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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.
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Orson Bean, Actor Who Voiced Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, Dies at 91
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Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.
(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