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Since everyone is so delighted with the Soviet "Lord of the Rings" that Channel Five has put online, I suggest watching the Soviet "Hobbit" as well, with a more starry cast and a truly epic Gollum

Alexandr Radayev

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Since everyone is so delighted with the Soviet "Lord of the Rings" that Channel Five has put online, I suggest watching the Soviet "Hobbit" as well, with a more starry cast and a truly epic Gollum. Zinovy Gerdt is the narrator, Ivan Krasko is Gandalf, Mikhail Danilov is the Hobbit. The television play "The Guardians", which appeared on YouTube today, was adapted for the screen in 1991, whereas the television play "The Fairy-Tale Journey of Mr Bilbo Baggins, Hobbit, through the Wild Country, the Black Forest and the Misty Mountains. There and Back Again. After John Tolkien's fairy-tale story 'The Hobbit'" was filmed as early as 1985, and had been staged at the Saint Petersburg Theatre for Young Spectators (TYuZ) in 1979.

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