Subtitles...and lots of them!

2/9/2016

NEW SUBTITLE FILES AVAILABLE ON THE DOWNLOADS PAGE

This has taken quite a bit of time and effort from a lot of people around the world, but we now have a solid collection of subtitles for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit! They are available in multiple languages too. So far we have English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Finnish, Swedish, Portuguese, and Hebrew. I have not been able to test them for accuracy, so I'll leave that up to you viewers. If you notice any major issues, please let me know and we'll try to get them fixed.

You'll notice that not every language is offered for the disc-based versions of the film. It's not a simple matter of just splitting the full subtitle file in half...the timestamps which determine when a line appears onscreen have to be completely re-timed for the second disc. So if you want to see accurate disc subs in your language, step up and volunteer!

Now I am not sure how you can add subtitles to a video file, or to an ISO file. I know it can be done, but I have never done it. If someone here would like to offer some advice or link to a tutorial somewhere, that would be awesome.

Lastly, I'd like to thank ALL the volunteers that helped make these subtitles available: Chad Mosby, Eric Olson, Bobby Fitzsimmons, Benjamin Marechal, Sandro Algra, Reijo Nyberg, PiNokKiO, Eric Odmyr, Simon Lydell, Nicolas Clavijo, Scarlett Buse, and others that contributed semi-anonymously. THANK YOU!!

38 Comments

Marek Tvrdý link

2/9/2016 12:47:45 pm

I'll sync Czech subtitles for complete and split versions in the future. But could You please find a way how to integrate them into DVD or better in BR version, please?

Do you have english subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery so I can sync a Czech version based on them?

Tomas

3/14/2021 07:16:41 pm

Sandro Algra

2/9/2016 03:24:55 pm

I've since found out how to split the subtitle file in two (pretty simple actually).

The Dutch subtitles can be found over here as two separate files: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5jrvi4a42t82g6h/AACkkwxWQGvmmlTYRt2oLDaTa?dl=0

Lukas

2/16/2016 11:14:37 am

Could you tell me how you did it? :D (i would like to do the same for the german subtitles)

2/16/2016 01:52:28 pm

First of all you need the software Subtitle Edit (that's what I used at least). Then follow these steps.

- Save two copies of the subtitle file and name them part 1 & part 2.
- In part 1: select all the dialogue of part 2 and delete it.
- In part 2: select all the dialogue of part 1 and delete it.
- In part 2: go to the menu Synchronization and select Adjust all times. You'll get a timer. Now it's just a matter of typing in the amount of hours, minutes, seconds and decimals you want to subtract (which is a little over 2 hours). Do it a few times until you get the result you want.

Eric Odmyr

2/10/2016 07:54:07 am

Jag har även gjort undertexter till Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery. Vet inte varför Dustin valde att inte inkludera dem på Downloads-sidan, men alla undertextfiler finns att hämta här:

http://tinyurl.com/TheHobbitSweSub

Förövrigt så hade jag lite problem med synkningen när jag använde undertexterna för DVD ISO-filerna tillsammans med Bluray ISO-filerna och vice versa. Jag vet inte om det bara var ett problem från min sida eller om andra kommer uppleva samma problem, men det är anledningen till att det finns flera olika versioner. Om den ena inte synkar korrekt för dig så använd bara den andra! Och om ni hittar några fel eller misstag så skriv bara här så ska jag fixa dem snarast!

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I also made Swedish subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery. Not sure why Dustin decided not to include them on the downloads page, but you'll find all the Swedish subtitle files here:

http://tinyurl.com/TheHobbitSweSub

And by the way - I had some syncing issues when using the subtitles for the DVD with the Bluray ISOs and vice versa. I don't know if that's just an issue on my end or if others will have the same issues, but that's why you'll find several different versions of the subtitles. If one doesn't sync up correctly for you then just use the other one! And if you find any errors or mistakes, just reply here and I'll fix them as soon as possible!

Björn

2/10/2016 10:16:39 am

jattedank. Tack!

Marek Tvrdy

2/12/2016 11:37:51 am

It seems that Dustin doesn't have english subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery. Do you have those?

2/16/2016 12:03:29 pm

No, I'm sorry, but I don't have English subtitles for it either. I had to make the Swedish subs from scratch.

Christoffer Hagelin

9/24/2019 10:47:09 am

Hello Eric!

I guess I am too late for this but if you ever see this can you update the link with the subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery? I Have googled for hours after it.

Eric Odmyr link

9/26/2019 03:17:01 am

Hej Christoffer!
Oops, I must have accidentally deleted it from my Dropbox at some point. Good thing you told me! Here's a new link with all the Swedish subtitles:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jmyz1dv69reczhq/JRR%20Tolkien%27s%20The%20Hobbit%20-%20Swedish%20Subtitles.rar?dl=1

Finwe link

2/18/2016 01:57:58 pm

Hello!! congratulations for this great work!!
Other editions (spanish and english editions availables) of The Hobbit here: http://elhobbiteditado.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/comparacion-de-ediciones-de-el-hobbit.html

Andrew H.

2/25/2016 02:38:16 am

Thank you so much for all the hard work! I was wondering if there were any subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery? Thanks. :)

Dustin

2/25/2016 06:35:42 am

At the moment we do not have English subs for Durin's Folk. If someone would like to volunteer for the job, that would be awesome!

Max B.

3/10/2016 05:22:48 am

Obviously before beginning all my thanks to Dustin Lee for his fantastic job.
Incorporate subtitles in Blu-ray iso is a big, big problem and I have not found a perfect solution, just a solution acceptable to see the film (but alas, I lose the menu Blu-ray).
I propose to you this solution:
1. Download the two iso files.
2. With MakeMKV extracting video and audio of each iso (are obtained 2 Mkv files of 25 go).
3. Take the 2 srt files prepared and place them in each folder MakeMKV.
4. Create Blu-ray files with DVDFab Blu-ray Creator, well check subtitles Fr.
5. Burn the files with BurnAware on a Blu-ray disc 25 go.
Sorry for my bad English … and a few small comments in French :
Un grand merci à la personne qui a préparé le fichier des sous-titres français.
Il est très bon sur la synchro, mais sur le texte quelques petites erreurs par ci par la et quelques notes de musiques curieuses que j’ai supprimées ! Mais ces fichiers srt ne sont jamais parfaits, on trouve toujours quelque chose à revoir.
Je les ai beaucoup modifiés pour avoir aussi le texte sur une seule ligne, de façon à ce que celle-ci se place dans la bande noire du bas de l’écran et non à cheval sur l’image, avec cette largeur d’image, on a de la place et il est inutile de se limiter à 43 caractères. J’ai modifié comme indiqué plus haut, le fichier original Fr avec Subtitle Edit pour obtenir les 2 fichiers correspondants aux iso Blu-ray 1 et 2.
Vous pouvez obtenir mes sous-titres Fr sur ce lien :
https://1fichier.com/?21nu8g9ubs

J’ai incorporé également le fichier srt pour la vidéo mp4 que j’ai modifié rapidement (ça doit être bon quand même).

Un grand plaisir avec ce film grâce à Dustin Lee...
Max

3/10/2016 10:57:33 pm

Sorry, as I feared a little, there were some errors on the file to mp4.
This is corrected, the old link is removed!

New subtitles Fr: https://1fichier.com/?fw5x862ve7

Simon

3/25/2016 07:23:13 am

Hi there!

First of all: A big thank you for your efford!
It's a very well done Fan-Edit (and i've seen lots of them...).

Now to my point:
I've done splitted german subs for the two BDs:

Disc 1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mg2z85q8swvhmda/jrr_tolkiens_the_hobbit_-_gersub_bluray_disc_1.srt?dl=0

Disc 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f8zug3en5pcw4n4/jrr_tolkiens_the_hobbit_-_gersub_bluray_disc_2.srt?dl=0

Tested and proved!

Share it, spread it, have fun with it!

Luisa

9/9/2016 06:30:29 am

Can someone make the Italian subtitles, please? I'd love to watch this fanedit, but my English is not that good. ):

geo

9/19/2016 11:13:21 am

fantastic version of hobbit- I really enjoyed it !
however there are some problems with subs.

someone didn't test thoroughly enough :) subs in bluray turn out well out of sync towards the end of each part.

also while the sub quality is overall great- there are very few minor errors in them- in all releases. heres the list of those few errors.

201 shield misspelled -- 1321 esgaroth misspelled
-- 1887 correct is prize instead of price--
2176 & 2230 "unsure" entries for curt elvish military commands that dont need translation--i removed them as nobody knows elvish really :P
2286 "unclear" > Nori

anyway ill upload subs for 1080p file and bluray discs-properly synced and with corrections i mentioned above.

9/19/2016 11:43:37 am

I include srt & sup thats why filesize is 18 MB.I really like how sup looks and i recommend it.

eng subs 1080p (1 part)
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlDKyYuAmgRsgp5xYirGaIY9gT276A

eng subs BR discs (2 parts) properly synced
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlDKyYuAmgRsgp5zkza2CMh12Ktyqw

9/20/2016 09:25:25 am

and finaly as a bonus heres a quick and bit rough transcipt for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery.It should help non native speakers if they have problems with some dialogue
or serve as a decent base to make subs.

https://1drv.ms/t/s!AlDKyYuAmgRsgp50aD8VXoWVEEDNlw

(i didnt write this-- its a fast copy paste from various sources)

TiboriAndrei

1/30/2017 12:51:28 am

I will translate the Enligsh subtitle to Romanian. Will post them here.

Deykuzor link

6/3/2018 12:38:42 am

I made an english rendition of subtitles for Durin's Folk and the Hill of Sorcery. It is based upon the timings of the Swedish translation, by Eric Odmyr before me, and also, things that are already in English on screen, (like subtitles for Black Speech and location names) are ignored. Anyway, you can find it on my website at this Url, right clicking and "Save As" will work, or you can just click it, ant it'll pull up a browser view of my work you can save onto your own subtitle formatter I guess. https://www.deckuzdomain.com/downloads/Durin%27s%20Folk%20and%20the%20Hill%20of%20Sorcery.srt

I've done some tweaks to the timings too for instances where English seemed a bit long to reuse the Swedish timings, or if something felt weird broken up a certain way.

Red_Robin04

2/20/2021 05:56:56 pm

Thank you!

6/3/2018 12:40:47 am

http://www.deckuzdomain.com/downloads/Durin%27s%20Folk%20and%20the%20Hill%20of%20Sorcery.srt

Removed the "http(s)" from my link, as it causes google to look for a security certificate I forgot to update. My bad. It's a personal student website.

Amdir

1/21/2020 10:17:58 am

Hey Deykuzor, I would like to thank you for your work, it is much appreciated!

Levi Anderson

6/23/2018 02:02:43 pm

Sorry, I'm not understanding how exactly to download the English.srt file from the downloads page. Can someone help me with this?

CHead2000

12/2/2019 07:34:06 am

Did anyone figure out how to incorporate subtitles so that they work with the subtitles option in the menu?

Poly

3/13/2020 04:51:22 am

Try using a multiplexer like MKVtool to merge the new srt into the sub menu

5/25/2020 01:20:35 pm

Hi. I've been having trouble trying to find info on the site on how to integrate the subtitle files (txt or SRT) into the Maple Films edit of The Hobbit DVD/Blu-Ray ISO file. Can anyone point me to info where I can accomplish this without having to reconvert the video into lesser quality? This is on Mac Catalina OSX FYI.

Sandro Lino

10/28/2020 10:11:04 am

Hi guys, I've made a subtitle in brazilian portuguese. Here's the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V-W62vTrLSeD0AytsjfzD5RPx_m8q2VF/view?usp=sharing
(Fala galera, eu fiz uma legenda pro filme em pt br)

Edoardo

6/1/2021 03:51:14 pm

I am patiently compiling subtitles in Italian.
Will post them when ready

6/23/2021 11:17:03 am

Italian subtitles available at this address

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rwWTZSSpKOK4nsLrkjKw5iTh1MtVIYvc?usp=sharing

Tidus

8/18/2021 06:25:07 pm

Ti amo. Non vedo l'ora di vederlo con i sottotitoli in ita.

8/19/2021 02:44:33 am

caro Edoardo, sto cercando di ottenere i sottotitoli in italiano pure per la versione dello hobbit di M4. puoi aiutarmi? in caso contattami in questa email:

tidus.artedian@hotmail.it

Albin

7/12/2021 07:07:05 am

Hi! I know that I'm very late on this, but I still wanted to ask if there's any way to fix the swedish letters å ä and ö to work in the subtitles srt files, because currently there's just weird symbols instead.

Eric

7/12/2021 07:37:14 am

Hej Albin.
Have you downloaded the subtitles and tried them in a media player? The letters look weird for me too when looking at the srt in my web browser, but when it's downloaded it works perfectly fine in VLC.

Kamelen

1/12/2022 01:03:58 pm

I just want to say a big THANK YOU to:

1) Dustin for the wonderful edit. You've totally saved this film experience for me! I just can't abide the original versions.

2) Eric Odmyr for the astonishingly good Swedish subs. World class!

Also, does anybody have a guide on how to add subs to the DVD ISO files? Something beyond just "use this or that software" would be much appreciated.

JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit