The 1977 Hobbit is cute, the animation is detailed (it was animated by Topcraft, who would later make Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and were the precursor to Studio Ghibli) and – importantly – was my introduction to Tolkien’s work when I was a child. But it lacks key plot po...
Nope. Forgot. Didn’t even… because it didn’t show who he was before and it was just this one-off neat thing where you get to dress up like a scout trooper, not a Stormtrooper just so you know. [Laughs] I think its a scout trooper, it’s not a Stormtrooper. Anyway so they p...