The Hobbit

The Hobbit, full title The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, Across the Wild Land, Through the Dark Forest, Beyond the Misty Mountains. There and Back Again is a 1985 Soviet television play for children. It is a loose adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit by Vladimir Latyshev. The play was shot in 1984 as a teleplay and produced in the framework of the children's TV series Tale after Tale and aired at the Leningrad TV Channel in the 1980s and the 1990s. Plot The play follows Bilbo's journey with Thorin and the Dwarves, advised by Gandalf, to the Lonely Mountain. On the way they meet Gollum and the giant spiders of Mirkwood. The plot omits the three Trolls, the party's stay in Rivendell with Elrond, their stay with Beorn, and their imprisonment by the Elvenking's Wood-Elves.