Tolkien Theme - Rankin/Bass Hobbit Movie

The Rankin/Bass Hobbit movie is a Animated TV movie from the 1970s based on the Tolkien book. It is often grouped with the Bakshi Lord of the Rings and Rankin/Bass Return of the King movie as a trilogy, however it has nothing to connect it to the Bakshi movie apart from being animated and being made in the 1970s.

As it was only a TV movie there were not a lot of collectables produced, however this Theme post details what I have found.

This blog is all about the Rankin/Bass production company and includes quite a bit of detail about the Hobbit movie https://taint-the-meat.com/2013/10/29/the-hobbit/

Here is an article about the artists who created the animation https://tolkiencourse.blogspot.com/p/the-artists-of-rankin-bass-hobbit.html

The following are websites which feature the Hobbit movie:

https://enchantedworldofrankinbass.blogspot.com/search?q=Hobbit

http://www.thetolkienist.com/2014/07/22/rankin-bass-hobbit-return-king-remastered/

http://zacksfilmthoughts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/recent-watches-hobbit-1977.html

https://2warpstoneptune.com/2014/06/12/tv-guide-article-on-the-the-hobbit-tv-movie1977/

Original Storyboards

This is real one-off mega collectable as I believe that these are all complete in one collection.

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/the-hobbit-complete-original-storyboard-for-the-a-974-c-def4171a6a#

Example pages

         

Video

VHS

Laserdisc (CED)

http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/tolkien/hobbit.html

Xerox Sound and Filmstrip Kit

        

        

DVD

Also published as "Bilbo Baggins"

Animation Triple Pack

DVD

Rankin Bass Boxed Set

Hobbit and Return of the King

VHS

Records

LP

Soundtrack (Abridged)

https://www.rootsvinylguide.com/ebay_items/the-hobbit-soundtrack-1977-disneyland-lp-3819-with-booklet-rankin-bass--2

    
    
    
    

    
    
    
    
alternative cover

Vista record #5007

    

Soundtrack (Complete)

    

Single

Read along book

Jigsaw Puzzles

American Publishing Corp

Board Game

    

    

Calendars

1979

    

Posters

Pre-release Promo Poster

    

Promo posters

1977

Bilbo and Gandalf, Bilbo and the Great Birds, Glow of Smaug, Bilbo, Bilbo and the Great Goblin, Journey through the Misty Mountains

    

The Hobbit

8” x 24”

    

Soundtrack poster (comes with the LP)

Books

Deluxe Edition

    

Deluxe Edition

With acetate cover

1977

http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/tolkien-book-store/001248.htm

    

Standard Edition

1989

    

Sheet Music
    

Promo Badge
    

Magazines

Children’s Digest Feb 1974

    

TV Preview Nov 1977
    

TV News

    

TV Day
    

TV Weekly
    

TV World - Tulsa 1977
    

    

TV Channels

Washington Post Supplement

1977 Nov 27 - Dec 3

    

    

TV Guide