I disagree. This animated version was so ridiculously badly made that not even Tolkien’s superb story could save it. I remember watching it as a kid, I hated it then and I still do.
I watched the movie as a kid, dubbed in my mother tongue and let me tell you: French Gandalf gives even more "blasé" energy. He doesn't even say "Fly you fools" but "Run away you bunch of imbeciles." ("Sauvez-vous imbéciles")
This movie has its warts and suffers at times from what I can only describe as “extreme goofiness” but it hits a hell of a lot of notes and has a really cool aesthetic in my opinion.
I really like the part where Gandalf dodges the arrows like that. And the Balrog's completely unfazed by Gandalf's warnings which proved to be its downfall.
i was enthralled by this as a kid & still am today. The sense of imagination & wonder with the musical score just makes for such a unique & enchanting experience. Never gets old in my opinion
They travelled in advance to the Undying Lands. Sure, hobbits habitually wore them. And you could find the occasionally pantsed dwarf or elf. But pants had no place among Men... real Manly Men... not during the War Of the Ring(s).
It was great when this came out. It was a look into the world of Tolkien that so many had wanted for so long. Amazing, too that Bakshi got it. His previous work had not led anyone to think so.
Amzing piece of work, that scene where the orc throws the spear at frodo and it goes slo-mo that is a godly piece of animation, and the robo-scoping is divine. "you cannot pass" at least they got this bit right.
@@daledelatte9607 Peter Jackson himself said this version was a huge influence on his movies. Several scenes were copied directly and it has nothing to do with how they are described in the books.
@@irishthump73 both versions were described in the book, Peter Jackson himself said they would be: "nothing like what's come out before, they will be as true to the books as possible"
@@daledelatte9607 No. If 100 people read the same description of a scene they all come away with a slightly different interpretation of what the scene should look like. Jackson DIRECTLY COPIED several scenes from the Bhakshi version. Look into into it, they're not hard to find.
Why in the hell did someone think it was ok to give Aragorn no pants and Boromir a friggen horned helmet lol? He's a Gondorian Soldier and Captain not a Viking wannabe.
@N_Loco_Parenthesis you must be blinded by nostalgia. There is nothing scary about what amounts to a kid in a halloween costume that is flying around on wires with stock sound effects. The music in the Jackson version signifies a primordial evil while also including the epic score for suspense while this is just suspense.
@@Shadowman820this one has the head of a lion, and also has literal wings ( which many argue the book balrog does not have). It's as distant as the movie's demon from the book description.
@@pierdurin Well maybe but at least it is vaguely of man shape . The Jackson one kind of looks like something out of the doom video game series . You're right about the wings though , likely Balrogs did not have actual wings and probably could not fly like this one does .
@@PhilipReeder In the books, the Balrog keeps clumsily knocking over lamps and vases with his huge awkward tail and keeps shouting WHOOPS SORRY over and over This happens 26 times. I've counted.
I don't think the Balrog is too bad , The Jackson one is a bit exagerated in size and look . They were supposed to be of man shape according to Tolkien .
It seems rediculous to make a balrog suit for a man, then rotoscope it afterwards. Why not just animate an f-ing balrog. It seems easier and also it wouldnt look like a guy in crappy suit.
It’s actually not as bad as I imagined it would be. Honestly the animated characters have realistic bodies. People maybe who don’t know much about animation (and how extremely difficult it was 40 years ago) might not understand but having realistic-correct body proportions-is a huge achievement back then. Just look at early Disney-their Silly Symphony shorts before they did Snow White. Disney too had to learn how to correctly animate realistic proportions and their early attempts are laughable by today’s standards. Granted this is a later date than Snow White, but still it’s a small production and probably the people working on it were having to learn too. I’m impressed too that the story is pretty close to Peter Jackson’s LOTRs. Basically even the shots look very similar. (The characters especially even move closely to how the live action actors did) Again animation wise that says to me they at least thought about how a character would realistically pose/react in the scene. In animation you can do anything. To have poses being almost the same is pretty incredible.
I found it kind of funny that the animations move like actors. I’m so used to animations being able to do things that we can’t in real life, like actually stab and orc. So to see an animation where the flat part of the sword seems to hit and then bounce off is hilarious. It almost looks like they were trying to animate it like live action actors would do it. This is definitely one of those moments where the bad (compared to todays standards) animations add to the show don’t take away.
@@crosbyspsychedelics1383 Yeah, I don’t find that bad but actually good. Lol. Animating realistic movements and body proportions, etc. is very difficult. Even details like folds in fabric, when drawing that all by hand, to get it to look realistic you have to know a lot about how thick the fabric is, etc. to know how it would move. The capes on the hobbits in this look very close to how the capes looked on the real life actors when they are running. The running and walking too isn’t all the same. That’s another very difficult thing to do in animation. Realistic walk/run cycles. And obviously they took the time to give them each unique walk/run cycles. Gandalf actually walks like he’s carrying a staff and is the eldest. The hobbits walk and run in a distinct way too. It’s actually not bad. Maybe super realistic style isn’t popular anymore, but to be honest, that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
As I remember, it was filmed with live actors then animated over them. I loved this movie as a 10 year old and think it gets a bad wrap. They did the best they could with the technology available at that time. Similar to Star Wars A New Hope. Sometimes it’s less about the visual effects and more about the story.
@@matthewduffy4435 This is very true. It's the reason why the animation was so realistic. However, the only drawback was they ran out of funds (or didn't get funded) so they couldn't complete the second part as the first part was the first book and 1/2 of the second book. There was a "Return of the King" cartoon but not by Bakhshi.
Rotoscope Cast include Sharon Baird as Frodo Baggins, the late John A. Neris as Gandalf, the late Billy Barty as both Bilbo Baggins & Sam Gamgee, the late Trey Wilson as Aragorn, Aesop Aquarian as Gimli - Son Of Gloin, young Dennis "Danger" Madalone as Prince Isildur, the late Felix Sila as Smeagol/Gollum & Mic Rodgers as Marshal Eomer - Nephew Of Theoden. But which Rotoscope Actors played Merry Brandybuck, Pippin Took, Legolas Greenleaf - Son of Thranduil, Boromir - Son Of Denethor, The Dark Lord Sauron, The Ringwraiths, Orcs, Goblins & Uruk-Hais?
I compared the Peter Jackson Trilogy (Fellowship-2Towers-ReturnKing) to this Ralph Bakshi Cartoon Classic (which I was amazed of seeing back when I was 11 years old, having just read the four books (fellowship/towers/king then hobbit).
Not only does the Balrog look like a badly groomed poodle in a vampire costume, he can also fly, see 3:36. So why a duel with Gandalf? And why did he crash when Gandalf broke the bridge? Balrog could have flown away over him in a high arc: "Bye bye grandpa, I'm following your friends now, have fun in the abyss in the meantime".
meanwhile Richard: So who's body did we recover, DW: The body of the huntress summer rose Richard: what DW: the adoptive mother of ruby rose Richard: so your telling me that ozpin, my most hated rival has given my grand daughter rose petal, to a slayer of my pets with magic eyes DW: Yep summer was killed by your daughter salem, when her mission accord Richard: i don't believe this has ozpin gone mad, recruiting children to fight his war. how foolish Edward: hey pops we ready for atlas Richard: yes gather adam and the others
The only thing i didnt like about this film was Aragorns outfit. They needed to make his tunic slightly longer and give him leggings. as it is he looks like a tikthot, in his mini dress. oh, and the Balrog looks goofy
If you take your time and justify in a dissertation what you think of this film in connection with the book, you can - in today's world - achieve a degree as a doctor in literature. Crazy world we live in!
@@cymaddux3131 'SHE' cannot. The balrog in the scene is a SHE actress. The CGI movie got it wrong also. 😄it can fly and glide slow but not like a bat, bird, or eagle darting off and doesn't create enough lift for its body, it flys down those pits and lands safely and has to jump, and glide, and climb up a piece at a time or materialize from a shadow or shadow of orcs in battle. Part of it's lift is by the power in its wings and part is by the physical power of it's wings arms and legs swinging momentum but not enough to excel in flight say compared to the physical prowess of flight a dragon can perform as a creature.
some people say "he cannot fly'. = SHE' cannot. The balrog in the scene is a SHE actress. The CGI movie got it wrong also. 😄it can fly and glide slow but not like a bat, bird, or eagle darting off and doesn't create enough lift for its body in it's current configurational design that happened that way by the ingredients the being is made from. it flys down those pits and lands safely and has to jump, and glide, and climb up a piece at a time or materialize from a shadow or shadow of orcs in battle. Part of it's lift is by the power in its wings and part is by the physical power of it's wings arms and legs swinging momentum but not enough to excel in flight say compared to the physical prowess of flight a dragon can perform as a physical design. Some dragons are the same way, relying on power of flight or combination of physics and power and or know how as craft and science in technique with physics worldly and other worldly. The balrog can fly for short stints or like down that tunnel while falling fighting with gandalf.
Tolkien was really specific in the Silmarillion about the fact that the dark forces (which included balrogs) had no ability to fly. Balrogs actually don't have wings at all in Tolkien's written works. Tolkien uses a simile in the Fellowship of the Ring when describing the Balrog, saying the darkness around the balrog was LIKE wings, but not that it was wings. So both movies have it wrong...turns out though that balrogs just look really cool with wings, that's why they have them in the movies.
@@levihobbs1416 thats the thing, they did although some did not, and the balrog in the animated movie that fought with gandalf was a female and winged not a titanic giant flaming bull man like the cgi movie. a servant of the secret fire like gandalf and was an angel that came to be in the balrog and born with the balrog and evened the scales against each other, for the hobbits were free from any death by this
@@6thBeatleFinnxMal0 Because it couldn't fly. The Balrog in the book was never described as having wings. People often think it has wings because the book says: "The shadow about it reached out LIKE two vast wings".
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No matter what certain people say: this movie is a gem.
I disagree. This animated version was so ridiculously badly made that not even Tolkien’s superb story could save it. I remember watching it as a kid, I hated it then and I still do.
@@Fingolfin4859 lol, thank you. Now I feel bad for trashing it XD
@@belfigue I agree with you I don't like this version of the lord of the ring I like the normal ones
I love the orcs in this movie, this is how i imagine the Angband orcs.
@@morgothfromangband6082 I find the Elves are made really well, in this movie.
Gandalf casually telling them to flee while he's falling into an endless abyss
“You fools”
That is the one thing that bugs me about this scene. There is no sense of urgency in his voice.
I watched the movie as a kid, dubbed in my mother tongue and let me tell you: French Gandalf gives even more "blasé" energy. He doesn't even say "Fly you fools" but "Run away you bunch of imbeciles." ("Sauvez-vous imbéciles")
"Fly you fools! 🙄"
It is like an Oblivion character making conversation while getting merked.
Gondor has no pants. Gondor needs no pants.
Lmfao
😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂 killed me
pants cost extra to draw.
"Fly, you fools!"
I'm idiot enough to picture perhaps Pippin saying: "Well, you guys heard him!" And jumping afterwards
😂😂😂
Fool of a took😭
This movie has its warts and suffers at times from what I can only describe as “extreme goofiness” but it hits a hell of a lot of notes and has a really cool aesthetic in my opinion.
I agree. I bet in 1978 this blew a lot of kid’s minds.
love how gandalf casually says fly you fools as he falls as ita a minor inconvenience
He just slipped in the basement was all.
I really like the part where Gandalf dodges the arrows like that. And the Balrog's completely unfazed by Gandalf's warnings which proved to be its downfall.
"You cannot pass."
Gandalf said calmly
For those of you who don't know. This is rotoscope animation like Fire and Ice. It's shaded and colored frames of filmed actors.
heaven yes!
Not all of it just some parts
1:40 just has me dead. Aragorn, hacking that orc, while Borimir is laying unconscious, like he had to much to drink, has me dying lol 😂.
i was enthralled by this as a kid & still am today. The sense of imagination & wonder with the musical score just makes for such a unique & enchanting experience. Never gets old in my opinion
I guess pants weren't a thing in the Numenorian Realms in exile.
Gondor have no pants.
Gondor need no pants.
These goblins are fuckin terrifying especially the idea of being stuck in an abandoned mine with those chasing you
I was thinking the same thing, here they dont look like goofy ass frogs, they look like demons.
1:20 that one orc took out both boromir and aragorn??? mayhe he should be the king of gondor
This complete animation is like a fever dream
Wait till you watch it on shrooms
Legolas standing at arms length with the enemy with his bow not shooting 🤣🤣
I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor…
The big Uruk chucking his spear at Frodo is a badass little sequence
Not uruk. Orc captain. Although in the movies, it was a cave troll. If I remember right.
That throw was very fluid..very impressive
@@NachoDaMan Yes but this is more book accurate as it was an orc in the books .
The balrog wears bunny slippers and looks like a warthog and a butterfly
I agree...it looks shit 😂
2:20 Come no closer ! Come no closer, I warn you !
(Aragon)“Come no Closer!, Come no Closer I warn you!”(2:20)
Where were Gondors pants when the Westfold fell?
They travelled in advance to the Undying Lands.
Sure, hobbits habitually wore them.
And you could find the occasionally pantsed dwarf or elf.
But pants had no place among Men... real Manly Men... not during the War Of the Ring(s).
Gondor needs no pants.
It was great when this came out. It was a look into the world of Tolkien that so many had wanted for so long.
Amazing, too that Bakshi got it. His previous work had not led anyone to think so.
Amzing piece of work, that scene where the orc throws the spear at frodo and it goes slo-mo that is a godly piece of animation, and the robo-scoping is divine. "you cannot pass" at least they got this bit right.
4:09 Gandalf: I wonder if that crazy Balrog will remember he can fly. (thud) I guess not.
It's a real great movie for me. I love its atmosphears, musics, ambients and dialogues... Top!!!
Still way better then the Rings of Power.
True
Awesome 😀
A monkey with a Smartphone could've done better than Amazon's woke piece of trash.
That has nothing to do with Tolkien's work, so need to be mentioned.
Amen 🙏
Didn't realize how much inspiration the movies took from the cartoons
@@manga3040 of course.... I'm talking about the way the scenes are done
@@DrTIPUSUK as described in the books?
@@daledelatte9607 Peter Jackson himself said this version was a huge influence on his movies. Several scenes were copied directly and it has nothing to do with how they are described in the books.
@@irishthump73 both versions were described in the book, Peter Jackson himself said they would be: "nothing like what's come out before, they will be as true to the books as possible"
@@daledelatte9607 No. If 100 people read the same description of a scene they all come away with a slightly different interpretation of what the scene should look like. Jackson DIRECTLY COPIED several scenes from the Bhakshi version. Look into into it, they're not hard to find.
Why in the hell did someone think it was ok to give Aragorn no pants and Boromir a friggen horned helmet lol? He's a Gondorian Soldier and Captain not a Viking wannabe.
The balrog is definitly not as scary and menacing than from the movies, but the orcs give me the creeps.
this real balrog actor gives me goosebumps everytime, unlike the CGI balrog design.
@N_Loco_Parenthesis you must be blinded by nostalgia. There is nothing scary about what amounts to a kid in a halloween costume that is flying around on wires with stock sound effects.
The music in the Jackson version signifies a primordial evil while also including the epic score for suspense while this is just suspense.
believe it or not this Balrog was maybe closer to what Tolkien had in mind as he described it as man shaped but greater not horned demon .
@@Shadowman820this one has the head of a lion, and also has literal wings ( which many argue the book balrog does not have). It's as distant as the movie's demon from the book description.
@@pierdurin Well maybe but at least it is vaguely of man shape . The Jackson one kind of looks like something out of the doom video game series . You're right about the wings though , likely Balrogs did not have actual wings and probably could not fly like this one does .
I like this very much ngl - it's old and stuff, but it is immortal and absolutely heart touching
gotta love Aragorn stopping the orks like "dont come any closer, i warn you"
I haven't read the books, does Tolkein describe the Balrog as "a big loveable doofus who likes to goof around"?
Something tells me you knew the answer as you wrote your question...
😄
@@PhilipReeder In the books, the Balrog keeps clumsily knocking over lamps and vases with his huge awkward tail and keeps shouting WHOOPS SORRY over and over
This happens 26 times. I've counted.
I think Tolkien describes him as "like a boss that you'd fight in a Castlevania game, but like not one of the really big or really hard ones".
Freddie Mercury Drag Queen is the actual words
Isn’t that Tim Curry in Legend?
Lovely how gandalf sounds more like he is annoyed than scared
3:54 Chewie is that you
*whispers to Gandalf* : "Let the Wookie win..."
I like it! I reminds me of watching He-Man when I was a kid, but with one of my favorite epic stories.
shit man this rotoscoping goes hard
The cave troll and the balrog are a crushing disappointment. 😂😂
you don't see the troll, that's an orc chieftain, like in the book
@@jeremywrentzel I think the troll is that big reptilian foot that's trying to wedge itself into the door that Frodo ends up stabbing .
I don't think the Balrog is too bad , The Jackson one is a bit exagerated in size and look . They were supposed to be of man shape according to Tolkien .
@@Shadowman820 good call, yep, I agree
@@Shadowman820 ohhh - I need to re-read.
That version of the Balrog is still scary to me
1:45 Aragorn's sword may need sharpening...
This animation is way ahead of its time during the 70s
You cannot pass - and he actually said it calmly
The wings created a bit of a plot hole when a Balrog could just simply fly out of the pit while Gandalf fell down
I agree, and it’s the same thing as the live action version of the balrog.
I really love that orks. I think they are much scarier. And they are so many different kinds of them in this movie.
This is how the Angband orcs were.
Great movie!
For the shire!
1:31 No, not my boy!! No!!!
1:49 He’s alright? Phew! That was close!
It seems rediculous to make a balrog suit for a man, then rotoscope it afterwards. Why not just animate an f-ing balrog. It seems easier and also it wouldnt look like a guy in crappy suit.
I love this movie.
It’s actually not as bad as I imagined it would be. Honestly the animated characters have realistic bodies. People maybe who don’t know much about animation (and how extremely difficult it was 40 years ago) might not understand but having realistic-correct body proportions-is a huge achievement back then.
Just look at early Disney-their Silly Symphony shorts before they did Snow White. Disney too had to learn how to correctly animate realistic proportions and their early attempts are laughable by today’s standards.
Granted this is a later date than Snow White, but still it’s a small production and probably the people working on it were having to learn too.
I’m impressed too that the story is pretty close to Peter Jackson’s LOTRs. Basically even the shots look very similar. (The characters especially even move closely to how the live action actors did)
Again animation wise that says to me they at least thought about how a character would realistically pose/react in the scene. In animation you can do anything.
To have poses being almost the same is pretty incredible.
I found it kind of funny that the animations move like actors. I’m so used to animations being able to do things that we can’t in real life, like actually stab and orc. So to see an animation where the flat part of the sword seems to hit and then bounce off is hilarious. It almost looks like they were trying to animate it like live action actors would do it. This is definitely one of those moments where the bad (compared to todays standards) animations add to the show don’t take away.
@@crosbyspsychedelics1383 Yeah, I don’t find that bad but actually good. Lol. Animating realistic movements and body proportions, etc. is very difficult. Even details like folds in fabric, when drawing that all by hand, to get it to look realistic you have to know a lot about how thick the fabric is, etc. to know how it would move.
The capes on the hobbits in this look very close to how the capes looked on the real life actors when they are running. The running and walking too isn’t all the same.
That’s another very difficult thing to do in animation. Realistic walk/run cycles. And obviously they took the time to give them each unique walk/run cycles. Gandalf actually walks like he’s carrying a staff and is the eldest. The hobbits walk and run in a distinct way too.
It’s actually not bad.
Maybe super realistic style isn’t popular anymore, but to be honest, that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
As I remember, it was filmed with live actors then animated over them. I loved this movie as a 10 year old and think it gets a bad wrap. They did the best they could with the technology available at that time. Similar to Star Wars A New Hope. Sometimes it’s less about the visual effects and more about the story.
@@matthewduffy4435 This is very true. It's the reason why the animation was so realistic. However, the only drawback was they ran out of funds (or didn't get funded) so they couldn't complete the second part as the first part was the first book and 1/2 of the second book. There was a "Return of the King" cartoon but not by Bakhshi.
@@matthewduffy4435 the technique is called rotoscoping. The orcs looked like actors without being turned to animations.
Never seen it before. Well I guess Peter Jackson was really inspired by this movie, some scenes are almost identical.
3:04 I am Balrog and I have lots and lots of powers.
The Orcs look like so much like Cavemen in Viking Helmets.
I love that the orcs look like your average crackheads
I realize it's an animated movie from a long time ago so let a lot of things go, but Durin's Bane breaking Glamdring? NEVER HAPPEN!!
The movies did also change some things that would "never happen", but that is the thing when you translate a story from one medium to another.
Aragorn and Boromir carried the entire battle due to Legolas aiming his bow but never firing and Gimli tripping over a dead orc 😂
To be fair with Legolas and Gimli, they both each killed at least one orc.
When I was young I thought Lord of the Rings was an action-book.
Rotoscope Cast include Sharon Baird as Frodo Baggins, the late John A. Neris as Gandalf, the late Billy Barty as both Bilbo Baggins & Sam Gamgee, the late Trey Wilson as Aragorn, Aesop Aquarian as Gimli - Son Of Gloin, young Dennis "Danger" Madalone as Prince Isildur, the late Felix Sila as Smeagol/Gollum & Mic Rodgers as Marshal Eomer - Nephew Of Theoden. But which Rotoscope Actors played Merry Brandybuck, Pippin Took, Legolas Greenleaf - Son of Thranduil, Boromir - Son Of Denethor, The Dark Lord Sauron, The Ringwraiths, Orcs, Goblins & Uruk-Hais?
I compared the Peter Jackson Trilogy (Fellowship-2Towers-ReturnKing) to this Ralph Bakshi Cartoon Classic (which I was amazed of seeing back when I was 11 years old, having just read the four books (fellowship/towers/king then hobbit).
Still better than rings of power!
A million times
What does Aragorn look like Anton Chigurh? 🤣🤣🤣
Orcs are so scary o.O
Not only does the Balrog look like a badly groomed poodle in a vampire costume, he can also fly, see 3:36. So why a duel with Gandalf? And why did he crash when Gandalf broke the bridge? Balrog could have flown away over him in a high arc: "Bye bye grandpa, I'm following your friends now, have fun in the abyss in the meantime".
Awesome
meanwhile
Richard: So who's body did we recover,
DW: The body of the huntress summer rose
Richard: what
DW: the adoptive mother of ruby rose
Richard: so your telling me that ozpin, my most hated rival has given my grand daughter rose petal, to a slayer of my pets with magic eyes
DW: Yep summer was killed by your daughter salem, when her mission accord
Richard: i don't believe this has ozpin gone mad, recruiting children to fight his war. how foolish
Edward: hey pops we ready for atlas
Richard: yes gather adam and the others
As silly as this looks today, you can still tell that Jackson drew on it for his movies.
Someone should make a movie on that Orc Captain 1:13
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!
3:56 Monster Jerry Roar
Rip Glamdring
Interesting, you can tell they’ve drawn the cartoon over live actors in a studio, never seen that before. Looks a bit weird.
Animation is light years better than most of the shitty American cartoons nowadays sad 😢
Neat! Not Peter of course, but quite nice. Looks rotoscoped.
The only thing i didnt like about this film was Aragorns outfit. They needed to make his tunic slightly longer and give him leggings. as it is he looks like a tikthot, in his mini dress. oh, and the Balrog looks goofy
definitely got the size and shadowiness of the Balrog right, but I don't like the flying bit.
DW: there he goes
If you take your time and justify in a dissertation what you think of this film in connection with the book, you can - in today's world - achieve a degree as a doctor in literature. Crazy world we live in!
Epic
Far better than the billion dollar Amazon abortion
Looks like this belongs on Joel Haver’s channel
More acurate than peter jackson movies.
Why Aragorn looks like a character from Pocahontas?
I still prefer the newer ones
You can not pass!!!
WTF is with Legolas’ curly bow at 1:00??
UA-camrs can animate their even better than this studio
They can now. They couldn't in 1978.
If the balrog can fly why didn't he fly over to the other side or out of the chasm when he fell off the bridge? Go figure...
He can’t
@@cymaddux3131 'SHE' cannot. The balrog in the scene is a SHE actress. The CGI movie got it wrong also. 😄it can fly and glide slow but not like a bat, bird, or eagle darting off and doesn't create enough lift for its body, it flys down those pits and lands safely and has to jump, and glide, and climb up a piece at a time or materialize from a shadow or shadow of orcs in battle. Part of it's lift is by the power in its wings and part is by the physical power of it's wings arms and legs swinging momentum but not enough to excel in flight say compared to the physical prowess of flight a dragon can perform as a creature.
@@zAvAvAz the balrog is a maiar, it’s not a he or a she.
@@zAvAvAz and no, it cannot fly, that’s pretty evident.
@@cymaddux3131 whatever, i saw it myself
The Shire
What type of elf wears all ivory while battling in a cave?
OK its old but the balrog Looks so Bad 😂. I can't
Why does Aragon look like a Native American?
I think he was supposed to be modeled after a Native American
@@6thBeatleFinnxMal0 The actor was Native
some people say "he cannot fly'. = SHE' cannot. The balrog in the scene is a SHE actress. The CGI movie got it wrong also. 😄it can fly and glide slow but not like a bat, bird, or eagle darting off and doesn't create enough lift for its body in it's current configurational design that happened that way by the ingredients the being is made from. it flys down those pits and lands safely and has to jump, and glide, and climb up a piece at a time or materialize from a shadow or shadow of orcs in battle. Part of it's lift is by the power in its wings and part is by the physical power of it's wings arms and legs swinging momentum but not enough to excel in flight say compared to the physical prowess of flight a dragon can perform as a physical design. Some dragons are the same way, relying on power of flight or combination of physics and power and or know how as craft and science in technique with physics worldly and other worldly. The balrog can fly for short stints or like down that tunnel while falling fighting with gandalf.
Tolkien was really specific in the Silmarillion about the fact that the dark forces (which included balrogs) had no ability to fly. Balrogs actually don't have wings at all in Tolkien's written works. Tolkien uses a simile in the Fellowship of the Ring when describing the Balrog, saying the darkness around the balrog was LIKE wings, but not that it was wings. So both movies have it wrong...turns out though that balrogs just look really cool with wings, that's why they have them in the movies.
@@levihobbs1416 thats the thing, they did although some did not, and the balrog in the animated movie that fought with gandalf was a female and winged not a titanic giant flaming bull man like the cgi movie. a servant of the secret fire like gandalf and was an angel that came to be in the balrog and born with the balrog and evened the scales against each other, for the hobbits were free from any death by this
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Does glamdring actually break?
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@@6thBeatleFinnxMal0 the last time I remember legend Lords of the rings is the Lego one
Yeah, I finished that game
@@6thBeatleFinnxMal0 me too
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Is this live action mixed with animation? 😂
Yes, in a way. It was a process called rotoscope. You animate over live filming.
@@rdrift1879 Where did they find a Balrog then?
@@urosmarjanovic663 Looks like a guy in a Balrog suit to me!
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Why did the Balrog fall when it can fly?
Same thing with Peter Jackson’s balrog
@@6thBeatleFinnxMal0 Because it couldn't fly. The Balrog in the book was never described as having wings. People often think it has wings because the book says: "The shadow about it reached out LIKE two vast wings".
@@6thBeatleFinnxMal0 Peter Jackson’s balrog couldn’t fly even though it had wings
Rotoscoping is just awful. :(