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It's interesting to look at the 1978 version of the Lord of the Rings now that the movie has been redone by New Line Cinemas...It's almost laughable-

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/rotk/rotk-1-2259-nazgul.jpg

These are Nazguls!?!? Noooo wayyyyyy.......

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/rotk/rotk-1-2545-palantier.jpg
Denethor and palantir

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/rotk/rotk-2-1621-gollum.jpg

Why does Gollum look like a frog?

Ushgarak's note on the animated versions
Treebeard did look bad.

But there is a SERIOUS mix-up here. Those shots of the Nazgul and Eagles are NOT from Bakshi's animated version, which was very dark and nasty and the Nazguls looked fantastic. Bakshi's version only got to the end of Helms' Deep, remember. There was no Denethor and Palantir and so on.

And that is NOT Gollum. The link given by Kitoky above shows the actual Gollum pics. You have mixed up shots from a DIFFERENT production.

I am a big fan of the animated version and I would ask for accuracy in criticism of it. It was a very well made production and like I say, the Nazguls were far scarier than the ones in the film.

PJ also liked the animated version very much and several scenes in the first two films are taken directly from it.

Those are hilarious! My dad liked 1978 version, I haven't seen it...I want to! Interesting how ppl interpret how things are and look...

And oh Kit, do you have any pic of the Balrog with the butterfly wings? It's laughable indeed. I'm most thankful of the version PJ made that we are enjoying right now.

It is i wonder if you can rent it at a movie store? I really would like to take a look at it

You can buy it at a store like Walmart...don't know if it's worth it-

*looks at Gollum again* Definate Frog

indeed, it would be fun to watch that and than watch the pj one. make pj's look even better

He's a frog! The precious! *ribbit*

Look at these...good thing the Eagles looks like.....yeah...Eagles...you're lucky Discos.


http://upload.houseboat-racing.biz/files/anothergollum.jpg

http://upload.houseboat-racing.biz/files/rotk-2-3522-bite-finger.jpg

http://upload.houseboat-racing.biz/files/eagles1.jpg

http://upload.houseboat-racing.biz/files/rotk-2-3743-eagles-come.jpg

i must see the movie now

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/bakshi/lotr-2-2403-balrog-bridge.jpg


Balrog with butterfly wings! *rolls on floor laughin*


http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/bakshi/lotr-2-0534-boromir.jpg

Boromir the lost Viking


http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/bakshi/lotr-2-0807-elrond.jpg

Elrond, the gansta

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/bakshi/lotr-2-1408-legolas-gimli.jpg

Legolas and Gimli - THEY ALMOST MAKE LEGOLAS GOOD, EVEN IF IT'S HALF-GOOD!

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/bakshi/lotr-2-3204-pillars-kings.jpg

Argonath- Looks like Dwarves that has Arthritis...

Me too!

Edit: AAAH! Balroog with butterfly wings! Viking Boromir! Elrond??! OMG! This is just...too weird. Must see 1978 versions NOW! (almost put 1798...hehe...I'm a bit dyslexic...)

The only good thing is that we have Glorfindel...Kit, you're lucky too.

Then again, this could be Legolas.

That's not Glorfindel, that's Legolas, that can't be Glorfindel unless they made Glorfindel and Legolas twins.

Elrond Gangsta *snickers*

bwahahahaha!!!! Boromir of Gondor!?! Dude, he's carrying a horn, not wearing a horn!!

Posted those already shadowy - don't steal me pics

LOL...the watcher in the water literally closed the doors in Moria. ...

does anyone have anymore? I want to see somemore

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/bakshi/lotr-3-1115-treebeard-find.jpg

Treebeard the tanned carrot-

Oh, sorry! I didn't see your posts...I was just keeping on posting without looking on the other posts..

Tree beard looks terrible! Where are you getting these?

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/bakshi.html

its a good thing they made the new ones yikes!!!

Omg that treebeard looks like a tanned carrot...

AAH! Treebeard is a giant, tanned carrot with leaves on his head...AAH!

Treebeard did look bad.

But there is a SERIOUS mix-up here. Those shots of the Nazgul and Eagles are NOT from Bakshi's animated version, which was very dark and nasty and the Nazguls looked fantastic. Bakshi's version only got to the end of Helms' Deep, remember. There was no Denethor and Palantir and so on.

And that is NOT Gollum. The link given by Kitoky above shows the actual Gollum pics. You have mixed up shots from a DIFFERENT production.

I am a big fan of the animated version and I would ask for accuracy in criticism of it. It was a very well made production and like I say, the Nazguls were far scarier than the ones in the film.

PJ also liked the animated version very much and several scenes in the first two films are taken directly from it.

Oh I'm not critisizing it Ush, I was just showing others how the animated version looked in 1978, it made quite an impression with The Hobbit and LotR and RotK, I must say.

So the frog thing isn't gollum? Then what is supposed to be?

It's not FROM the 1978 version, that is why it is not Gollum. You have mixed things up. Any picture you take from after Helm's Deep is not from that version.

Did you not notice that the shots you were taking from had blatant changes in the way people looked? Whoever did that ROTK animated version, it had NOTHING to do with the famed animated LOTR film.

Oh I see...thanks for clearing that Ush

I liked all of the animated versions for different reasons, the black riders in Bakshi's version were extremely scar, and still are! Whereas the animated return of the king is hilarious, if I remember correctly, Legolas and Gimli aren't even in it! The Gollum that you see on the pictures, from the animated Return of the King is really funny, especially the way he runs, and seems to have a vaguely Yorkshire accent, which somehow makes him more sinister?! The fact that there is a song every five seconds is also unbelievably funny, I know there are lots of songs in the book, but it is different in the animated version, I think you'd have to watch it to get what I mean properly though. Sam is also extremely dramatic in the non-Bakshi version.

Also, why are people saying Boromir looks like a Viking- which he does NOT- and not the Riders of Rohan from PJ's film... who DO?

People need to learn some sense before they mock.

Sorry?

It's ok, just inaccurate mocking gets to me.

I am glad Jennifer agrees about the scary Black Riders- they really were very good.

Wow. Im new here but thats hilarios

Welcome Welcome Chelesian

Yeah, hi! Hi!

lol oh god, its in HMV still and the hobbits actually look like children, merely 5 years old I would say.

It comes down to the perception Bakshi's had of the LOTR when he made the cartoon movie. I still prefer the animated version of The Hobbit by Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass (sp?) is more like for the kiddies, but great to watch as an Adult.

i found some pics of the cartoon version of lotr.....

spooky, there was a thread kicking about on the cartoon and the movie

Discos - theres some kick-ass eagles on it

oh i did look but nothing came up.....sorry if i started another dead thread...hides from mods

lol no one really bothers about it,

Discos - except Kit

Kit will die if he sees another pointless thread, or at least he will become

yep,

best go hiding just now

Let's all hide! *hides in inconspicuous dugout*

The Hobbit and Return of the King were done by the same people. Rankin and Bass.
The picture of Gollum is how he looked in The Hobbit and RotK.
Ush is right about many scenes coming straight from the animated version.
-Bilbo's speech and giving up the ring.
-The entire Prancing Pony incident
-The Nazgul drowning at Rivendell
These are just a few. Watch the movie and I'm sure you will see quite a few also.

lol Gollum just looks so "f*c*ed" up (pardon my french)

a frog!

hey im sorry i did look and really hard..i have dug a huge hole and im gonna hide in it

na Kit won't do much,

Discos - incase she does I am going to squeel and tell her where you guys are at

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/bakshi/lotr-3-0418-gollum-2.jpg

How is this?

SHE? Are you talking about Kit?

is kit f or m?

Kit's a dude.

ah sorry my mistake, I used to think "kit" was a female when I first came on and it has stuck ever since

Discos - It was his damn avator lol

oh god stop, ROFL

I thought he was a girl at first, cuz I knew a girl that we called "Kit" and my sister has a doll named Kit. *sigh* I was hopeless, now I can't ever imagine calling him a girl!

What was his avatar? *curious*

it was from a manga programme/movie of a girl

Discos - come to think of it it could have well bloody of been a guy *sigh, hates mangas*

Mangas are...um...IN-teresting...

sorry dudes but I find them really boring, very unrealistic (i know thats the basis of them) and simply stupid

Discos - being serious for once

also lets not start with the Kits a dude/dudette thing again, I swear that went on for a while

Hey!!!!

I saw it when I was eight...It's true..I went with my mom and I remember perfectly Helms Deep battle and and the ringwraths.
p

Memories

*grumbles* unfortunately...


Well then. Arwene, you took the pics from the link I gave in my thread I made about the Animation version and took pictures from the New Line film, and made another pointless thread. Please. DON'T.


Oh and nice new sig Discos

Merged

Thanks again-

Boromir is such a viking in that movie, i laughed through the whole movie, it was so trippy, definetly a 70's movie, Peter Jackson called the animated treebeard a carrot with a nose, i can totally see it

*shrugs*

hem hem mr kit.....this was my thread

thief dirty rotten thief it was ours he stole it from us!!!

Uh..



Sorry?

you will be

I thought you were my buddy sauron?

indeed i am

otherwise i would not have been so upset whaen i had to say goodbye for what i thought was the last time

he made me cry you know people!

Yes, I did...

its nothing to be proud of,,,,this eye rains acid you know, lost half my orcs and melted ringwraits number 8s cloak, spent all afternoon looking for him!

damn invisible wraiths!

We still love them don't we everyone?


*expects a 'Yes, Ms. Hanagan' kind of reply*

i hate the wraiths when im sleeping, and i get woken up by a "REEEEEEEE" and then they use my eye as a flaming hoop !!!!!

i'm confused... oh well... my precious

lol, me and sauron likes to rant...

Are there any pics from return of the king like the battle of pelennor fields cause id like to see how they did that

you could go to the link that I gave on the second page and it should be easy to see.

all good, not as confused anymore, the pelennor fields...it looked like a world war 2 news reel, 'and the battle rages on', god that movie was so cracked it was funny,
frodo's hair? again i'm going to go with the fact that it is a movie made in the 70's

The characters all look -haha- "strange". But I like Legolas, he's pretty in both movies :P

Legolas isn't as bad as the rest of them... boromir-his vikingness. lolol, aragorn looked like a native american

Legolas always has to be pretty and prissy - stupid elves...

lol i agree

Its laughable indeed...

But, strange, I remember the Nazgul a little different than on the first pic - some of the horses had horn lol... but I cant remember wings, though the Nazgul can beam themselves wherever they want it seems.

The most horrible one is the poor Balrog

Please read the thread through. That Nazgul pic, and the Gollum pic, were posted in error and were not from that animated version in which the Nazguls were much better.

lmao

Only slightly better, being merely hooded figures with red eyes.

Major problems wit the Nazgul included:
1) The absolutely hilarious hobbling around all curled up .
2) The inability to control a horse (on the way to the Ford).
3) The tendency to pretend to be the four horsemen of the apocalypes in a ridiculously overwrought sky
4) The tendency to just stop instead of actually chasing anyone

Major Problems with Saruman:
WELL is iit Saruman or Aruman? Make up your damn minds!

Major Problems with Sam:
He's a deformed moron

Major Problems with Gollum:
In a truly shocking performance he sounds more like Ron Moody's Fagin than a suitable Gollum, one half expects him to launch into a rendition of...
Ohh you've got to pick a pocket or two boys,
you've got a pick a pocket or two...
my precious

Major Problems with the Balrog
1) Its only slightly taller than gandalf
2) Its clearly a rotoscope of a man wearing a fake lions head, butterfly wings and moon boots
3) It flies like the sh*tty reptile birds in At the Earth's Core
4) its just AWFUL

Other problems:
Aragorn appears to have become a native american (but with John Hurts voice)
Boromir looks frankly ridiculous
Treebeard is a disaster

hmm am i running out of space

actually thats how big a balrog should be

they were actually of basic human form, but slightly larger

Movie Balrog still rocked.

yep it sure did, I like how it spread its wings up and held its fists in, just like it wanted to say "arrrggghhh"

Discos - just like Eagos

Well I liked how PJ did the first movie with the Balrog because at some shots of the Balrog it didn't have wings and at some shots, it did. so fans could continue to debate on if the Balrog had wings or not, but since in TT we finally see that the Balrog have stupid wings that long debate was finished.

Not really
they can change their size - appear bigger when they surround themselves with shadows
But I think in the book the Balrog was twice as tall as Gandalf

Their size (and number) is changed a lot in Tolkien's works, first there were hundreds of Balrogs only a little taller than men, in the end seven Balrogs, but far more mighty.

About the wings thing... I dont think they were supposed to have real wings, I loved how that looked in FoTR (as Kit said ) with the shadows that somehow looked like wings, somehow didnt. Great.

In "Morgoths Ring" Tolkien writes about Balrogs:
"Swiftly they arose, and they passed with winged speed over Hithlum, and they came to Lammoth as a tempest of fire...",
but Tolkien often uses the term "wing" for speed - like in the Lay of Amroth and Nimrodel.

Well, I think you are entirely wrong about the Nazguls- I rate them superior to the move ones.

Time to stick my neck out... I preferred the Ralph Bakshi Cartoon to the new movie... it took fewer liberties with the book, and the Nazgul were far better. FOTR was the best of the movies, but I fell asleep in ROTK... and i first read LOTR when I was 8. I've read it every year since, and the Peter jackson version was just too Hollywood for me.

I saw this version on TV a few years ago,

It so totally SUCKS ASS.

It is soooooooooo gay

eleveninches, watch your language here and don't bash the Bashki version so much.

This 1978 classic is a superb masterpiece of animation.

petitiononline.com/1978lotr/petition.html

Copy this URL into your adress field to sign a petition for Warner Home Video to release this excellent classic in a Special Edition DVD. It certainly deserves it.

can't say I liked it much. especially not Sam

Haha, i found it very enjoyable, but like you said, Sam seemed.......well.........not like Sam. To 'clingy' on Frodo! And his voice got annoying.

Love Gollum though!

too bad Bakshi had no 300 milion Bucks to do his movie, as Peter Jackson did, eh?

yep!

those ringwraiths were pretty bad too

meh, it was good for the time i suppose

what about the Balrog. that was pathetic

well ok...it was pretty bad! but come on! it was good to get the point across!

bah. the bad animation was too distracting for that

The thing i hated were the Orcs where they would change from animation to people like coloured in black with red eyes!

yeah, that was really weird. they did that with the riders of Rohan too

Originally posted by Kitoky
It's interesting to look at the 1978 version of the Lord of the Rings now that the movie has been redone by New Line Cinemas...It's almost laughable-

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/rotk/rotk-1-2259-nazgul.jpg

These are Nazguls!?!? Noooo wayyyyyy.......

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/rotk/rotk-1-2545-palantier.jpg
Denethor and palantir

http://www.lotruk.com/imagelibrary/images/rotk/rotk-2-1621-gollum.jpg

Why does Gollum look like a frog?

Ushgarak's note on the animated versions
Treebeard did look bad.

But there is a SERIOUS mix-up here. Those shots of the Nazgul and Eagles are NOT from Bakshi's animated version, which was very dark and nasty and the Nazguls looked fantastic. Bakshi's version only got to the end of Helms' Deep, remember. There was no Denethor and Palantir and so on.

And that is NOT Gollum. The link given by Kitoky above shows the actual Gollum pics. You have mixed up shots from a DIFFERENT production.

I am a big fan of the animated version and I would ask for accuracy in criticism of it. It was a very well made production and like I say, the Nazguls were far scarier than the ones in the film.

PJ also liked the animated version very much and several scenes in the first two films are taken directly from it. I burrowed that from the librry once... the end was a piss off but it wasnt too bad. Aragorn looked like Galahad...

Yeah, I'm not that big on Rankin/Bass, either. Bakshi's film was cool, though.