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Apr. 17th, 2011 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThe thing about rereading The Hobbit, which I haven't done in years and years, is that I had forgotten how much my internal vision of the book is influenced by the Rankin-Bass movie. The Lord of the Rings proper mostly sounds like the radio plays, but The Hobbit is all about the cartoon. I still know the tunes to all the songs from that movie, the characters and scenery look like that movie, and Gandalf still (and always) sounds like John Huston.
It's also due to watching that movie many many times as a small child that, in my head, elves are always slightly blue. Honestly, I'm always slightly surprised when I watch other things and the elves aren't blue. I realize that's actually a little crazy but, y'know, formative childhood influence. Elves are always slightly blue.
It's also due to watching that movie many many times as a small child that, in my head, elves are always slightly blue. Honestly, I'm always slightly surprised when I watch other things and the elves aren't blue. I realize that's actually a little crazy but, y'know, formative childhood influence. Elves are always slightly blue.
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Date: 2011-04-17 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-18 12:32 pm (UTC)~Carefully carefully with the plates, that's what bilbo baggins hates~
(Which may or may not be accurate to a scene from one of the Hobbit cartoons, but it's stuck in my head that way anyway).
I love The Hobbit. I should re-read it too. I remember scary spiders, big scary trolls, and fun cozy hobbitsezesz my precioussess