This week, we celebrate Hobbit Day by pausing in our journey through J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and looking at the 1977 TV movie adaptation. Can you compress the whole story into 78 minutes? What happens when the goblins and elves become more monstrous? How do we understand the anti-war sentiment?

You can see the video version of this podcast here, and the slides are available for download by clicking here.

Show Notes:

• The Hobbit (1977)
• The Lord of the Rings (1978)
• The Return of the King (1980)

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Music by Corvus from Pixabay.