradition: 1977’s The Hobbit. Animated for Rankin/Bass by Topcraft ...

Rankin/Bass produced numerous classic holiday specials and some underrated animated movies, and these are their best ...

Appropriately, this was also the year that Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., adapted a 1937 fantasy novel into a 78-minute film called The Hobbit. Here's why I feel it's worth a watch now that it ...

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But a proper trilogy it isn’t. Produced for NBC, the 78 minute film of The Hobbit was directed by Arthur Rankin Jr and Jules Bass, who were the studio that made all of those Christmas specials ...

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Yes, most serious Tolkien-heads have seen the classic 1977 Rankin/Bass version of The Hobbit, but it’s in the beautiful strangeness of the 1980 Return of the King that the best and weirdest ...

two animated TV specials produced by Rankin/Bass (of which “The Hobbit” remains fairly well liked) and a dark and ominous big-screen feature from Ralph Bakshi (director of sci-fi psych-out ...