darchildre: children reading books in a field. (books are for adventure!)
Renfield ([personal profile] darchildre) wrote2011-04-17 08:02 am
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The 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.

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