The Hobbit Part 1

The Hobbit Part 1 by Legendary Frog
 (picture is Property of Legendary Frog)

The Hobbit Part 1 is a flash short from about 5 or so years ago.  It was one of Legendary Frog’s last projects before starting Toonwerks.  The hobbit part 1 is a comedic movie that is about a Hobbit Bilbo Baggins who like other hobbits likes to smoke Pipe Weed.  It parodies the book the Hobbit very well and makes fun of its shortcomings like the fact that Golem and Bilbo play a strange game of riddles where if Golem wins he gets to eat Bilbo.  The video is worth the 10 minutes of your time it will take to watch it however it only covers half of the book and ends in the middle of Bilbo and Golem’s game of Riddles.

In a similar sense The Hobbit an Unexpected Journey covers the Journey of Bilbo Baggins about 2/3 through the book (basically up to Mirkwood) it is a well-made  movie with lots of action, humor, and follows closely to Tolkien’s original story.  Unlike most movies this movie has extra characters and parts added.  While some would find this annoying I would say that it only adds to the movie as Peter Jackson tries to make the movie not only the story of 13 dwarves and Bilbo Baggins but also a prequel to the Lord of the Rings series.  In addition to the book there is a white orc in the movie and also the character Radaghast the Brown makes a few appearances but instead of distracting from the main story the added portions make sense for the most part and add to the story line.  Overall if they were to have made the Hobbit into a one-part movie that was as good as this first part of three it would have had to have been at least a 5 hour movie so the Hobbit an Unexpected Journey as an Unexpectly good movie and is well worth your time.