Readers here include many avid JRR Tolkien fans. Now, coming not long after the death of Christopher Tolkien (JRR's prolific son) comes a new fatality, Orson Bean:
Born July 22, 1928, Bean was a star of the small and big screen. [...] He is also one of the first actors to portray a hobbit, as he voiced both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in the Rankin/Bass animated TV films The Hobbit and The Return of the King in the late 1970s. Before Elijah Wood or Martin Freeman, Tolkien fans had Bean as the voice in their head while re-reading the novels.
Here are his entries on IMDb and Wikipedia.
Love them or hate them, the Rankin/Bass films & Bean's key roles in them defined the Tolkien experience for a generation of viewers.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday February 10 2020, @03:09AM (5 children)
Gentle introduction to racism, made into compelling movies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 10 2020, @04:16AM
Feels good when you can deflect the blame, isn't it?
Be a good sport and tell us next that James Bond [youtube.com] is a gentle introduction to sexism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 10 2020, @07:55AM
So then too are zombie movies -- oh fuck it, any movie with a bad guy is racist. I can't tell you how sick I am of hearing racist this, nazi that, ___phobe the other. Seriously, go out to see the dawn. Fucking TROLL.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by khallow on Monday February 10 2020, @08:43AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 10 2020, @04:11PM
Is this the orc thing?
It wuznt about their race, just culture.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dwilson on Monday February 10 2020, @05:31PM
I've heard that repeated quite a few times over the years. I disagree with the entire notion, myself.
My grandfather used to spend weeks at a time up in the mountains, panning for gold. He had a saying: Gold is where you find it.
And you know what? Sometimes, maybe racism is where you look for it. In the same sort of sense that a religious nutjob will find sin everywhere they go.
- D