i will ignore the obviously superior film by peter jackson when evaluate this low budget cartoon . so . i think that the team behind this have a success with the hobbit and even though the animation be horrible . orcs do not look like toad and elrond do not have a goatie and star around his head and gollum do not look like a fish etc . ( even if it get worse here when the skeletor nazguls show up ) still and the hobbit ( 1977 ) work in my mind ( i give it an 8 vote here ) and glenn song be great there and the voice be very good and the story be a child story and my 4 yr old girl love it ( i saw it for the first time just a month ago ) . so and the hobbit be great . how can this fail so miserably . of course and the whole idea of omit almost everything in the fellowship of the ring and the two tower do not work very well . who be this aragorn dude who be make king . we feel nothing for him . galadriel . whatever . theoden . some guy who fall from a horse and dy . he should have have a good horse . eowyn . some random girl who get lucky . glenn song be also bad in this one and include only two number i really like ( frodo of nine finger and where there a whip ) . the folksong seem much well suit to the child story in the hobbit . i give this a 4 . only because it be still tolkien somewhere there in the background . it be still the battle of pelennor field ( and they do not show it just like dot a they do in the battle of five army ) . perhaps i be be too kind to the film . and whoever decide to make sam a christian . that be just plain weird . have say that and the film work best when it deviate from the original story and a with the singing orcs and the dream sequence with the wave orcs or when sam conquers mordor . this film be only for the die hard tolkien fanatic who just have to see it . i do not think i will even show it to my daughter .