{"id":36833,"date":"2010-05-27T19:57:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=36833"},"modified":"2010-05-27T19:57:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:57:24","slug":"scans-and-video-of-soviet-era-version-of-the-hobbit-unearthed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/05\/27\/36833-scans-and-video-of-soviet-era-version-of-the-hobbit-unearthed\/","title":{"rendered":"Scans and video of Soviet-era version of &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; Unearthed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/russian_hobbit.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"russian_hobbit\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36835 no-lazyload\" \/>Nothing like seeing a mention of &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; on Boing Boing, one of my favorite geek blogs! They published a link to a blog called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/englishrussia.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/27\/russian-lord-of-the-rings\/\">English Russia<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Someone published scans of amazing woodblock illustrations from a Russian version of &#8220;The Hobbit.&#8221; The style is extremely distinctive and very stylized. The Gollum illustration is one of the coolest interpretations I&#8217;ve ever seen. Graphically it looks to be from the &#8217;30&#8217;s &#8211; but perhaps some Tolkien scholar out there knows better? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The best part of the &#8220;find&#8221; is at the bottom of the page where there are three videos from a Russian stage production of &#8220;The Hobbit.&#8221; Possibly from the &#8217;80&#8217;s, but who knows? Either way &#8211; it&#8217;s entertaining. Gandalf is all sparkly, and apparently what differentiates Bilbo as a Hobbit is his stripey Hogwarts scarf and fisherman-style cap.  (Essentially, knitwear and a pink shirt was Hobbit-like to the Russians.) <\/p>\n<p>Check it out! <a href=\"http:\/\/englishrussia.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/27\/russian-lord-of-the-rings\/\">http:\/\/englishrussia.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/27\/russian-lord-of-the-rings\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing like seeing a mention of &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; on Boing Boing, one of my favorite geek blogs! They&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[240,87,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stage","category-events-television","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-9A5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}