The best narration of the hobbit in my opinion, I had it on cassette tape when I was young along with the wish list and please keep off the dinosaur! Always helped me sleep and this one still does 😊
This old BBC version is great. Gandalf is a little more “sly” than how I read him in my head when reading the book. And several other characters are a bit off from how I’ve always known them from multiple readings of the book. But very entertaining and well produced.
This dramatisation is better than the straight readings of the book. The music is especially atmospheric. The Lord of the Rings dramatisation is better by far but was produced almost 20 years later
This version is the best and I don't get why some people don't like this version... Golem scared me so much as a kid but the rest made me so happy I listened every night as a kid! 🤣😍
I don't much care for Gandalf's voice. It's not deep enough. I'm afraid I only made it to the singing at the first meeting. I found it difficult to get into.
@@rebuildingnoseas Not for everyone. The nice thing about this version is that it keeps the "generic" narrow minded and judgmental listener away, leaving the magic for the rest of us, and magic it is.
I also feel this would have been better dramatised with the same cast who played out Lord OfThe Rings as well. They pronounced all the names correctly, Gandalf for example, not, Garndalve or Thorin, not, Torreen.
What about the knocking on the doors? especially Rivendell? Sounded like it was singing "one" when it opened. Not sure if it was actually "one" though, since it was sung in unison when the doors opened. It’s a bit like one of those sbusinesses where the bell or the bleep sounds as the door opens.
Gollum sounded like he was being played by a nonagenarian with no knowledge of the books what so ever, armed with a pair of rubber gloves and a pair of fishing waders filled with a mixture of ooze jelly and soap bubbles. It was really quite gross.
This was done by a small group of people with minimal bbc funding.Using archive sound effects from the bbc radiophonic workshop in the 1960s .What did you expect the...The superb Phill Dragash version ? @@jenlfpotter3870
Bit too many misophonia triggering squelching, crunching, eating, dying sound effects for my liking, especially Bilbo's terrible table manners eating toast and that thing which sounded like weetabix or something else very soft and mushy in Beorn's house and a lot of the pronunciations of names ticked me off, especially when I read and listened to the audio version a few years later, plus reading and listening to the Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion. Never the less, it was a very good unabridged recording for its time, I believe, it was recorded in 1968.
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The best narration of the hobbit in my opinion, I had it on cassette tape when I was young along with the wish list and please keep off the dinosaur! Always helped me sleep and this one still does 😊
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Gollum sounded weird yet fitting
This old BBC version is great.
Gandalf is a little more “sly” than how I read him in my head when reading the book. And several other characters are a bit off from how I’ve always known them from multiple readings of the book.
But very entertaining and well produced.
I used to listen to this on repeat as a child 😅
This Hobbit is one of the Best ive ever seen or heard Brilliant
Thanks
This dramatisation is better than the straight readings of the book. The music is especially atmospheric. The Lord of the Rings dramatisation is better by far but was produced almost 20 years later
I disagree. It feels far too rushed and interrupting, compared to reading the book directly.
ganDALF! is so damn queeny lmao
I had this on cassette!!
Same here.
I found it i had a old disc of this and i listened to it until those discs broke from overuse
Lovely to hear this again. Still impressive.
Yeah... The old BBC version is the best. I had the cassette tapes I played on long car trips to stay alert and pass the time.
This Is more than I expected.
Splendid
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3:25:07 this song has always been my favorite. 😊😌😴
Nice work dude thanks
This version is the best and I don't get why some people don't like this version...
Golem scared me so much as a kid but the rest made me so happy I listened every night as a kid! 🤣😍
brrrr
@@hestontheleperNH you are not the hobbit you were....
I don't much care for Gandalf's voice. It's not deep enough. I'm afraid I only made it to the singing at the first meeting. I found it difficult to get into.
@@rebuildingnoseas Not for everyone. The nice thing about this version is that it keeps the "generic" narrow minded and judgmental listener away, leaving the magic for the rest of us, and magic it is.
I also feel this would have been better dramatised with the same cast who played out Lord OfThe Rings as well. They pronounced all the names correctly, Gandalf for example, not, Garndalve or Thorin, not, Torreen.
Gollum sounds like he’s puking his lunch while he’s crapping his pants. And the eagles sound like Deleks from Dr. Who. 😂😂😂
just 1 more edit... it's Daleks.
Even the ravens. 🤣😂😁
What about the knocking on the doors? especially Rivendell? Sounded like it was singing "one" when it opened. Not sure if it was actually "one" though, since it was sung in unison when the doors opened. It’s a bit like one of those sbusinesses where the bell or the bleep sounds as the door opens.
Gollum sounded like he was being played by a nonagenarian with no knowledge of the books what so ever, armed with a pair of rubber gloves and a pair of fishing waders filled with a mixture of ooze jelly and soap bubbles. It was really quite gross.
This was done by a small group of people with minimal bbc funding.Using archive sound effects from the bbc radiophonic workshop in the 1960s .What did you expect the...The superb Phill Dragash version ? @@jenlfpotter3870
Gwahir the great eagle sounds more like a Daalek. Lol
This is great
What the BBC used to knock out.....
Bit too many misophonia triggering squelching, crunching, eating, dying sound effects for my liking, especially Bilbo's terrible table manners eating toast and that thing which sounded like weetabix or something else very soft and mushy in Beorn's house and a lot of the pronunciations of names ticked me off, especially when I read and listened to the audio version a few years later, plus reading and listening to the Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion. Never the less, it was a very good unabridged recording for its time, I believe, it was recorded in 1968.
I can't help but laugh constantly at this.
Can anyone tell me when this was recorded? I'm trying to find a cast list.
1968 I think.
I thought 1968. Wikipedia should have something about this recording if you look up The Hobit an unexpected journey.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(radio_series)
What the hell where they thinking in this awful version?
This is awful