Hobbit Characters As Cartoons Are Delightfully Rankin-Bass-Like

Artist Francisco Guerrero has been working on a project transforming all the characters from The Lord of the Rings into cartoon characters, and the results are a sweet mix of Disney and Rankin-Bass, who were responsible for the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit. After the jump, even more characters from both of his most recent collections.

More hobbits, starting with Samwise:

Merry and Pippin:

Gimli the elf:

Gollum:

Galadriel:

Gandalf (man, Tolkien used a lot of “g” names)

Saruman:

And finally, the very Disney Prince-looking Legolas:

Geek Tyrant also has Guerrero’s notes on each character (here are the descriptions for the first collection).

(via Geek Tyrant)

Previously in The Hobbit

• We Only Have One Year Until The Hobbit
• New Pics From the Set of The Hobbit Include a Dwarf, a Skeleton, and a Lush Middle Earth
• So, Yeah, The Hobbit Producers Kinda Forgot to Ask Viggo Mortensen to Play Aragorn