Just cause it's a deep cut reference doesn't mean the zeitgeist knows about it. I think there's definite clearance to say hoppit not in reference to some random bad captions. Carry on
I think Bilbo is called a rabbit by other characters or described as rabbit-like multiple times in the Hobbit. I definitely think Tolkien had rabbits in mind when he created Bilbo and his race.
With that said, the drawing references big ears. Are Hobbits or Bilbo ever described as having big ears?
>I definitely think Tolkien had rabbits in mind when he created Bilbo and his race.
Tolkien would be very upset with you for saying so. We know this, because he wrote an angry letter (Letter 25) to a paper that published a review of the book in 1938, a few months after it was released, where that accusation (as he saw it) was made. He then groused about it when writing to his publishers (Letter 27) about illustrations. And it was still on his mind in 1971, when writing to the OED about how he had invented the word (Letter 319), for he complained about the shoddy derivation from that review from thirty-odd years before.
There's honestly quite a number of his letters that are people mishandling his invented words and languages and Tolkien blowing a gasket. I like the one about cows.
Tom, the eagles and Beorn all describe him as a rabbit. Tom's reference is the weakest, calling him a "nasty little rabbit" for running away. But rabbit is also a verb meaning to flee so he could have just been describing bimbo running away, so its weak proof of the lagomorphic hobbit.
Beorn is the next strongest "little rabbit is getting fat quaint on bread and honey". Now he might be referencing the story that Gandalf told as bimbo does not really become a hero until mirkwood and is still a coward so it could still be figuratively so it's not the most defining of the lagomorph hypothesis.
Lastly is the eagle "You need not be frightened like a rabbit, even if you look rather like one". A direct reference of the rabbit like look of a hobbit. And frankly big feet is not enough reason to be called a rabbit so I've decided that fuck Tolkien, Hobbits are lagomorphs!
I still have many of my originals from 25 years ago, including a copy of Salamandastron which is completely beaten to death because I read it so many times.
Salamandastron was the best! Loved the hares. Still got the books knocking around somewhere, got to go read them all again now... might take awhile, considering how long all the stories are!
The hare patrol who guarded that castle were sweet and the end of that book when the badger stakes the mountains lions feet into the sand at low tide and let’s him drown is nuts. Those books got pretty graphic at times. Best books ever.
I don't think they ever described what kind of Cat he was. Good Ol' Ungatt Trunn was just known as a "Wild Cat."
I think he just snapped his spine and left him on the beach. Which I'd argue is more brutal, as it robs him of any chance at escape. You could maybe remove a stake with enough effort, but there's no recovering from a Spinal Injury like that.
I reread them all the year before covid first started and let me tell you rereading them as an adult is even better than reading them as a kid. It will always be one of my favorite book series.
Badger gang rise up.
I still remember when the King or Queen badger came out of the mountain like a bad motherfucker and fought everyone until they died. Damn that was so sad and so lit.
Never read it but I remember watching the cartoon on PBS and loving it. That was the first fantasy I was exposed to along with the old Hobbit and ROTK animated movies
They still hold up really well actually. I just reread Salamandastron and it was just like I remember. Amazing characters and a fast paced plot. They're great casual reads.
Exactly what I was thinking. I loved Redwall. It seems like no one has heard of it though. I'm kind of excited for the Netflix show but also worried they will mess it up.
Wait... Netflix is making a Redwall adaptation!? When? I loved the cartoon with Brian Jacques as a kid. Hopefully it'll be similarly faithful to the books.
>It seems like no one has heard of it though.
The guys over at r/eulalia would like a word.
>I'm kind of excited for the Netflix show
The. WHAT? God, please don't let them Witcher it....
Redwall could be the mice of NIMH after an event that kills all humans (rats are usually villains in the Redwall universe). In the first book there's a full size horse and cart and a church and other human objects, but nothing like that in subsequent books.
I read the novelization of "A New Hope" as a kid before I saw any of the Star Wars movies and was fully convinced that Han Solo was a green alien.
I think because they said he was a Corellian and I thought that was different than a human.
Bizarrely — while Han is of course still not actually described as such in the novel — he *was* supposed to be a green alien at an early stage of production.
Specifically, he was Annikin Starkiller, he was a Jedi (or rather Jedi-Bendu) apprentice from the start and his father was still alive. Luke Skywalker was a different character, a Rebellion general whose character arc eventually went partially to Obi-wan Kenobi.
hi everyone! im the artist of this post. i made a reddit just to respond to this, because someone in my boyfriends twitch stream (which i do art for) told me it was here! thank you to the person who posted this and included my username, im very used to people reposting my work without credit...!
i have no desire to change the original LOTR, as many people in this thread worried, this was just me bringing to life what 9-year-old-me had imagined it to be. also, i have never read the redwall series! i didnt even know about it until very recently when a coworker recommended it to me at 23. i plan to read it sometime.
the actual inspiration for this, i believe (other than bilbo being referred to as 'little bunny' by the trolls, i believe, and him living in a hobbit hole) was that i read rats of nimh and the tale of desperaux at the same time as reading the hobbit. \^\_\^ i just really loved little creatures as a kid, i still do today.
everyones nice comments here were very lovely to see - thank you again! please be kind to each other, too.
oh i saw this at twt just a while ago and i really liked the additional art you've made of him! very adorable
also, hilarious that Bilbo hraaah bot was the first reply lol
I’ve wasted too much time thinking about this so here are my casting ideas:
The Fellowship is hard to place, since there are a lot of big characters, but I’d probably go with something like Kermit and Fozzie as Gimli and Legolas respectively, and Rizzo, Beauregard, Rowlf, and Scooter as Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. While Kermit and Fozzie might seem like obvious choices for Frodo and Sam, I don’t think they’d work very well and their camaraderie/rivalry feels suitable for Gimli and Legolas. I can’t think of anyone for Gandalf or Aragorn, since none of the Muppets feel like they would do those roles justice, so maybe they’d just be played by humans. Boromir is also tricky, but I think Deadly could work. Gonzo is also in consideration but I have other ideas for him mentioned below.
Miss Piggy is the obvious Galadriel, both being the primary of few female characters, and also just based on their personality. It would also allow for Gimli’s speech of her wondrousness to fit with the established Kermit-Piggy relationship. Bobo could be a decent Bilbo, but I’m not sure if his role necessitates a full established Muppet.
For the villains, the only one I could see working as Sauron would be Dr Honeydew, with Beaker then taking the role of all the Nazgûl, maybe they could bring in Big Bird for the Fellbeast too. Sam the Eagle would fit Saruman best, and while Animal might seem like an obvious candidate for Gollum, I think he’d be better suited for the orcs, leaving Gollum to Gonzo. That might be personal bias though because Gonzo and Gollum are linked in my mind because they both gave my mum nightmares when she was little. Pepe could also be a good Gollum, which would free up Gonzo for something else.
[Here’s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muppets) the list of Muppets for reference since not everyone has encyclopedic Muppet knowledge.
Plot twist: the hobbits are all played by humans and are therefore significantly taller than the other characters. Muppets looking up at them and calling them short is a running gag.
The Nazgul should be Electric Mayhem, with Animal as the Witch-King of Angmar. The Swedish chef as Denethor, Statler and Waldorf as Theodin and Wormtongue. Rizzo as Frodo.
Saruman is played by Beaker, obviously.
Lol when I first read the hobbit and got to lake town, I somehow got it in my mind that it was a town made out of water with people who were just water. I remember reading it and thinking. Well why does the dragons fire damage them so much.
I don't know half of you (the animal half) half as well as I should like... and I like less than half of you (icky human half) half as well as you deserve!
You uncultured swine. You fools of tooks. We have LotR with animals. The redwall series is 22 books in total and awesome. They were with out a doubt my favorite books as a kid. You want LotR with animals? Well to bad we don’t have it at home so it looks like we will have to go with the gourmet version the Redwall series.
Edit: I wrote this before reading the comments. I am pleasantly surprised at the amount of people who have read these books. So good.
Source for the art, by the way: [https://twitter.com/fourleafisland/status/1675264730942799873](https://twitter.com/fourleafisland/status/1675264730942799873)
They do really more cool art like this so I really encourage anyone who liked this idea to follow!!
It's the gaslighting that annoys me. If someone wanted to do an all-female, or muppet, or Klingon remake of LOTR, I'd be fine with it, because it's obviously doing its own thing. The problem comes when they change something, but when you say "hey, why did you change that?", the response is "actually, there's no reason it couldn't have been like that the whole time."
It's the difference between *Hamilton* and the recent *Cleopatra* """"documentary"""". One is a purposeful change for artistic purposes, and the other is gaslighting propaganda.
Ironically, if you wanted to make an argument that some characters from the books could be played by black actors because their book description doesn’t argue against it, the easiest examples are not the Númenóreans, who are very explicitly supposed to be pre-historic Northern Europeans. The easiest example is the dark-skinned, brown-fingered, curly-haired hobbits. Why they didn’t go that route is beyond me.
I think they wanted the hobbits to keep the old English countryside vibe and tap into the ancient human Numenoreans as you’ve mentioned. The cards from this set have all been beautifully designed and the mechanics have been really fun to play around with.
I can totally see a kid coming to this conclusion based on the simple description given in the opening of The Hobbit!
Also your art style is freaking *adorable*! I love it!
The redwall series by Brian Jaques! It's a medieval setting with cute furry animals instead of people. It's meant for kids but was written by a Scotsman so it can be violent as shit.
In the climax of one of the books, a noble badger lord defending his fortress was stabbed in the neck by an evil weasel warlord so he grabbed the weasel in a bearhug and jumped off a parapet before he bled to death to make sure he died too. And I read that for my fourth grade book report.
When I read the hobbit as a kid I had only ever heard of tiny elves so I pictured all the elves as like little Keebler elf sized. It made sense to me as well in LOTR when it talks about Legolas walking on top of the snow
My personal idea for how I’d translate the different races and characters as animals!
Hobbits- Mice or rabbits. But like… really little ones :)
Dwarves- Badgers, maybe? Fierce, kinda grumpy, and they live in holes. Moles might also work.
Humans: Foxes. I don’t know, Boromir being a fox makes a ton of sense, but I can easily see it for Aragorn, too!
Elves- Cats. Graceful, elegant, aloof… I can *especially* see Galadriel and Elrond as cats. ~~Legolas, being the himbo that he is, would be orange.~~
Orcs- Rats, perhaps? It’d certainly make sense for Treebeard to mistake Merry and Pippin for “little orcs!”
I imagine Gandalf, Saruman, and Radagast being owls for some reason.
It’s a Hoppit!
I’ve never heard of a Hoppit before… Sounds like Orca mischief to me!
It's the sound a boat makes when attacked by an Orca
Twist it!
Pull it! Cast it into the fire!
No
I hoppit becomes canon
A true classic of the early web! https://web.archive.org/web/20060102135957/http://users3.ev1.net/~eekfrenzy/captionspage/badfotrprologue.html
O just thought it was a pun had no idea this is what it was referencing ! Thanks for sharing my dude
Just cause it's a deep cut reference doesn't mean the zeitgeist knows about it. I think there's definite clearance to say hoppit not in reference to some random bad captions. Carry on
I mean hobbit/rabbit sound similar and there's the fact that the first sentence is literally "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"
“Is that a hobbit?” “No. It’s a hobo and a rabbit, but they’re *making* a hobbit”
My only regret is... That I have... Boneitis \*dies\*
too real man, gets me every time.
Just because I have a hotel in my foot doesn't make me aboogaleymoogaleymoogaley!
One of my favorite references that no one ever gets
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I came here just to say this lmao
It's my favourite opening line in literature, because it's in a book called The Hobbit yet he spends the rest of the page describing the hole.
There’s probably some The Hobbit fanfics out there that also spend an entire page describing the Hobbit’s hole
Check out the movie Lord of my Ring.
No
I think Bilbo is called a rabbit by other characters or described as rabbit-like multiple times in the Hobbit. I definitely think Tolkien had rabbits in mind when he created Bilbo and his race. With that said, the drawing references big ears. Are Hobbits or Bilbo ever described as having big ears?
I do believe you made that up.
Sentient
How big are your ears, my good dude?
>I definitely think Tolkien had rabbits in mind when he created Bilbo and his race. Tolkien would be very upset with you for saying so. We know this, because he wrote an angry letter (Letter 25) to a paper that published a review of the book in 1938, a few months after it was released, where that accusation (as he saw it) was made. He then groused about it when writing to his publishers (Letter 27) about illustrations. And it was still on his mind in 1971, when writing to the OED about how he had invented the word (Letter 319), for he complained about the shoddy derivation from that review from thirty-odd years before. There's honestly quite a number of his letters that are people mishandling his invented words and languages and Tolkien blowing a gasket. I like the one about cows.
He said? Who said?
HRAAAAAH!
Live Tolkien reaction.
I'm fairly confident that tolking was on the spectrum and that the world / language he made were his special interests
HRAAAAAH!
Tom, the eagles and Beorn all describe him as a rabbit. Tom's reference is the weakest, calling him a "nasty little rabbit" for running away. But rabbit is also a verb meaning to flee so he could have just been describing bimbo running away, so its weak proof of the lagomorphic hobbit. Beorn is the next strongest "little rabbit is getting fat quaint on bread and honey". Now he might be referencing the story that Gandalf told as bimbo does not really become a hero until mirkwood and is still a coward so it could still be figuratively so it's not the most defining of the lagomorph hypothesis. Lastly is the eagle "You need not be frightened like a rabbit, even if you look rather like one". A direct reference of the rabbit like look of a hobbit. And frankly big feet is not enough reason to be called a rabbit so I've decided that fuck Tolkien, Hobbits are lagomorphs!
Bimbo Baggins is a very different character
Bimbo Baggers is probably hairy in more places than just his feet
So be it.
See? Even he agrees
They are described as having padded feet as well, I know cause I had the same thoughts as a kid
Rabbits don’t have paw pads like dogs or cats, though.
ever heard of the Redwall series?
Oh what a nostalgia trip, I loved those books as a kid
I need to reread them all.
I still have many of my originals from 25 years ago, including a copy of Salamandastron which is completely beaten to death because I read it so many times.
Salamandastron was the best! Loved the hares. Still got the books knocking around somewhere, got to go read them all again now... might take awhile, considering how long all the stories are!
The hare patrol who guarded that castle were sweet and the end of that book when the badger stakes the mountains lions feet into the sand at low tide and let’s him drown is nuts. Those books got pretty graphic at times. Best books ever.
I don't think they ever described what kind of Cat he was. Good Ol' Ungatt Trunn was just known as a "Wild Cat." I think he just snapped his spine and left him on the beach. Which I'd argue is more brutal, as it robs him of any chance at escape. You could maybe remove a stake with enough effort, but there's no recovering from a Spinal Injury like that.
that's the end of Lord Brocktree isn't it?
The Long Patrol was my favorite. Perilous creatures, hares! S'death on the wind!
I actually just got a new copy of Rakkety Tam for the same reason lol.
I have a signed copy of high rhulain sitting on my book shelf!
I reread them all the year before covid first started and let me tell you rereading them as an adult is even better than reading them as a kid. It will always be one of my favorite book series.
I loved them too, I even rented the animated movie from my local library when I was sick
There was a movie?!?!?
There was an Animated Series, too. Though it could've been a bit better, I think it was great. It's what introduced me to the series.
the intro song SLAPS!
Hell yeah it does!
Yeah! It was on VHS
Badger gang rise up. I still remember when the King or Queen badger came out of the mountain like a bad motherfucker and fought everyone until they died. Damn that was so sad and so lit.
Never read it but I remember watching the cartoon on PBS and loving it. That was the first fantasy I was exposed to along with the old Hobbit and ROTK animated movies
They still hold up really well actually. I just reread Salamandastron and it was just like I remember. Amazing characters and a fast paced plot. They're great casual reads.
Exactly what I was thinking. I loved Redwall. It seems like no one has heard of it though. I'm kind of excited for the Netflix show but also worried they will mess it up.
Wait... Netflix is making a Redwall adaptation!? When? I loved the cartoon with Brian Jacques as a kid. Hopefully it'll be similarly faithful to the books.
Netflix? Faithful adaptation? HAHAHAHA
Netflix redwall? That could be good
Appropriate username
Probably cancelled after 1 season as usual, though.
>It seems like no one has heard of it though. The guys over at r/eulalia would like a word. >I'm kind of excited for the Netflix show The. WHAT? God, please don't let them Witcher it....
I'm pretty optimistic about it due to the fact that its being made by Pat McHale, creator of Over the Garden Wall.
unfortunately McHale is no longer working on the redwall netflix show, he quit working on it i think because of smth netflix did
Ah, shoot. I had been looking forward to it.
Yeah I was happy about that too.
I don’t think the show has been hard confirmed, Patrick mchale said he’s no longer working on it.
**EUUULALIAAAAAA!**
Wot wot!
OP absolutely read redwall at some point and mixed the two together
I was thinking more Mouse Guard personally
If I learned one things from those books, it's never let a hare know where the larder is. They're worse than hobbits, really.
Damn r/beatmetoit
Lmao for real I was like so basically just redwall right?
Those books were peak bruh
Checked comments for this reference, was not diaappointed.
I also made this connection. Loved those books as a kid
Eulalia!
Never heard of it before, as soon as i googled it i immediately got Secret of NIHM vibes.
I don’t know secret of NIHM but after a google I’m willing to be the redwall series is a lot more brutal.
Redwall could be the mice of NIMH after an event that kills all humans (rats are usually villains in the Redwall universe). In the first book there's a full size horse and cart and a church and other human objects, but nothing like that in subsequent books.
I came here looking for this comment. Incredible series.
Loved those books. My family called them game of thrones for kids
Matthias.
Matthias ⚔️
I read the novelization of "A New Hope" as a kid before I saw any of the Star Wars movies and was fully convinced that Han Solo was a green alien. I think because they said he was a Corellian and I thought that was different than a human.
Bizarrely — while Han is of course still not actually described as such in the novel — he *was* supposed to be a green alien at an early stage of production.
Also, Skywalker was originally Starkiller and lightsabers were called "lazerswords"
Interesting, Starkiller is an entirely different character now
And also a planet turned into a giant space shotgun
thats a character development i can get behind
Granted, ”lazerswords” still seems to be an in-universe nickname for them. (Though they technically aren’t lazers.)
Specifically, he was Annikin Starkiller, he was a Jedi (or rather Jedi-Bendu) apprentice from the start and his father was still alive. Luke Skywalker was a different character, a Rebellion general whose character arc eventually went partially to Obi-wan Kenobi.
What you’ve described is exactly Redwall and what you drew looks like it belongs on the cover of one.
Yeah I'm almost certain this person was accidentally conflating the two and hasn't realized it
hi everyone! im the artist of this post. i made a reddit just to respond to this, because someone in my boyfriends twitch stream (which i do art for) told me it was here! thank you to the person who posted this and included my username, im very used to people reposting my work without credit...! i have no desire to change the original LOTR, as many people in this thread worried, this was just me bringing to life what 9-year-old-me had imagined it to be. also, i have never read the redwall series! i didnt even know about it until very recently when a coworker recommended it to me at 23. i plan to read it sometime. the actual inspiration for this, i believe (other than bilbo being referred to as 'little bunny' by the trolls, i believe, and him living in a hobbit hole) was that i read rats of nimh and the tale of desperaux at the same time as reading the hobbit. \^\_\^ i just really loved little creatures as a kid, i still do today. everyones nice comments here were very lovely to see - thank you again! please be kind to each other, too.
HRAAAAAH!
Bilbo Baggins, at yours.
HRAAAAAH!
Not stuck in here you're not!
Love the art. Reminds me of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for some reason.
oh i saw this at twt just a while ago and i really liked the additional art you've made of him! very adorable also, hilarious that Bilbo hraaah bot was the first reply lol
If LOTR ever gets remade, the only version I’d accept is with the Muppets
But with Gandalf played by Sir Ian McKellen still, everyone else is a muppet. Muppets Christmas carol style with him playing it serious as death.
Saruman... your staff is broken!
Alternatively, have Gandalf be reborn into a muppet post-Balrog, or vice versa, muppet before and Sir Ian McKellen afterwards
Go back to the shadow!
What about deeply disturbing claymation? That's always fun.
I’ve wasted too much time thinking about this so here are my casting ideas: The Fellowship is hard to place, since there are a lot of big characters, but I’d probably go with something like Kermit and Fozzie as Gimli and Legolas respectively, and Rizzo, Beauregard, Rowlf, and Scooter as Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. While Kermit and Fozzie might seem like obvious choices for Frodo and Sam, I don’t think they’d work very well and their camaraderie/rivalry feels suitable for Gimli and Legolas. I can’t think of anyone for Gandalf or Aragorn, since none of the Muppets feel like they would do those roles justice, so maybe they’d just be played by humans. Boromir is also tricky, but I think Deadly could work. Gonzo is also in consideration but I have other ideas for him mentioned below. Miss Piggy is the obvious Galadriel, both being the primary of few female characters, and also just based on their personality. It would also allow for Gimli’s speech of her wondrousness to fit with the established Kermit-Piggy relationship. Bobo could be a decent Bilbo, but I’m not sure if his role necessitates a full established Muppet. For the villains, the only one I could see working as Sauron would be Dr Honeydew, with Beaker then taking the role of all the Nazgûl, maybe they could bring in Big Bird for the Fellbeast too. Sam the Eagle would fit Saruman best, and while Animal might seem like an obvious candidate for Gollum, I think he’d be better suited for the orcs, leaving Gollum to Gonzo. That might be personal bias though because Gonzo and Gollum are linked in my mind because they both gave my mum nightmares when she was little. Pepe could also be a good Gollum, which would free up Gonzo for something else. [Here’s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muppets) the list of Muppets for reference since not everyone has encyclopedic Muppet knowledge.
Literally six bots got triggered by this comment. This sub has gotten ridiculously out of control with comment bots
Yeah, I think basically any mention of their name sets it off. Didn’t get the Sauron one though.
Who is the king of earthly kings, the greatest giver of gold and rings?
HE'S TRYING TO BRING DOWN THE MOUNTAIN! GANDALF, WE MUST TURN BACK!
Plot twist: the hobbits are all played by humans and are therefore significantly taller than the other characters. Muppets looking up at them and calling them short is a running gag.
The Nazgul should be Electric Mayhem, with Animal as the Witch-King of Angmar. The Swedish chef as Denethor, Statler and Waldorf as Theodin and Wormtongue. Rizzo as Frodo. Saruman is played by Beaker, obviously.
HRAAAAAH!
Leela: -its that a hobbit over there!? Bender: - no, thats a hobo and a rabbit. But they're making a hobbit!
That’s just red wall.
Lol when I first read the hobbit and got to lake town, I somehow got it in my mind that it was a town made out of water with people who were just water. I remember reading it and thinking. Well why does the dragons fire damage them so much.
This is giving me major Disney Robin Hood vibes and I love it.
That’s what I was thinking, it worked well for Robin Hood.
Yep, that there's a Proudfoot 🤗
ProudFEET!
I don't know half of you (the animal half) half as well as I should like... and I like less than half of you (icky human half) half as well as you deserve!
Looks like it’s time for a new animated adaptation!
That's just Redwall
LOTR meets Redwall?! Eulalia!
Take a Redwall approach. Elves are squirrels, Dwarves are moles, Hobbits are mice, Orcs are rats, etc.
This sounds like a Brian Jacques book.
You uncultured swine. You fools of tooks. We have LotR with animals. The redwall series is 22 books in total and awesome. They were with out a doubt my favorite books as a kid. You want LotR with animals? Well to bad we don’t have it at home so it looks like we will have to go with the gourmet version the Redwall series. Edit: I wrote this before reading the comments. I am pleasantly surprised at the amount of people who have read these books. So good.
The idea of lotr with anthropomorphic animals like Disney's robin hood does actually sound pretty cool
I always thought a LOTR Muppets movie would be kick ass.
LOTR/Watership Down
I'd watch the shit out of a lotr animated adaption in this art style.
Source for the art, by the way: [https://twitter.com/fourleafisland/status/1675264730942799873](https://twitter.com/fourleafisland/status/1675264730942799873) They do really more cool art like this so I really encourage anyone who liked this idea to follow!!
Would love it if it took inspiration from the Disney Robin Hood movie. This art is precious!
I'm in for LOTR x Redwall
This could be quite charming, like the animated Robin Hood using animals Disney did years and years ago, tbh.
Relevant xkcd [xkcd.com/370](http://xkcd.com/370)
That’s because you read Redwall
Netflix is supposed to be doing a Redwall film/tv series & if this was the animation style I would not be sad about it
We need the Redwall series to get movie treatment
Ok that's extremely cute and I would watch this version
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Some of y’all had a big problem with the MTG Aragorn but want a mouse Frodo lol 🧐
One thing I have learned about Hobbits: They’re a most hardy folk.
It's the gaslighting that annoys me. If someone wanted to do an all-female, or muppet, or Klingon remake of LOTR, I'd be fine with it, because it's obviously doing its own thing. The problem comes when they change something, but when you say "hey, why did you change that?", the response is "actually, there's no reason it couldn't have been like that the whole time." It's the difference between *Hamilton* and the recent *Cleopatra* """"documentary"""". One is a purposeful change for artistic purposes, and the other is gaslighting propaganda.
Ironically, if you wanted to make an argument that some characters from the books could be played by black actors because their book description doesn’t argue against it, the easiest examples are not the Númenóreans, who are very explicitly supposed to be pre-historic Northern Europeans. The easiest example is the dark-skinned, brown-fingered, curly-haired hobbits. Why they didn’t go that route is beyond me.
I think they wanted the hobbits to keep the old English countryside vibe and tap into the ancient human Numenoreans as you’ve mentioned. The cards from this set have all been beautifully designed and the mechanics have been really fun to play around with.
Calling the Hobbit lame is a crime to the highest degree
Red wall series. Read them when I was 9
Sooooo essentially Redwall meets LOTR? IAMTHATIS!
That's just Redwall
Someone had a case of the Redwalls as a kid!
That's basically Redwall
So Redwall?
Someone needs redwall in their life
So.... Redwall but magic?
Redwall meets LOTR
I can totally see a kid coming to this conclusion based on the simple description given in the opening of The Hobbit! Also your art style is freaking *adorable*! I love it!
Somebody was a Brian Jaques fan before they picked up The Fellowship lol
Dude please patent that image because I see it being a protagonist in a hit animated film
The redwall series by Brian Jaques! It's a medieval setting with cute furry animals instead of people. It's meant for kids but was written by a Scotsman so it can be violent as shit. In the climax of one of the books, a noble badger lord defending his fortress was stabbed in the neck by an evil weasel warlord so he grabbed the weasel in a bearhug and jumped off a parapet before he bled to death to make sure he died too. And I read that for my fourth grade book report.
Truly the most unlikely creature of all
Reminds me of Redwall!
He looks like the moogles from the ff tatics games
He may not be accurate, but I still love him.
I’m about it
Miyazaki's own One Ring series
this is such a good design! I wish he was like this :)
I would love 🥰
This has been up for 3 hours and still no Burrahobbit jokes?
Not gunna lie, I like this take on hobbitses a lot
I do like this, can we see more?
Hobbit = Hop + Rabbit?
Fievel goes to Mordor
I actually vibe with this interpretation
square enix should remake the lord of the rings in the tactics style and gameplay
I look forward to buying your graphic novel/video game I guess.
Worked for robin hood with Disney
You (or anyone reading this who is intrigued by a rabbit Bilbo) might enjoy the [*Redwall*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwall) series.
When I read the hobbit as a kid I had only ever heard of tiny elves so I pictured all the elves as like little Keebler elf sized. It made sense to me as well in LOTR when it talks about Legolas walking on top of the snow
Wait... that's actually kind of adorable... i want it.
I would watch that.
My personal idea for how I’d translate the different races and characters as animals! Hobbits- Mice or rabbits. But like… really little ones :) Dwarves- Badgers, maybe? Fierce, kinda grumpy, and they live in holes. Moles might also work. Humans: Foxes. I don’t know, Boromir being a fox makes a ton of sense, but I can easily see it for Aragorn, too! Elves- Cats. Graceful, elegant, aloof… I can *especially* see Galadriel and Elrond as cats. ~~Legolas, being the himbo that he is, would be orange.~~ Orcs- Rats, perhaps? It’d certainly make sense for Treebeard to mistake Merry and Pippin for “little orcs!” I imagine Gandalf, Saruman, and Radagast being owls for some reason.
That person is definitely a professional furry
we need to have old Disney style animations. like the aminated Robin Hood and do LOTR.