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If you're of a certain age and you got into Dungeons and Dragons, Fighting Fantasy gamebooks or anything else fantasy then this version of LOTR was all we had as a kid unless you want to start counting the old Harryhausen movies. I absolutely adore this version despite it's many obvious flaws. John Hurt as Aragorn is inspired, the soundtrack is great and I still think Frodo, Merry and Pippin are way better than the film version.

Oooo horray

❤

Critics suck

Jackson took a lot of liberties and the hobbit sucked

Relax pal just enjoy

❤ it #child of the 70’s#

If you watch any of those animated films (The hobbit, LOTR or ROTK) after having become a fan through the PJ films, it’s definitely going to be difficult to appreciate them. They were pretty disappointing at the time in my opinion. I can tell you this though- back then, there was a ubiquitous and unambiguous sense that films were, by their nature, far less satisfying than reading the book from which they were inspired. I don’t think we live in that cultural milieu anymore. And those PJ films are probably the best demonstration of that evolutionary moment where we could legitimately debate whether or not a film could actually compete with the experience of reading a book. Many people seem to believe that the answer is not so obvious anymore. And many more still, seem to not even be considering the question. For better or worse, we really do seem to be moving along….. Psst! Hey… Read my friends! Read!! It’s still the best!! 😂

Bakshi really did master Samwise dirty. He didn’t have to look THAT simple lol

It isn't weird.

between 1978 and 2003 is 30 years?????

Oddly, there are several live action bloopers in the film that the animators just traced over, probably the most infamous being when Gandalf reveals himself to be Gandalf the White, but in the actor's flourish, his robe gets wrapped around his head, and the animators just left it in! In another scene, Aragorn awkwardly trips over his own scabbard while running in an obviously unscripted moment. I'm sure there are more, but those are the only ones I can remember offhand.

When i was a teen this was all we had, and it could have been far far worse

Still preferable to the Peter Jackson films. Bakshi's bizarre mix of visual styles was an epic fantasy all in itself.

What a rambling repetitive review. 😒

If I won the powerball lottery, I would absolutely fund a sequel to this. I'd imagine it would cost about $100m to do, and probably bring in $40m at the box office, but for $60m cost I'd be fine with that (assuming I'd won $1bn or sometihng). It's honestly surprising that no silicon valley types are wealthy and geeky enough to want to drop money on doing it. Same with other unfinished creative projects. I mean Paul Allen and James Cameron funded a lot of marine stuff but it's remarkable how many super wealthy people apparently have zero interest in creative stuff like buying unfinished projects to finish them, simply because they were fans growing up.

This movie is not forgotten by fans. Where do you get that? If you were of the generations who were older when Peter Jackson’s films came out, this was the best we got. Still has a great musical theme.

Somebody moaning about all the songs suggests somebody who really shouldn't be making films about Tolkien. You can moan about the quality of the songs if you think they are crap, but moaning about the songs and the number of them suggests you really don't have much idea about Tolkien.

There are 23 years between the films.

Im kind of annoyed by the giant liquid eyes of some of the characters in the Rankin ones, and some of the 70s feelbad music is dreary and seemed to drag on forever. But that was common back then, heh. Other songs like "The Bearer of the Ring" were super memorable. And there were some ways here and there the animated films were better than Peter Jackson's. For those of us who saw them as kids they were unforgettable. Someone described Bakshi's film as 'ambitious and full of flaws'. I agree. All three were well done imo, must sees for anyone who is interested in LOTR. Sukt that Bakshi never finished with the other half of his film, and I was really disappointed at the time when it ended like that rather rudely pretty much in the middle. But at least Rankin Bass took up the story more or less.

bakshis movie is a masterpiece for what it is, some of the scenes are just brilliant!

I know the Bakshi version isn’t a good movie, but I still have a fondness for it. Boromir’s death scene and that look of desperation Aragorn gives Legolas and Gimli is just brilliant!

Peter Jackson's LoTR films actually followed the Bashki film pretty closely. The Rankin-Bass Hobbit + Ralph Bashki LoTR + Rankin-Bass "Return of the King" for better or worse do relate the core of Tolkien's story.

Because Ralph Bakshi was on lots and lots of hard drugs

Short answer: it isn't.

This brought back memories I didn’t know I had, I must’ve watched this as a kid. Your last 3rd of the video has a few janky voiceover edits btw, just fyi.

I'm not defending it at all, I'm just saying you needed to be alive then to experience the zeitgeist of the 70's to get it.

Without this animated version we probably don't get the live-action films. At least they would be very different.

1978 > 2001 is 23 years, not 33

Wow, do we have different tastes. I hated the Big Lebowski when it was released. And even after watching it several more times with others to see if I could undersIand why others like it, I still find it grating and stupid. I would have to place Fargo #1, No Country for Old Men #2 and Blood Simple #3. After that Miller's Crossing and O Brother, Where Art Thou. But we do agree on Intolerable Cruelty, Ladykiller and Hudsucker Proxy. Those were awful.

it's not weird you are

i remember watching the whole thing a few years back and the one scene that sticks out for me is when Frodo and the other hobbits are hiding from the ring wraith under the tree log and Frodo is doing some weird shaking thing like he is supposed to look scared or something and i remember thinking "what the fuck is wrong with Frodo?"

it was really missing an upbeat song about the plight of the average orc not wanting to go to war

Samwise’s character in the Bakshi film was a disgrace. Although I still enjoy the film there were so many obvious blunders.

another Jake banger

I actually love the old lotr movie. Obviously so did Peter Jackson.

Lord of the Rings live action was "unfilmable" in 1969 when the beatles asked Kubrick to make it. It's not like Hollywood thought it was unfilmable until Peter Jackson cracked it. Lol

Boo!

Nice coverage, but we still don't know why Aragorn and Boromir and probably many others wear no pants.

Lord of the Rings 1978 is a stoner trip.

I thought this was a well-done video, even if I don't agree with all the opinions. Like other commenters have said, the animated Hobbit is worth reconsidering. There's no flab, and it is so vastly superior to the atrociously inflated Jackson Hobbit trilogy that it should, in my opinion, be considered the definitive adaptation of The Hobbit for the time being. We are at a strange moment where many of us remain fascinated by the LotR universe, so we want more of it. But what exactly "more" of it means is kind of unclear. We still don't have good cinematic representations of a lot of moments from the books: Tom Bombadil, the Barrow Wights, the night in Beorn's cabin, Rivendell, the culling of the Shire... And by the same token, I think we have all had enough of Kili to last us several lifetimes. So what happens is we recover these moments from past adaptations and say, "hey, there's something to this!" Bakshi's aesthetic choices and Jackson's practical effects are so much more compelling than the already-outdated CGI of Azog the Defiler or BOLG son of Azog. Every time I see the Brother Hildebrandt LotR art, I can only say "what if!"

Kind of a wild take to shit on the 1977 Hobbit and it's songs, especially considering how universally loved it is

I’m shocked by your disdain for the Hobbit’s songs: I can’t imagine a Hobbit without them!

You idiot! The songs were the best part of these animations!

I love this film. After watching Fellowship in 2001 I was enamored with the world and we went to the local video store which had this and Rankin/Bass's Hobbit. One of the best nights of my life, cementing me as a Tolkien fan for life, a fan of Fantasy literature, a true cinephile, and a avid animation fan. Similar to the live-action Hobbit, this is just-shy of a masterpiece and only a few crucial changes (such as a bigger budget) could have resulted in something truly great! Watch Heavy Traffic to see how Bakshi can use creative backgrounds and techniques to make a dazzlingly atmospheric and euphorically well-animated film. Folding Ideas has a great video on this movie :) I think Jackson's first Middle Earth film (Fellowship) is my favorite film ever, but I am extremely glad this cartoon exists as it touches on a part of the book that was overlooked in its 2000's counterpart. Similar to how the Harry Potter films sacrifice a lot of the books' magical realism for their cinematic adaptation, the live-action Tolkien films often sacrifice the existential star-gazingly slow pace of the books (which is very much a good thing) for a more 2000-s attention span driven video game influenced pace. Theres something truly otherworldly that often influences Tolkien Art, especially that of before the Jackson films, and its completely understandable how it was relatable to the psychedelia and hippy crowd. It can be truly surreal and hypnotic. But it was the Jackson films which pointed me towards this (for lack of a better term) transcendent art work.

Uhhh Raising Arizona has a lot more going for it thematically than it just being a screwball comedy. Much more than The Big Lebowski.

They are too expensive to try thanks for telling me they aren't worth it

Sub to that gamer

1. Se7en 2. Panic Room 3. Zodiac 4. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 5. Gone Girl 6. Fight Club 7. The Social Network 8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 9. The Killer 10. Alien 3 11. The Game 12. Mank

Great list. You won me over with wolf house.