Even in a city as famous for food as Houston is, the Hobbit Café is legendary. Tucked away in the Upper Kirby area in an old house that has steadily grown like a tree over the last 27 years, it has ...

After their success with the 1977 animated Hobbit, Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass set to work on a sequel, which would specifically adapt Return of the King, but through the frame of The Hobbit.

Jackson's trilogy was not the first cinematic adaptation of The Hobbit, and Pace was not the first actor to portray the King of the Woodland Realm. Over 30 years earlier, Rankin/Bass Animated ...

But I have a new suggestion for Rings fans who might want to shake things up, or put an all-ages-friendly spin on the tradition: 1977’s The Hobbit. Animated for Rankin/Bass by Topcraft ...

Yes, most serious Tolkien-heads have seen the classic 1977 Rankin/Bass version of The Hobbit, but it’s in the beautiful strangeness of the 1980 Return of the King that the best and weirdest ...

Screen Junkies has released a fun new Honest Trailer and this one takes on the classic 1977 animated film adaptation of The Hobbit from Rankin/Bass. There’s plenty of stuff to poke fun at in this ...

But a proper trilogy it isn’t. Produced for NBC, the 78 minute film of The Hobbit was directed by Arthur Rankin Jr and Jules Bass, who were the studio that made all of those Christmas specials ...

Every holiday season, we give thanks for Rankin/Bass, the team behind Christmas TV specials “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.” The production company ...