MILTON BRADLEY: 1978 The Hobbit Game

Featuring a wingless Smaug on his treasure pile rolling onto his back to show an arrow in a bloody wound

Is this really real?
:O

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9228/hobbit-adventures-bilbo-middle-earth-lord-rings

No one would just lie about stuff on the Internet – This game does use an odd combination of imagery, some of which is borrowed from Bakshi’s 1978 LotR movie, like the pose of Gandalf and Bilbo on the stand-up back panel, cribbed from Gandalf and Frodo on one of the movie posters  In fact, all 4 of the Bilbo playing pieces in this game are recolored versions of Bakshi’s Frodo.  What passes for Smaug seems to be unique to this game:

The 7-12 age range seems a little high for a game this simple, but it might have gotten a bump for the 3D stand-up bleeding out monster.

I knew a kid who had this game up on a high shelf and would never let us take it down or play it

Ralph Bakshi’s animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy, The Lord Of The Rings – charting the now familiar journey of Hobbit Frodo, who is tasked with destroying the One Ring, with the help of a fellowship of hearty adventurers – animated screens on November 15, 1978.

Concept art::

Ralph Bakshi’s  The Lord of the Rings

My future self trying to remind my past self to pick up some cheez-its at the grocery store

Orcs

-Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings (1978)

Sixties Rock Band in Ralph Bakshi’s Spider-man

Peace by Tommy Pons

From Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards

Wizards