The Hobbit in July 2007?

[Rikae]

Originally Posted by Essex

So I think it's what version you first heard or saw, be it the Cartoon, radio of Film adaptation, is where you have your 'definitive' version from. So for Gollum's voice to change if Serkis does not reprise his role would not be a great loss to me, even though he did an excellent job in PJ's lotr.

Well, not true in my case. I saw the cartoon version at 4 or 5, before even reading the book, saw it several more times later on, & always disliked that Gollum. I was expecting to hate the one in PJ's version as well, but instead I thought he was better than I could have imagined.