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| == Hobit (1989 Slovak radio series) - temporary, in development article ==
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| '''''Hobit''''' (Slovak: '''The Hobbit''') was a [[wikipedia:Slovakia|Slovak]] radio adaptation based on ''[[The Hobbit]]''. It first aired in [[1989]] as a two-part radio miniseries on the [[wikipedia:Slovenský rozhlas|Slovak division]] of Czechoslovakia's then public broadcaster, [[wikipedia:Czech_Radio#Czechoslovak_era|Československý rozhlas]].
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| This was a fairly basic radio series, with a relatively small cast, and various accompanying incidental music and sound effects. Each of the two episodes of the ''Hobit'' radio series had a runtime of about 40 minutes.
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| It is not known whether the adaptation was approved by the [[Tolkien Estate]] (many former East Bloc television and radio adaptations were not).
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| The series was adapted for radio by dramaturge Ľuboš Machaj and directed by Táňa Tadlánková. The incidental music for the series was composed by Jozef Malovec.
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| ==Episodes==
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| The series aired in two episodes.
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| # Part 1 (covers the story from "[[An Unexpected Party]]" to "[[Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire]]")
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| # Part 2 (covers the story from "[[Queer Lodgings]]" to "[[The Last Stage]]")
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| ==Plot==
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| The series follows the storyline of ''[[The Hobbit]]'' fairly closely.
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| However, due to the relatively short running time of the miniseries, there are also some major ommissions from the storyline. This is particularly noticeable in the second episode, which adapts the majority of the chapters, after the company of adventurers conclude their passing of the [[Misty Mountains]].
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| Major omissions include Beorn and the company's stay at his house, as well as no appearance by the giant spiders of Mirkwood. Táňa Tadlánková
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| ==Cast==
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| | [[Bilbo Baggins]] || Peter Bzdúch
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| | [[Gandalf]] || Karol Machata
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| | [[Thorin Oakenshield]] || Ľubomír Roman
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| | [[Thorin and Company|Dwarves of Thorin's Company]] || Boris Farkaš <br> Marián Zednikovič <br> Alfréd Swann <br> Peter Debnár <br> various
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| | [[Great Goblin]] || uncredited actor <br> (apparently Karol Čálik)
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| | [[Elrond]] ||
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| | [[Gollum]] || Karol Čálik
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| | [[Smaug]] || Vlado Černý
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| | [[Roäc]] || Ivan Krivosudský
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| |Additional voices <br> and background voices ||
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| Karol Machata's Gandalf also serves as the overarching narrator of the storyline. He provides the introduction in the first episode, and later has some narrator asides while he is away from Bilbo, Thorin and Company for longer periods. This is particularly pronounced in the second episode of this miniseries, when Gandalf has to leave for his errands, while Bilbo and the dwarves enter Mirkwood and continue their journey.
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| The dwarves in Thorin's Company are not credited, and they are not easily identifiable by their radio actor due to many of them having slightly modulated voices. It's possible several of the dwarves were portrayed by a single actor, with only a small pool of the play's actors portraying all thirteen dwarves.
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| ''(An approach similar to that of the [[The Lord of the Rings (1955 radio series)|1955 BBC radio series]].)''
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| == Credits ==
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| * Based on the works by: [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
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| * Dramaturge: Ľuboš Machaj
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| * Directed by: Táňa Tadlánková
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| * Music: Jozef Malovec (composer of scenic music)
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| * Sound engineer: Róbert Bartoš
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| This radio play does not have a theme song with lyrics, nor any audibly read titles.
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| == Music ==
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| Some of the recognisable themes and leitmotifs in the radio series. =
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| === Themes ===
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| * Main Theme / The Hobbit Theme
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| * Lonely Mountain Theme (also used in the Misty Mountains song)
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| * Mirkwood and Woodland Realm Theme
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| * Battle of the Five Armies Theme
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| === Adapted songs ===
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| The play adapts [[Far over the misty mountains cold]] in a heavily abbreviated version, which the dwarves sing several times throughout the radio play. The lyrics are also more of a loose translation/interpretation of the novel's original lyrics. They do not examine the backstory of the dwarves' exile from Erebor in-depth.
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| Work in progress.
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| == Translation and terms ==
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| Work in progress.
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| Though a Slovak radio production, it was in development already months before the Slovak book translation of ''The Lord of the Rings'' by Otakar Kořínek (2001-2002) was first published by Slovart Publishing. This necessitated an inability to use the translated Slovak terminology from Kořínek's not-yet-published translation, and the need to borrow and appropriately slovakize terminology from the slightly earlier Czech translation of the novel by Stanislava Pošustová (first published in the 1990s). It is important to note that the radio series' terminology is thus similar to that of the Czech translation, but not following it verbatim and often altered to varying degrees.
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| This creates a certain level of disparity with the (as of the early 2010s, near-complete) Slovak translations of Tolkien's Legendarium, but the different terminology used by the radio series is not hard to identify with the Slovak translations' own consistent terminology.
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| Many of the Czech translations for geographic terms in the Legendarium that were adopted for the radio series differ only slightly from the Slovak translations. For example, the Czech translation's ''Kraj'' ("County"), ''Hůrka'' ("Little-hill") and ''Roklinka'' ("Little Ravine") compared to the Slovak translation's ''Grófstvo'' ("Shire", "County", in the British sense), ''Svažiny'' ("Hillside" or "Slopings") and ''Vododol'' ("Water-cloven Dell") for [[The Shire]], [[Bree]] and [[Rivendell]], respectively. <ref>A common popular misconception about Kořínek's Slovak translation is that it misunderstood ''Riven-'' as "river", but this is actually incorrect. The ''Vodo-'' half of the invented term only refers to the waters of the river flowing through Rivendell, the water that cloved the dell into a canyon-like space over the millennia. The ''-dol'' suffix is a poetic word derived from ''dolina'' ("valley", "dell"), directly equivalent to English "dell" or "dale". Similarly, the city and kingdom of Dale in Kořínek's translation of ''The Hobbit'' is ''Údol'', from ''údolie'', "valley", "dale".</ref> ''Kraj'' and ''Roklinka'' were borrowed directly for the Slovak radio series, and ''Hůrka'' was modified to ''Hôrka'' to fit with Slovak grammar and pronunciation rules.
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| One of the more excessive and controversial elements of the Czech translation's terminology carried over into the Slovak radio series was the consistent use of ''Železný pás'' (in Czech, ''Železný pas'', "Iron Girdle") to refer to [[Isengard]]. The Czech translation refers to Isengard as "Iron Girdle", despite Tolkien's own insistence that this is one of the many geographic terms that shouldn't be translated.
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| Finally, possibly the greatest terminological difference occurs with the terms "orc" and "orcs".
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| Pošustová's Czech translations render orcs as ''skřeti'' ("goblins", "dread-goblins", singular ''skřet''), whereas Kořínek's Slovak translations use the term ''ohyzdi'' (derived from the words ''ohyzdnosť'' and ''ohyzdný'', "foulness" and "foul-looking", singular ''ohyzd'', with the "o-" initial as in "orc"). Viktor Krupa's older Slovak translation of the ''The Hobbit'' (1970s) and Kořínek's newer Slovak translation of ''The Hobbit'' both use ''škriatok'' and ''škriatkovia'' ("goblin" and "goblins") when referring to goblins (as the original novel also essentially never uses the term "orc"). The Czech translation and Slovak translation also altered the term [[Uruk-Hai|uruk-hai]], to ''skurut-hai'' and ''uhyz-hai''. <ref>Czech and Slovak are the only two European languages with translations of the Legendarium that also translate the term for orcs, rather than merely phonetize it.</ref>
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| Due to the then-inavailability of Kořínek's Slovak translation, the radio series opted to adopt an invented term, ''skirt'' (pron. roughly "skeert" in English), derived from an altered form of the Czech translation's ''skrět''. The plural became, accordingly, ''skirti''. This is reflected even in the title of the first episode of the second series, ''Prenasledovanie skirtov'' ("The Pursuit of the Skeerts", i.e. "The Pursuit of the Orcs").
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| == Other notes ==
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| Some of the actors also appeared in the 2001-2003 Slovak radio adaptation of ''The Lord of the Rings''. These include Boriš Farkaš (as Aragorn), Andrej Hryc (as Saruman), Vlado Černý (as Radagast the Brown), Karol Čálik (as a hobbit),
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| Several of the actors also appeared in the Slovak television dubs of Peter Jackson's two film trilogies. For both the ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[The Hobbit (film series)|The Hobbit]]'' film trilogies, Marián Geišberg dubbed Bilbo Baggins, and Ivan Gogál dubbed Elrond. Boris Farkaš dubbed Gimli in ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy and Radagast the Brown (in a different voice) in ''The Hobbit'' film trilogy. Leopold Haverl provided the voice of Gandalf in ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy and Marián Slovák dubbed Gandalf in ''The Hobbit'' film trilogy. Slovák also voiced Saruman in ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy and František Kovár voiced Saruman in ''The Hobbit'' film trilogy. Milan Bahúl appeared as Dwalin and Karol Čálik as Glóin in the dub of ''The Hobbit'' film trilogy.
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| {{References}}
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings#Radio 2001-2003 Slovak radio series] at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ English Wikipedia]
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| * [https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2021/04/09/the-slovakian-radio-hobbit-1989/ English-language review of the radio miniseries] by Daniel Stride of the A Phuulish Fellow blog
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