The Hobbit was it for me, so I appreciate the chosen image for this question.
The way the dark forest was described is unnervingly nightmarish to me to this day. The whole atmosphere is just so downtrodden and there's this constant sense of danger and pressing need to journey onwards, without the big bad really playing much of a role and then being replaced by the greed of Thorin himself.
Also dwarves. Dwarves are awesome. Also halflings. Halflings are awesome.
@Imperor my mum use to read the Hobbit to me and my brother when we were having a bath. Only problem was that my brother then finished the chapter in bed on his own (he's two and a half years older than me). So I spent my childhood with this disjointed telling of the Hobbit. I made up for it as an adult though as I've read it multiple times. It never gets old.
I had and have a German casette version of it from the 80s or 90s. Used to listen to that on repeat.
The song of the dwarves at Bagend in that variant still gives me shivers. Sadly I never found a version of just the song or a full one. I don't think they ever made it, so all I got is the snippets interjected with the narrator.
This also has the best Gandalf to my mind. Love it.
Add comment