24 Years Before Peter Jackson, This Was the Best Middle-earth Adaptation

Before Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, the 1977 animated Hobbit captured Tolkien’s tone and storytelling better than most adaptations.
Daily Express

All 10 Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films ranked - top three were all made in the 2000s

A new ranking published by a self-professed Lord of the Ringsexpert, places all 10 of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films in order, from the 1977 animated Hobbit to the latest The War of the ...
IGN

Hobbit, The

The movie was done in 1977 and meant for TV, and judging by the quality of other TV animation during that time, The Hobbit is pretty damn good. As a matter of fact many of the animators who worked on ...