Movie Trivia for The Hobbit (1977)
Memorable Movie Quotes
Bilbo Baggins: No hat, no stick, no pipe, not even a pocket handkerchief. How can one survive?
Bard: Black arrow! You’ve never failed me, and I’ve always recovered you. I had you from my father, and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true King under the Mountain, go now and speed well!
Bilbo Baggins: [to Gollum] I’m Mr. Bilbo Baggins. I’ve lost my dwarves, my wizard and my way.
Gandalf the Grey: Now, now, I am already late because of bothering with you people.
Gandalf the Grey: Oh, Bilbo Baggins! If you really understood that ring, as someday members of your family not yet born will, then you’d realise that this story has not ended, but is only beginning.
Trivia
The only original song lyrics in the movie are those to “The Greatest Adventure” and other sections where that melody is used. All others are directly from the book as written by J.R.R. Tolkien or adaptations of what he wrote in verse form.
The song sung while Bilbo and the dwarves as they walk through Mirkwood, “Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shown, By streams that never find the see,” is taken directly from the book, although in it Bilbo sings it as he first sees Hobbitton upon his return.
The dwarves’ map and runes upon it are an exact copy of the version included in the book, although the phrase indicated as written in the moon runes is incorrect. When Elrond holds the map of Lonely Mountain up to the moon and reads; “Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks and the setting sun will shine upon the keyhole,” the runes shown actually read; “Five feet high the door, and three may walk abreast,” the part of the map that was already visible, hence Gandalf’s comment about the door being too small for Smaug to notice it.
The second song sung by the dwarves at Bag End, “Far o’er the misty mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away ere break of day, To seek the pale enchanted gold,” is a direct quote of the first verse of the book version (which has ten verses).
The Hobbit was animated by Topcraft in Tokyo, a now-defunct Japanese animation studio whose animation team re-formed as Studio Ghibli under Hayao Miyazaki.
The Wood Elves, including the Elven king Thranduil, are rendered as squat, ugly, and gray-skinned, unlike Elves described in Tolkien’s works.
Goofs
Bilbo tells the dwarves to “run back to the wood-elf clearing” while he fights a rearguard action against the Mirkwood spiders. However, the company has not yet met the wood-elves. When they reach the clearing, Bilbo notes that the wood-elves “had returned, armed for battle”. This is the first time we see the wood-elves. There is a scene from the book which was clearly scripted but is missing from the animation, where the starving dwarves attempt to gate-crash a gathering of wood-elves in a clearing.
When Bilbo finds the ring it’s shown with an elaborate design on it. In the book the ring was plain and unadorned. Although when you put it in the fire, writing in the Black Speech appears.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget $3,000,000
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