Editing The Hobbit (section)

== Rankin Bass' 1977 Saturday-Morning Cartoon==
This was faithful in a lot of ways to the original book in structure and perhaps tone... for better or worse. 

Like the original book the Rankin/Bass version is aimed at children and you could almost call it a musical with songs adapted from the poems within the book. Smaug is decent in this adaption, being a lot more smug and witty then the Jackson version (which we'll have to get to), even if his cat like face is a bit derpy and he doesn't have Benedict Cumberbatch's voice.

Unfortunately the Hobbit is just a little too much book for just one movie with little over an hour's worth of running time, and much was cut to make the story fit (AKA the opposite problem of the Peter Jackson trilogy detailed below).

(After [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s hash of the first half of Lord of the Rings, R-B got called in again to do ''The Return Of The King''. We do not speak of such things here.)