I have vague, terrified memories of watching the Rankin/Bass *Hobbit *movie in first grade back in…uh…1986, but it obviously didn’t make me into the fan I’ve become. I hardly remember anything about it other than Bilbo climbing the tallest tree in Mirkwood and the spiders.

My next introduction to Tolkien went much better when our 7th grade class got assigned to read The Hobbit for language arts. From the first look at the map in the front of the book I was fascinated. I’d just started getting into (A)D&D and fantasy in general, and finding the wellspring from which much of that material came from was amazing. To this day, I think that The Hobbit is my favorite Tolkien book. I’ve read most everything Middle-Earth related outside of the HoME series, but the tone and the nostalgia of The Hobbit makes it special.

Sure. I’m pretty new at mixing and this set is from a few months back when I had even less skill and practice, but I like it. It was made for the latest r/classictrance competition, so it’s classic trance. Enjoy!

https://hearthis.at/djhyland/hey-kid-wanna-buy-some-trance/

Yeah, rough him up a bit. Maybe hit his head on the car roof.