Abrams

Abrams barked.

Abrams chased Browne.

Abrams handed Browne the cigarette.

Abrams handed the cigarette to Browne.

Abrams bet Browne a cigarette that it had rained.

Abrams knew that it rained.

Abrams intended to bark.

Abrams intended Browne to bark.

Abrams bet Browne a cigarette that it would rain.

Abrams bet Browne a cigarette that it was going to rain.

The animation, in a style somewhere between Arthur Rackham’s and Disney gothic, is handsome enough to have furnished publisher Harry Abrams with a new, coffee-table edition of “The Hobbit,” and the voices of the characters—Orson Bean, John Huston, Richard Boone, Cyril Ritchard and Brother Theodore—are as distinctive as you’d want for this odd assortment of Middle-earthians.