Lord of the Rings Animated Version - 1978

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-

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

Denethor and palantir

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.

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