History WesternAnimation / TheHobbit

* NotableOriginalMusic: "Fifteen Birds in Five Fir Trees" and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPkqjc23yqs#t=0m37s "Goblin Town"]].
** Most of the songs are musical adaptations of text-only songs from the book (which is not to suggest that they aren't thoroughly excellent).
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXP8VEXWMs "The Dwarf Song"]] as well; this one was so notable that [[Film/TheHobbit a later adaptation]] took obvious pains to ''not'' make it just the same song, and didn't entirely succeed, which is for the best because people wanted this song again:
-->''The sword is sharp, the spear is long, the arrow swift, the gate is strong.\\
The heart is bold that looks on gold... And dwarves no more shall suffer wrong.\\
The King has come into his hall... Under the mountain dark and tall.\\
The worm of dread is slain and dead, and ever so our foes shall fall!''

* ThisIsMadness! 14 against 10,000? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "This is WAR! WAAAAAR!"]]

* AdaptationalUgliness: The wood elves are described as beautiful in Tolkien's writings, but here are shown as ugly and having green skin. Elrond and his elves remain fair, however, which makes it seem as if they are two different species.

** The film, however, ''compounds'' on this, because it actually makes use of the very vague descriptions Tolkien gave for the elves in ''The Hobbit'' specifically - while Elrond looks very noble, the wood elves are much closer to the original Scandinavian depictions of such creatures, being short, a bit ugly, and having ''green skin''. Which makes them very different from other depictions of elves in Tolkien's wake!

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The first meeting with the wood elves was left out... and then alluded to in the second meeting as "the wood elves had returned."

* TheOneGuy: To be more specific, The One ''Hobbit'', making this film ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Bilbo is both the only hobbit involved in the dwarves' quest and the only Hobbit appearing in the film; despite the opening narration stating that Bilbo lives in the village of Hobbiton, no other hobbits appear, and the village itself is barely glimpsed through Bilbo's windows during the opening credits. Even Bilbo's dreams of enjoying the potential rewards of the quest feature only dwarves waiting on him.
** Rankin/Bass' sequel adaptation of ''The Return of the King" increases the number of on-screen hobbits to five--i.e., Frodo, Samwise, Merry, and Pippin, the hobbit members of the Fellowship of the Ring, along with an aged Bilbo.

* MoralDissonance: When the men of Lake-town and the wood elves both demand a share of the treasure after the death of the dragon Smaug. See [[Headscratchers/TheHobbit Headscratchers]] for details.

* AdaptationalWimp: When Gandalf arrives in Goblin-Town, the books' version has him emit a number of sparks from his staff that cause the goblins to go mad with pain for a short while. Here, the sparks don't do very much aside from distract the goblins.

* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Just before he died, [[spoiler:Thorin]] apologized to Bilbo for calling him a coward before.

** Most of the songs are musical adaptations of text-only songs from the book (which is not to suggest that they aren't thoroughly excellent). Some of these songs are at or near EarWorm status, [[NightmareFuel/AnimatedFilms especially]] "Goblin Town" (and the Rivendell song in a way that is potentially more annoying).

* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Bilbo smokes a pipe.

* {{Cephalothorax}}: The Goblins. Less so in ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing''. Canonically, the Chief Goblin could bite your head off. Indeed, his mouth is so big in this version, it could swallow a dwarf.

* BadassAdorable: Bilbo establishes himself as one when he killed a GiantSpider for the first time, and named his blade Sting since then. Then he rescues the dwarves from other giant spiders, kills some more of the spiders, and rescues the dwarves ''again'' from the wood elves. Too bad he doesn't participate in the Battle of the Five Armies, though it's pretty accurate to the book as well.

The Creator/RankinBass adaptation of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' has an {{animesque}} style similar to their adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn''. It might have to do with the fact it was animated by Creator/{{Topcraft}}, which would later make ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind ''. It also had a number of {{Celebrity Voice Actor}}s, including Creator/JohnHuston as Gandalf.

%%* AsideComment: "Personally, I'd rather be back in Hobbiton." (Who says this, and in what context?)

* SayMyName: "I am Gandalf, and ''[[ShapedLikeItself Gandalf means]]'' -- [[MemeticBadass ME!!"]]

* MadeForTVMovie: It's a television movie, with blatantly obvious cliffhanger-and-CutToBlack moments showing where commercials were supposed to go.

* MadeForTVMovie: It's a television movie.

* AdaptationalUgliness: The wood elves are described as beautiful in Tolkien's writings, but here are shown as ugly and having green skin. Elrond and his elves remain fair, however.

* ThereIsAnother: "Oh, Bilbo Baggins, if you really understood that ring, as someday members of your family not yet born will, then you'd realize that this story has not ended, [[TheLordOfTheRings but is only beginning]]."

%%* AnimatedAdaptation: [[Literature/TheHobbit Of the book]].

-->'''Bilbo''' (''talking to the camera while he's headed for the war''): "Personally, I'd rather be back in Hobbiton."