Hobitit - The Hobbits | Bilbo (Episode 1)

Hobitit (The Hobbits) is a nine-part Finnish live action fantasy television miniseries directed by Timo Torikka, originally broadcast in 1993 on Yle TV1. Audio in Finnish with English subtitles.
Episode 2: https://www.bitchute.com/video/B1yg7TgGGnKp/

It is based on a six-hour play, The Lord of the Rings, put on by the Suomenlinna Group Theatre, with many of the same actors; the play was in turn an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". The series quite faithfully adapts the events until The Council of Elrond, and then focuses on the journey of the Hobbits Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee. Torikka chose to tell the story from the Hobbits' perspective, and it omits the parts where Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee are not present. The narrator is an older Sam, who tells his story to an audience of young Hobbits several years after the events of the War of the Ring.

Filming locations included the Ryhmäteatteri theatre in Helsinki and Yle's studio production facilities. Some sequences were shot out of doors with natural backgrounds, while a large number of scale models were used for scenes such as of the Shire and the village of Bree. Studio sequences were filmed using bluescreen, allowing landscapes to be added by chroma key compositing. The series was praised in the Finnish press. The Finnish Tolkien society wrote that Hobitit had captured the book's spirit and atmosphere, despite its small budget.

In the first episode, titled Bilbo, Sam provides a brief account of the origin of the One Ring and how it came into Gollum's possession. Bilbo Baggins finds the Ring and defeats Gollum in a game of riddles on his way to the Lonely Mountain.

Cast & Characters:
Taneli Mäkelä – Frodo Baggins
Pertti Sveholm – Samwise Gamgee
Jari Pehkonen – Peregrin Took
Jarmo Hyttinen – Meriadoc Brandybuck
Vesa Vierikko – Gandalf
Kari Väänänen – Gollum & Aragorn/Strider
Ville Virtanen – Legolas
Tomi Salmela – Gimli
Carl-Kristian Rundman – Boromir
Martti Suosalo – Bilbo Baggins
Esko Hukkanen – Tom Bombadil
Leif Wager – Elrond
Matti Pellonpää – Saruman
Mikko Kivinen – Barliman Butterbur