Honestly, if someone with a sword named for it's ability to do genocide at my kind was sitting *right* at the entrance to my home, I'd be a bit skeptical too.
Same here. As a kid, i always focused less on the fact that they look like a hybrid of several animals (bodies of a toad, snake eyes, cat ears and noses, teeth of a shark, and horns of a bull) and more on their double throats.
for a short length kid's TV film, you can see they put a ton of effort and love into making it the best damned adaption they could. i mean they added the songs without it being corny and they even wrote and performed music to go with it. they didnt just have some hippy pan flute in the background. it was orchestral and catchy. this was a masterpiece and it doesnt get anywhere close to the appreciation it deserves.
That because of lot of these late 70s/80s era cartoons are developed overseas by Japanese animators. Especially this one and its return of the king sequel
I really love Gandalf's badass entrance here. The trippy death of the Goblin King fades into a small shining light, which transitions into being the glint of the sword, which is then revealed to be in the hands of Gandalf just in time for the drums of the catchy Goblin theme to kick in - all in under two seconds. What a fucking great transition. This movie rocks.
The reason the goblin king disappeared like that they weren’t allow to show killing so they had to be creative with it. To be fair this type of killing terrified me more than actually seeing an animated chat getting stabbed as a kid.
@@tmntgirl4life It gives the effect that the goblin king wasn't merely killed, but outright eradicated from existence, which is honestly even more badass.
This is the scene that scared the living shit outta me. My parents used it against me all the time. "If you don't brush your teeth, the goblins will get you."
Faby Ana I beg to differ. Lying to your children and fucking with their feelings is cruel and inhumane, but so are most things parents force upon their children.
@@fabiana7157 it's lazy. I've had depression/anxiety and regular nightmares/ lucid dreams since I was 9. Had my mom said that to me, when I didn't have the motivation to do anything, let alone brush my teeth. It wouldve fucked me up for years Don't fuck with your kid's emotions just because you can, they trust you
There’s something about Bilbo’s drop at 3:27 that makes me laugh hysterically. Maybe it’s the gracious amount of time it takes for him to actually fall and scream “OOOOOOOOOHHH!” 😆
"Who are these miserable persons?" When he said that it seemed kind of nice for him. Calling them "persons" instead of "maggots" or some name to demean them as people.
From the book: "The walls echoed to the clap, snap! and the crush, smash! and to the ugly laughter of their ho, ho! my lad! The general meaning of the song was only too plain; for now the goblins took out whips and whipped them with a swish, smack!, and set them running as fast as they could in front of them; and more than one of the dwarves were already yammering and bleating like anything, when they stumbled into a big cavern." So yeah.
2:51 when first watching the goblin kings end, I used to think Gandolf sword banished him to some hellish dimension, but then later realized this plot scene was to tonedown the violence.
The name Foe Hammer was possibly inspired by a real weapon. Called Foe's Fear which was a spear that Harold the first king of Norway crafted himself, and used in battle for decades.
Lyrics: Crush, smack! Whip crack! Smash, grab! Pinch, nab! You go, my lad! Ho, ho! my lad! The black crack! the back crack! The black crack! the back crack! Down down to Goblin-town Down down to Goblin-town Down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Ho, ho! my lad! Goblins quaff, and Goblins beat Goblins laugh, and Goblins bleat Batter, jabber, whip, and taver hoooooo! Below, my lad! Ho, ho! my lad! (Bilbo my lad) The black crack! the back crack! The black crack! the back crack! Down down to Goblin-town Down down to Goblin-town Down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Ho, ho! my lad!
@@Voc_spooksauce Since he never says it to them, they wouldn't know his name and they are singing more generally to all their captives it wouldn't make sense. Also this is taken directly from the English book
God, this brings back memories of my grandfather. He and I watched this together when I was young. He died a couple months after Battle of Five Armies. I still love this movie
Pop trivia: the studio who released this was Rankin-Bass, the same company who also released all the stop-motion animated Christmas specials like Rudolph. Also, the Japanese studio who animated this was Top Craft. They would later animate The Last Unicorn (also released by Rankin-Bass), and it’s members would eventually go on to work with Miyazaki on his film, Nausicaa, before eventually just joining him completely and becoming Studio Ghibli.
Ya the art style between this and Studio Ghibli are completely different. It's only until you know that you start finding similarities. Like the witch in Spirited Away has large hands, head and wrinkles all over like many of the characters in the hobbit.
This scene is incredible. That one song that lasts for less than a minute stuck in my head since I was a kid. The voice acting is masterful. Look how proud Thorin looks even as he's being captured. And even though the movie's not supposed to show violence, you can almost feel how painful it is to be wrapped in those chains.
You don’t fuck with the great goblin, the great goblin fucks with you ! And bite off your head ! Yeah, you were right, that would be a pretty hardcore death for a kid’s movie (and before you try to "correct" me, the Hobbit book was intended as a children’s book by JRR himself so I qualify the adaptation to be the same) !
That was actually in the book. "He (the Great Goblin) himself rushed at Thorin with his mouth wide open!" --The Hobbit, Chapter 4 Over Hill and Under Hill. While the book doesn't specifically say he intended to bite off Thorin's head, it's definitely within the realm of possibility.
@@capncake8837, possibly there were orcs/goblins that still lived in Middle-earth that had taken hand in the fall of Gondolin? Tolkien never wrote of them having a specific lifespan as far as I know. Maybe they would live as long as the elves if it were not for their wickedness putting them in dangerous situations and constant fighting amongst themselves?
I prefer this over Peter Jackson's version. When I was a kid, I saw this movie and read the book around the same time. The Goblins are scary looking in this version. The creature design in general (except for the Wood Elves) is far superior to Jackson's creature design, going for a very dark, mythological style. And as great as Howard Shore's score is, the music from this version sounds more like Middle Earth to me.
@@Bluecho4 That's what happens to nearly every creature that dies in this version. The animators weren't allowed to show blood, so all the enemies turn into spirits that get "banished" when they die.
@@Eingefallen It's a sword from The Elder Scrolls games that allows you to steal souls of any creatures slain with it and keep them in special soul gems.
deerdestroyer2009 I too was terrified by the Goblin King as a kid, and was so looking forward to an Awesome new CGI version in PJ's hobbit. Utter disappointment is an understatement. Not scary at all.
The problem with Peter Jackson's goblin king is that he tried to pay homage to Bakshi's version, which was very much a caricature. What was an exaggerated jowl became some kind of nauseating waddle, more disturbing than frightening. Jackson should have started with a clean slate. To be honest, I really didn't like his impressions of the wargs, cave trolls, or Balrog either.
The Goblin Song is awesome! I love this animated version. This was how I was introduced to J. R. R. Tolkien’s masterpieces: The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
I've always loved the design of these goblins/orcs. (Remember that goblins were lesser orc tribes that had left Mordor after the fall of Morgoth and settled elsewhere; the Fellowship ran into them in the Mines of Moira, too). They looked like absolute freaks of nature, a mishmash of many different creatures and the split throat openings everyone notices about them. And these had a sense of history; they *instantly* recognized First Age anti-orc weaponry (though their names for them in the book were "Biter" and "Beater"). THAT is what orcs were meant to look like: Twisted elves mutated into abominations.
I was a big fan of this and of the Rankin Bass version of Return of the King as well. I think I remember reading at one point that the animation studio was a blend of Japanese and Western artists, which I think comes through in the visual style. One problem though; the current home video releases have been subtly edited, at least on their audio tracks. Certain sound effects have been removed from the original master audio track. I'm not sure why. This scene is a prime example. Throughout the whole "Down, Down, to Goblin Town" attack in the night, there were originally sound effects of clanking and whipping chains throughout, not just a flat track of the song playing. Other songs in the movie have had their audio tracks streamlined to leave out sound effects. It's weird. I'm sure there are other examples of odd omissions from the original version. I grew up watching this on RCA Video Disc (Google that if you want to see a weird dead end of home video technology that my family inexplicably had) and they apparently had the master track.
If I remember correctly, there was some issue with the remaster because the original studio files/soundbites were destroyed or lost. But yes, I remember the chain sound effects. There were also more blood curdling screams from the spiders in Mirkwood during the fight scenes.
@@jamelramseur Except he IS'NT the Goblin King. In the book he is named The Great Goblin. The title of Goblin King only ever is used to describe Golfimbul, who was king until Bandobras Took clubbed his head off.
Bilbo suddenly becomes a god and defies gravity, lifting off the ground before he falls down the hole. Then Dori displays an unusual reaction to this and just sits there for a while.
I remember watching this movie as a child over and over until my parents had to buy another. Noted this was in 1999 or 2000 so it wasnt easy but they found it to appease me. To this day I still love this movie. This was always my favorite part of the movie 💙
Nice to see that my family wasn't the only one that wore out those 90s VHS tapes. My dad loved this film so much he'd watch it all the time, I grew up watching it on VHS or tv when it aired. It was my introduction to Middle Earth so this version of The Hobbit has a fond place in my heart.
Jeez I remember how much the goblins faces flashing in the dark scared me as a kid. I was born in 1999 , but my dad had a lot of old movies and I grew up watching them with my brothers. I wish animated movies had this level of detail. I miss it.
Goblins all gangster till Gandalf yells STOP and comes in like a star, and suddenly Glamdring flashes into sight and you know you gonna die. Also in the book when Gandalf appears, it says he shoots off sparks and sets Goblins on fire
I can tell - this is from the DVD re-release with the green cover from 2014 and is missing all the extra sound effects. Get the 1996 DVD or VHS release instead with the blue cover. All the original sound effects were left in tact. There’s even a bit of missing footage from the 2014 version.
2:11 so that one orc KNEW thorin had orchrist on him, and let him keep it, or are the goblins so familiar with that sword that they let him keep it till they could whip it out right in front of the goblin king?
Dude, as SOON as that chanting began, my heart dropped to my stomach!!!! This was hands-down the scariest thing I watched when I was 6 or 7. Peter Jackson's version of the Goblins capturing them was pretty dang good (the song sucked though), too but dang, this version of the song certainly strikes fear.
The way the characters are designed and the way they move remind me a lot of The Last Unicorn. I'm pretty sure there were a lot of the same people working on both franchises.
If the dwarves'd had a water/wine guzzling skeleton guarding the hidden door none of this would've happened. Proper security equipment pays for itself.
In the guys defense he never planned on directing those movies, but the original director dipped out of the scene mere months before production was set to begin. Their choices where to either call it a loss on all the money spent or keep going with peter jackson making movies he wanted no part of. Unlike the lord of the rings trilogy where the crew were taking pictures in front of prepared costumes and props a year in advance they had only months to scramble and get something together. The production was so grueling and rushed peter jackson had to stop part way through an unexpected journey to go to hospital for stress. Under these circumstances the hobbit trilogy turned out way better then it should have, even if it isn't faithful to the original tone of the books and is very clearly a prequel to the lord of the rings.
Something I'll always remember about the Hobbit animated film is that 1 it's how I first experienced the Hobbit as a small child, and 2 my Elementary school has a mural of Bilbo and the Shire on one of the walls
It was my introduction too, I saw it at my great grandmother's when I was 6, but didn't know anything else about Tolkien or the Lord of the rings until the live action movies came out.
When you just wanted to sleep but a goblin rock band steals your horses and sings at you
and they 2 throats for some reason
TheBig Galig goblins have the best vocal in all of Rankin Bass middle earth
Happens to me all the time. Really hate having to buy new horses.
Soul of Spaghetti “Goblin rock band.” Your comment is perfection itself.
They had the best songs too, lol! They were in the studio rehearsing that shit.
Honestly, if someone with a sword named for it's ability to do genocide at my kind was sitting *right* at the entrance to my home, I'd be a bit skeptical too.
I don't think skeptical is the word you're looking for.
@@eggmannega6895 skeptical that they werent there to genocide my kingdom? i think hes got the right word
I’d be right pissed about that
Eh. At that point I really wouldn't mind keeping it near my door.🤣
@hunter christensen Gotta look at it from the Goblins point of view
The designs of the goblins/orcs in this adaptation stuck in my head as the default versions of those creatures.
I love this design way better.
I liked this version of the goblins as huge borish creatures. The live action version seemed sort of off to me sence I saw this movie years before.
Goblins are actually just lesser, deformed orcs.
That's painful
@@cheeseburger8486 No, according to Tolkien, goblins and orcs are the same thing.
I was always freaked out that the goblins had two throats.
Same here. As a kid, i always focused less on the fact that they look like a hybrid of several animals (bodies of a toad, snake eyes, cat ears and noses, teeth of a shark, and horns of a bull) and more on their double throats.
Just realized this.
i noted how blue they were
werent there green ones as well?
Is that what that is? I used to think they just had very intense-looking uvulas
The left one is for babies, the right one is for water
for a short length kid's TV film, you can see they put a ton of effort and love into making it the best damned adaption they could. i mean they added the songs without it being corny and they even wrote and performed music to go with it. they didnt just have some hippy pan flute in the background. it was orchestral and catchy. this was a masterpiece and it doesnt get anywhere close to the appreciation it deserves.
That because of lot of these late 70s/80s era cartoons are developed overseas by Japanese animators. Especially this one and its return of the king sequel
Agreed. I still enjoy these movies
I saw this and,or the animated LOTR in the movie theater when I was a kid, not TV.
Don't read the comments to the clips of the Rankin-Bass production for The Return if the King - they aren't particularly kind.
“Without it being corny”
Look I can appreciate the love and work put into this but you are delusional if you don’t think this is corny as hell.
I really love Gandalf's badass entrance here. The trippy death of the Goblin King fades into a small shining light, which transitions into being the glint of the sword, which is then revealed to be in the hands of Gandalf just in time for the drums of the catchy Goblin theme to kick in - all in under two seconds. What a fucking great transition. This movie rocks.
Love how Gandalf comes in with a shout of "Stop!" and the light show of his sword
The reason the goblin king disappeared like that they weren’t allow to show killing so they had to be creative with it. To be fair this type of killing terrified me more than actually seeing an animated chat getting stabbed as a kid.
@@tmntgirl4life that reminds me of that episode of the grim adventures of billy and mandy when they age backwards into nonexistence.
@@tmntgirl4life It gives the effect that the goblin king wasn't merely killed, but outright eradicated from existence, which is honestly even more badass.
@@triplehate6759 I agree.
You ever slay so hard you send someone off to the shadow realm with a guy wobbling a piece of sheet metal?
It’s more of a purple realm
No, I think it was more of a blue realm. He was so shocked that he just excepted his fate and floated down the whirlpool of void
Only on tuesdays
@@gargoyles9999 i'm just sayin'
Love how Bilbo just throws the chains off of himself like they weren't tied or locked in the first place. Just sort of... draped over him.
Like garlands.
Gandalf used his magic to loosen the chains. That's why they came off so easily.
Perk of being a hobbit
The chains were draped over them. The goblins held the ends of the chains to keep them tight, but they let go when Gandalf showed
Well he IS a burglar ;)
"I wish I was a wizard"
(Wall moves)
Hagrid: your a wizard bilbo
Bilbo: A wizard? But I’m just Bilbo
It's you're
Hobbits can’t be wizards. They are too short.
Kai Porter Crafton What about Professor Flitwick?
Tyler Ward he illegally got into Hogwarts and said he was a troll.
This is the scene that scared the living shit outta me. My parents used it against me all the time. "If you don't brush your teeth, the goblins will get you."
Assholes.
Sounds like good parenting 😂
Faby Ana I beg to differ. Lying to your children and fucking with their feelings is cruel and inhumane, but so are most things parents force upon their children.
@@fabiana7157 it's lazy. I've had depression/anxiety and regular nightmares/ lucid dreams since I was 9. Had my mom said that to me, when I didn't have the motivation to do anything, let alone brush my teeth. It wouldve fucked me up for years
Don't fuck with your kid's emotions just because you can, they trust you
Well weren't they right? You brushed your teeth and Goblins didn't show up.
Anyone else think the orcs and goblins are great singers?
Where there's a whip there's a way
Thurl Ravenscroft
(1914-2005).
Creeps me out.
I mean, they *were* Elves once
Don t orcs the hobbit goblins run
There’s something about Bilbo’s drop at 3:27 that makes me laugh hysterically. Maybe it’s the gracious amount of time it takes for him to actually fall and scream “OOOOOOOOOHHH!” 😆
That part had me laughing so loud too!! 😂😂😂👌
The way he fell into that hole was so graceful
Takes him a full 5 seconds to scream so gently
its the weightlessness and impactless way everything slips around everything else. very dream like.
In the book he just got left behind instead of falling in a hole.
3:15 I just love how the drummer goes into such a great groove there.
“Bilbo! He’s gone!”
Middle Earth’s Greatest Detective!
"Who are these miserable persons?" When he said that it seemed kind of nice for him. Calling them "persons" instead of "maggots" or some name to demean them as people.
I thought he said "peasants."
Well, what you expect from the "truly tremendous one"?
Yea he honestly didn't strike me as evil here just confused.
The Goblin king was going to straight up bite that head
Even for a violent crew, that is pretty savage
From the book:
"The walls echoed to the clap, snap! and the crush, smash! and to the ugly laughter of their ho, ho! my lad! The general meaning of the song was only too plain; for now the goblins took out whips and whipped them with a swish, smack!, and set them running as fast as they could in front of them; and more than one of the dwarves were already yammering and bleating like anything, when they stumbled into a big cavern."
So yeah.
The moment and music at 3:01 when Gandalf appears is fantastic. One of my favorite movies as a kid
2:51 when first watching the goblin kings end, I used to think Gandolf sword banished him to some hellish dimension, but then later realized this plot scene was to tonedown the violence.
It actually sort of looks like he turns into a ghost and sails off into the spirit realm.
Why not both?
Gah, I can’t think of a cooler name for a sword than the “Foe Hammer”
The name Foe Hammer was possibly inspired by a real weapon. Called Foe's Fear which was a spear that Harold the first king of Norway crafted himself, and used in battle for decades.
@@TheLastWizard where are your sources for this? I've never heard of the spear foes fear.
@@aaronmorrison8050 Viking Tales, you might really enjoy it. ua-cam.com/video/Bdi0iZAuDw8/v-deo.html
"Widow's Wail"
Tinkledeath
I'm 30, and I still cheer when Gandalf appears
Same here!
I'm not sure "hello, what's this?" is the appropriate response when the stonewall that you're leaning on cracks right open.
Honestly that would be the most natural British reaction
That was the thing I always liked about the character, so proper and polite even in the worst of circumstances.
@@WombatProphecy Yeah I was going to type the same thing lol. Very English reaction.
I haven't watched this movie in a while, but I still remember every single line each character says. I used to always sort of act out the movie.
It's a great one. :)
Same!!
Indurok me too
You are not the only one
"That smell. I've never smelled dragon before." My bro & I always changed the line to say, "dragon poop." 😁
Every body dwarves till the cave starts singing goblin
Did you just use dwarf as a verb?
So what if he did
Don't mind me, just revisiting my childhood nightmares.
This is the way, brother...
Same..
Lyrics:
Crush, smack! Whip crack!
Smash, grab! Pinch, nab!
You go, my lad!
Ho, ho! my lad!
The black crack! the back crack!
The black crack! the back crack!
Down down to Goblin-town
Down down to Goblin-town
Down down to Goblin-town
You go, my lad!
Ho, ho! my lad!
Goblins quaff, and Goblins beat
Goblins laugh, and Goblins bleat
Batter, jabber, whip, and taver hoooooo!
Below, my lad!
Ho, ho! my lad!
(Bilbo my lad)
The black crack! the back crack!
The black crack! the back crack!
Down down to Goblin-town
Down down to Goblin-town
Down down to Goblin-town
You go, my lad!
Ho, ho! my lad!
I thought they said Bilbo's name in the song
@@Voc_spooksauce
Since he never says it to them, they wouldn't know his name and they are singing more generally to all their captives it wouldn't make sense.
Also this is taken directly from the English book
@@crabobserver Yeah true, but still that's what i was hearing instead.
@@Voc_spooksauce interesting.
Where in the song did you hear that?
Just asking
@@crabobserver For example at 1:32, when they are saying "ho ho, my lad"
God, this brings back memories of my grandfather. He and I watched this together when I was young. He died a couple months after Battle of Five Armies. I still love this movie
Hey look, they managed to draw the Great Goblin WITHOUT making his chin look like a pair of testicles
This movie is wholly underrated and light years better than the Peter Jackson monstrosity.
3:26 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@Tubten Rabten WTF
@John Doe lmao
John Doe Why?
Why this section make me think of Metal Gear?
Bilbo: AAAAHHHHH
Baurin: Bilbo? Bilbooooo!
How I feel after a night of heavy drinking
Pop trivia: the studio who released this was Rankin-Bass, the same company who also released all the stop-motion animated Christmas specials like Rudolph.
Also, the Japanese studio who animated this was Top Craft. They would later animate The Last Unicorn (also released by Rankin-Bass), and it’s members would eventually go on to work with Miyazaki on his film, Nausicaa, before eventually just joining him completely and becoming Studio Ghibli.
Ya the art style between this and Studio Ghibli are completely different. It's only until you know that you start finding similarities. Like the witch in Spirited Away has large hands, head and wrinkles all over like many of the characters in the hobbit.
You can see some slight similarity between this and their ink & paint animated Christmas specials, like the shape of some of the heads.
This scene is incredible. That one song that lasts for less than a minute stuck in my head since I was a kid. The voice acting is masterful. Look how proud Thorin looks even as he's being captured. And even though the movie's not supposed to show violence, you can almost feel how painful it is to be wrapped in those chains.
Yeah, for sure. For pure cinematography, charm and nostalgia, I choose this over PJ's Hobbit.
I agree. I really love the style of this animation, and the singing and music are also great
10/10, ABSOLUTELY...
mathcernea you fucking serious??
2:26 Did the Great Goblin just try to bite off Thorin's head?
Yep.
This Great Goblin don’t fuck around
You don’t fuck with the great goblin, the great goblin fucks with you !
And bite off your head !
Yeah, you were right, that would be a pretty hardcore death for a kid’s movie (and before you try to "correct" me, the Hobbit book was intended as a children’s book by JRR himself so I qualify the adaptation to be the same) !
That was actually in the book. "He (the Great Goblin) himself rushed at Thorin with his mouth wide open!" --The Hobbit, Chapter 4 Over Hill and Under Hill. While the book doesn't specifically say he intended to bite off Thorin's head, it's definitely within the realm of possibility.
So that’s why Goblin Slayer knew Goblin Champions are a Avenger Level Threat.
The fact that those goblins know about that sword is amazing. Those swords came from Gondolin with was destroyed several thousand years before.
Nat 20 knowledge roll
The story of that sword was probably passed down through the generations. Maybe a source nightmares for young goblins.
@@capncake8837
Very likely.
BTW, 'Foe Hammer' is a badass name for a sword.
@@Wavemaninawe Agreed.
@@capncake8837, possibly there were orcs/goblins that still lived in Middle-earth that had taken hand in the fall of Gondolin? Tolkien never wrote of them having a specific lifespan as far as I know. Maybe they would live as long as the elves if it were not for their wickedness putting them in dangerous situations and constant fighting amongst themselves?
I prefer this over Peter Jackson's version. When I was a kid, I saw this movie and read the book around the same time. The Goblins are scary looking in this version. The creature design in general (except for the Wood Elves) is far superior to Jackson's creature design, going for a very dark, mythological style. And as great as Howard Shore's score is, the music from this version sounds more like Middle Earth to me.
This scene could give your nightmares nightmares.
Did Gandalf just soul trap the Goblin King?
its an early prototype of the Umbra Sword
NO he meant to kill him
In the book gandalf stabbed him with that sword
Looked to me like Gandalf straight up banished the Goblin King from the world entirely, body and all.
@@Bluecho4 That's what happens to nearly every creature that dies in this version. The animators weren't allowed to show blood, so all the enemies turn into spirits that get "banished" when they die.
@@Eingefallen It's a sword from The Elder Scrolls games that allows you to steal souls of any creatures slain with it and keep them in special soul gems.
The Goblin King used to terrify me when I was a kid.
I know right man? But when I saw the Peter Jackson Hobbit, I couldn't believe how boring the king looked!! lol
I thought the goblin looked like a revolting slob
deerdestroyer2009 I too was terrified by the Goblin King as a kid, and was so looking forward to an Awesome new CGI version in PJ's hobbit. Utter disappointment is an understatement. Not scary at all.
deerdestroyer2009 I found this scene and the movie scary, but I liked the song.
The problem with Peter Jackson's goblin king is that he tried to pay homage to Bakshi's version, which was very much a caricature. What was an exaggerated jowl became some kind of nauseating waddle, more disturbing than frightening. Jackson should have started with a clean slate. To be honest, I really didn't like his impressions of the wargs, cave trolls, or Balrog either.
Anybody else remember being terrified by this scene as a 5 year old? I remember hiding behind our recliner when it came on!😂
Yes 100% still love how this whole story was told in under 2 hours
This song has been stuck in my head since childhood.
Tonight I've learned a valuable lesson. Don't let this movie be the last thing you see before bed.
I'm going to do just this.
0:47 The sound of those ponies being drug down to Hell is nightmare fuel
They eat ponies if I'm not mistaken so you're absolutely right.
that one dwarf just realized bilbo wasn't on his back
Yea. It's like it took a moment for it to sink in that Bilbo wasn't on his body.
It was Dori
Dori: "Bilbo? He's gone!"
Me: No sh!t Sherlock.
Lesson here - never ride piggy-back on a dwarf while fleeing goblins!
That goblin theme. Catchiest I’ve heard all day 😁
Gandalf the original Goblin slayer
Love how Thorin looks like the man who voiced him, Hans Conreid.
Childhood nightmare fuel for me? 2:17. It still gets to me, decades later.
I like how in the description it has category as pets and animals
i never noticed that. thats great. so does that mean Gandalf is abusing animals?
I mean, the goblins do steal their horses.
0:44 Yeah. And they just slither away, to reveal the real reason of this video.
Pony: Bwahaha. You fool!
The Goblin Song is awesome! I love this animated version. This was how I was introduced to J. R. R. Tolkien’s masterpieces: The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
I've always loved the design of these goblins/orcs. (Remember that goblins were lesser orc tribes that had left Mordor after the fall of Morgoth and settled elsewhere; the Fellowship ran into them in the Mines of Moira, too). They looked like absolute freaks of nature, a mishmash of many different creatures and the split throat openings everyone notices about them. And these had a sense of history; they *instantly* recognized First Age anti-orc weaponry (though their names for them in the book were "Biter" and "Beater"). THAT is what orcs were meant to look like: Twisted elves mutated into abominations.
This part TERRIFIED me when I was younger, I couldn't watch the movie more than once because of this part loo
I was a big fan of this and of the Rankin Bass version of Return of the King as well. I think I remember reading at one point that the animation studio was a blend of Japanese and Western artists, which I think comes through in the visual style.
One problem though; the current home video releases have been subtly edited, at least on their audio tracks. Certain sound effects have been removed from the original master audio track. I'm not sure why.
This scene is a prime example. Throughout the whole "Down, Down, to Goblin Town" attack in the night, there were originally sound effects of clanking and whipping chains throughout, not just a flat track of the song playing. Other songs in the movie have had their audio tracks streamlined to leave out sound effects. It's weird.
I'm sure there are other examples of odd omissions from the original version. I grew up watching this on RCA Video Disc (Google that if you want to see a weird dead end of home video technology that my family inexplicably had) and they apparently had the master track.
If I remember correctly, there was some issue with the remaster because the original studio files/soundbites were destroyed or lost. But yes, I remember the chain sound effects. There were also more blood curdling screams from the spiders in Mirkwood during the fight scenes.
I've been looking for this movie for like a decade and I've finally found it!
This is scary as hell and the song is a full on jam when they escape.
3:26 when someone says frick in 2nd grade
Absolutely loved ❤️ this movie as a kid. This song and other songs and lines from this movie pop in my head so I get on UA-cam and watch them again.
WHO ARE THESE MISERABLE PERSONS!?
He said peasants
@@jamelramseur Its persons.
@@theatricaldragon9766 Oh okay. I thought that since he was the Goblin King, anyone outside his kingdom were dubbed as peasants.
@@jamelramseur Except he IS'NT the Goblin King. In the book he is named The Great Goblin. The title of Goblin King only ever is used to describe Golfimbul, who was king until Bandobras Took clubbed his head off.
Thorin, at your service; we did not mean to trespass. We were merely seeking shelter from the storm
just what I was looking for... thanks for posting it.
"Who are these miserable persons?"
Goblin king: Not Glamdring!! It burns!!
Goblin King was captured! Uploading Goblin King data to the Pokedex.
lol the faces of evil
“Join me Bilbo, and I will make your face face the G R E A T E S T I the Shire, or else you will D I E!”
Some of the sound effects from the original HOBBIT tv movie are missing.
I know, it's a bit of a shame
This happened when they switched to high def sound for newer vhs tapes. A lot of the sound effects were lost.
@@chenstormstout9456 MAYBE A BRAND NEW HOBBIT VIDEO WILL AIR THE ORIGINAL SOUND EFFECTS.
Bilbo suddenly becomes a god and defies gravity, lifting off the ground before he falls down the hole. Then Dori displays an unusual reaction to this and just sits there for a while.
My favorite part is how the goblin king's first instinct was to bite Thorin's head off.
To be honest, the goblins have a good point. Imagine we capture an alien with a weapon called ''Human Slayer''
This song never gets old. I want this to be my theme song.
I remember borrowing this from the library and being scared and loving it. Hoho my lad!!!
I always liked how the enemies spun around into oblivion when the sword struck them.
I think he's saying "Murderers! Elf-friends!" Orcrist and Glamdring were made by Elven smiths, if I remember the stories correctly.
They were glamdring was forged for a elvish king in the great wars against melkor and his children. It was forged to fight the strongest of evils.
I think the swords were made in Gondolin, in the First Age
2:25 that part has always made me uneasy ever since I was a kid.
Sage Same and Green Gollum still scares me
Straight up INTENSE...
The fall at the end made me and my dad cry laughing
I remember watching this movie as a child over and over until my parents had to buy another. Noted this was in 1999 or 2000 so it wasnt easy but they found it to appease me. To this day I still love this movie. This was always my favorite part of the movie 💙
I know exactly what you mean and that should make me feel old but considering how fast technology evolves it doesn't.
Nice to see that my family wasn't the only one that wore out those 90s VHS tapes. My dad loved this film so much he'd watch it all the time, I grew up watching it on VHS or tv when it aired. It was my introduction to Middle Earth so this version of The Hobbit has a fond place in my heart.
Dwarves are heavy sleepers, the wall opens up, there's rocks falling and the ponies are taken and they don't wake up.
Man the music in this was great
This film will, honestly, forever be the definitive adaptation of The Hobbit for me. The Peter Jackson Hobbit films just don't exist
I remember this song haunted the deepest nightmares of my 8 year old self
Yeee man, me too. Scary song.
With his life points reduced to zero, the Goblin King was banished to the shadow realm.
This brings me back to the good old days
Bilbo doesn’t fall, he floats down the cavern.
God I love this movie. I always feel like all the characters in it.
Jeez I remember how much the goblins faces flashing in the dark scared me as a kid. I was born in 1999 , but my dad had a lot of old movies and I grew up watching them with my brothers. I wish animated movies had this level of detail. I miss it.
Goblins all gangster till Gandalf yells STOP and comes in like a star, and suddenly Glamdring flashes into sight and you know you gonna die. Also in the book when Gandalf appears, it says he shoots off sparks and sets Goblins on fire
I can tell - this is from the DVD re-release with the green cover from 2014 and is missing all the extra sound effects. Get the 1996 DVD or VHS release instead with the blue cover. All the original sound effects were left in tact. There’s even a bit of missing footage from the 2014 version.
i found some internet archive that had a VHS rip.
The moment you realize a goblin king almost bites off a dwarf’s head in a children’s movie
"Glamdring, The Foe-hammer" is easily the most badass name for a sword, imo.
2:18 when you step on a Lego
@@donaldchandler2520 *Soul gets sucked into lego brick*
3:26 is better
This show knows how to make things scary.
23 people never made it out of Goblin Town.
The Dwarfs dont care about the horses until Bilbo shouts ''Wake up were being robbed!'' lol
"I wish I was a wizard."
We've all had to give up that dream at some point, Bilbo.
"You go, my lad! Ho Ho my lad!" a real foot tapper that one! Bad guys always have the best song.
1:55 When I log onto a Zoom meeting with people I don't know
2:11 so that one orc KNEW thorin had orchrist on him, and let him keep it, or are the goblins so familiar with that sword that they let him keep it till they could whip it out right in front of the goblin king?
My best guess is they knew about it and waited until they got to the Goblin King and show it to him.
I love Gandalf's appearance here vs the Hobbit an unexpected journey.
I had nightmares of this movie when I was little.
Dude, as SOON as that chanting began, my heart dropped to my stomach!!!! This was hands-down the scariest thing I watched when I was 6 or 7.
Peter Jackson's version of the Goblins capturing them was pretty dang good (the song sucked though), too but dang, this version of the song certainly strikes fear.
down down to goblin town
Goblins have two throats.
The way the characters are designed and the way they move remind me a lot of The Last Unicorn. I'm pretty sure there were a lot of the same people working on both franchises.
I had both recorded on the same VHS
The same studio produced both films.
If the dwarves'd had a water/wine guzzling skeleton guarding the hidden door none of this would've happened. Proper security equipment pays for itself.
This actually fits the tone of the Book way more than the Jackson ones
In the guys defense he never planned on directing those movies, but the original director dipped out of the scene mere months before production was set to begin. Their choices where to either call it a loss on all the money spent or keep going with peter jackson making movies he wanted no part of. Unlike the lord of the rings trilogy where the crew were taking pictures in front of prepared costumes and props a year in advance they had only months to scramble and get something together. The production was so grueling and rushed peter jackson had to stop part way through an unexpected journey to go to hospital for stress. Under these circumstances the hobbit trilogy turned out way better then it should have, even if it isn't faithful to the original tone of the books and is very clearly a prequel to the lord of the rings.
@@joshuajoestar5863 yeah I knew all that 😂😂😂
Still doesn't make me like the movies more
This song should be played on any NRA Members home alarm.
"Your Honor I swear he Heard that he was in Goblin Town before I Shot Him Down!"
That moment when you get sliced by a sword and it sends you to the Shadow Realm.
Goblin: Who is that miserable peasant?
*A flying tomahawk from the darkness buries into the head of the goblin
???: That makes one
The only good goblins are the ones who never come out of their stinking holes.
oh thats a brain smell, ooo its coming out of my head, ooooo! OOOOO!!
Something I'll always remember about the Hobbit animated film is that 1 it's how I first experienced the Hobbit as a small child, and 2 my Elementary school has a mural of Bilbo and the Shire on one of the walls
It was my introduction too, I saw it at my great grandmother's when I was 6, but didn't know anything else about Tolkien or the Lord of the rings until the live action movies came out.