Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings (1978) Part 11

[Ectomiel]

Also, Grima is very strange, what with the small stature and the stroking of Theoden's beard/hand. And Eowyn's eyes are enormous. And they did an incredible disservice to the character of Sam.

[Ectomiel]

Love how flamboyant Gandalf is. I remember that he twirled while reciting the inscription on the Ring at Bag End.

[GoldenFlute88]

This version of LOTR doesn't have the same grandeur as Jackon's version, but it is certainly well-done for its time! The movement of each character is so realistic that it really brings them to life!

[sniebow]

Aruman is a cousin of Saruman?

[Atyriss95]

i know its a little past, but what happened to the troll? just another ork? and i agree with 345Doler, no Uruk-Hai?

[SidArthuraSutton]

Sam in this - EQ

Sam in Jacksons - Take me stud

[345Doler]

no uruk-hai?

[Tstearns2012]

What is up with them pronouncing all of the names wrong?!

[SaturnsFlock]

So that's how Gandalf got all the way at the top of that mountain, Jackson didn't make that part clear, it almost seemed as if the bottom of that place he fell into was a snowy mountain top, lol.

[housedemon]

@SaturnsFlock had the same problem :)

[RuleOfTheInternet]

Oh god, this sucks so bad xD

[thecooltactition81]

Wormtongue looks like a pedophile with that pencil-thin mustache lol

[CathannahShowani]

....0_0;; Where'd all those trees come from? Wasn't Rohan a open field?

[RuleOfTheInternet]

@CathannahShowani Read the books

[CathannahShowani]

@RuleOfTheInternet I have.... Rohan was an open field.

[19Marni96]

which is more accurate to the books, this or the cinematic movies

[volkderfreiheitzwei]

@19Marni96 The cinematic movie. But just because the film trilogy has an end (similar to the book's) and because the film trilogy is 12 hours long!!!

I prefer this over the movies because the movies are long, long, long. Although the movies are also epic epic epic, this is a superb competent version.

Verrrry pity that the director did not traspose the last part of the story by making a second & final movie after this wonderful one

[zz13x]

Why do none of the males except Legolas and Grima have pants? Well, I don't know about Gandalf, because of his robes, but still...

[Villemo1990ify]

6:43 Eowyn: "It's the botox. I can't show emotion for another hour."

[lunagata]

Those horns are so... "fearful". Lol

[iouisiuppiter]

@Jakegothicsnake That would be your sister's daughter. A sister daughter would be the female offspring you have via your own mother/father. But honestly I think the actor just misread the line.

[luigirox22]

3:43-3:52 gandalf has his blue robes on

[varghatesyou]

Quit comparing this to the modern movies,this was made in 1978 for 4 million dollars with a ton of studio interference.The modern ones were made for like 240million with little studio interference,if you dont like this movie stop watching it

[TheFAN101]

No, actually, a sister daughter is the kid that you had with your sister. They left out the wild incest that took place in Rohan. And you know how Shadowfax can understand the common speech? That's cause he's the fortunate product of bestiality. >___>

[RichardNixon1969]

Anyone notice that Theoden's daughter looks exactly like Galadriel? They r exactly the same and it's weird!

[chocolatecookie15]

Awww! I totally love the war horns...they sound like mosquitoes!!! X3

[WLibysno]

wormtongue is just stroking theoden's face? 2:12

[greengrendel]

@WLibysno CREEEP! oh god that was so fucking creepy.

[jackdude1118]

9:49 - "Rape!"

[mmmillerlight98]

whats wrong with treebeard

[SombreroKing100]

MY ARMA!!!!

[CtrlRm]

Gandalf! Beyond all hope! Gandalf!

[tegthethird]

Apparently Grima's a hobbit. Who knew?

[trurealdogg]

@tegthethird i dont think so...the feet made me conclude

[tegthethird]

@trurealdogg It was a joke. :)

[tegthethird]

Who the hell is Aruman?

[Jakegothicsnake]

@tegthethird Saruman. They just dropped they S so people wouldn't confuse Saruman with Sauron.

[SansAuthoritas]

@Jakegothicsnake

That doesn't explain why they say "Saruman" 5 more times in this one clip.

[Yabuturtle]

@Jakegothicsnake It doesn't make any sense why they change it to Aruman, because in the earlier parts of the movie when Gandalf met Saruman, he DID pronounce it correctly.

[aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa]

@Yabuturtle they later decided to re-record the dialogue to make them pronouce Saruman correctly, but they missed some parts,

i made an edit that fixes this flaw,

[cleanhomer]

02:12 Eww! Grima is TOO affectionate!

[zbt518]

Are they running in front of a drawing of Half Dome in Yosemite at 3:35???

[JazzFalco]

Okay here's something i never understood, why are so many names said diffirently?

Like sore-ron instead of Sow-ron, and aru-mon istead of sarumon and grime-a instead of greem-a. What's the deal?

[ssjtrunksM]

TURIN TURAMBAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[siryuke]

Why at 1:33 I have the impression that Gandalf is dancing ?

[MssInsaneRaccoon]

the creepy lady who touches the king-guy is A GUY?

[TigerWOo]

RAAAAAPPPEE !

[MasterofArda]

I do love how the flashback balrog looks nothing like the the balrog we see earlier. Continuity is for losers.

[medalgear654]

I cant stand this horns trumpet fuck this

[cboewebra]

the blonde girl in this cartoon is hotter than the actor in the 2003 movie hahaha

[awinterb]

wtf 2:14, brushy brushy!

[hungryhungryhippoMMM]

Gollum knows whats what

Always yell rape if you need immediate help

[hungryhungryhippoMMM]

Lol at the Uruks sitting on the ground like hippies

[andrielisilien]

I think Saruman the "white" is color-blind

[Kenckaplus]

This is when this version rushes and gets really confused, and i bet everyone who hasn't read the books will be lost by this part.

[TheAntiochus]

Why is Aragorn an Indian.

[BiffaTW]

XD liverpudlian gollum!

[GatremagWenYm]

did smeagol scream raped at the end?

[multilater]

gandalf looks like a pimp!

[SilvaAdrianiel]

Oi! They forgot Theodred! Either that or I missed something!

[SilvaAdrianiel]

Augh! Every time I see Estel, I get so mad! He looks ancient! Yes, he's old, but he's a Dunedein for Valar's sake! He has elven blood running in his veins! He should look younger!

[brookefan4ever]

I love how Gimli, the /dwarf/, has the same height as Legolas.

[8000cheese]

wormtongue looks like an overweight hitler

[ivkoacount]

4:03 Voldemort!

[ThePolishGuy26]

Aragorns black?

[RamenXBaka]

Gandalf's Twirl =]

[codyc67]

@alexp9999 LMAO

[Xerxes2005]

@tyrongkojy Eowyn and Eomer are both called Sister Daughter and Sister Son by Theoden. They are both his sister's children. Theoden's only son was called Theodred and he was killed at the Battle of Isen Ford shortly before Gandalf arrives at Edoras. Since Theodred was childless, Eomer is the rightful heir to the throne.

[Jakegothicsnake]

@tyrongkojy I'm positive. I looked up Eowyn on tolkien gateway dot net and it said that her father was another individual and not Theoden, and it said her mother was Theoden's sister. I'm certain Tolkien wouldn't make most of the good cast descended from incestuous ancestry. Why the only account of incest in Tolkien's Middle-Earth was of Turin and his sister, but neither of them knew it until a dragon told his wife/sister that she was her husbands sister and she was pregnant. She killed herself.

[rangey18]

@Jakegothicsnake The father as Eomund.

[Eddtastic100]

@Jakegothicsnake i think her father is called eor or something like that

[SGRollingStone]

Wonder what Frodo is going at 9:11

[Foxstab]

"Then darkness took me and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell."

Sounds like he hit hell...I wonder if he met Drizzt and Elminster on the way. ;P

[otterlover96]

Aragorn seems much more brute and aggressive in this movie, compared to his character in the book, and his character in the peter jackson film. Like if you agree :)

[otterlover96]

Is it just me or is Aragorn kind of aggressive, in the Peter Jackson verison he seems gentler and more epic, and not as brute

[SpanishFlyGuy]

Aragorn = John Red Corn from King of the Hill

[SpanishFlyGuy]

Lovin' Wormtongue's Rat-stache

[IzzyUK]

No Shadowfax?? :(

[appletinihamshire]

i love cartoon legolas. just saying

[altarush]

Aragonsays storm crow to Gandalf and doesn't say to King Theoden that there is hope. He is more like the book then Jackson. Why did Tolkien chose the name Aragon the old name of the spanish kings.

[Somekidcalledmatt]

i hear Gandalf saying, Aroman, is he called Aroman in this film, or is that how Galdalf pronounces it?

[TheVVanderingStar]

Wormtongue's a bit touchy-feely in this isn't he?

[jediking12]

I <3 LOTR

Thumbs up if you <3 it :D

[LuckyBandit75]

Why would they think it was Saruman? Because he is in WHITE here, right? Except he was in RED before. You know, basic COLORS are important guys...This movie actually gets WORSE as it goes along. No small feat.

Saruman performance = sorry. Oh I am sorry, "Aruman." No 'S'. Stupid...

Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are always grumpy and short with each other. Wouldn't know they were friends to listen to them.

[Zatoichi444]

@LuckyBandit75 despite it's faults......this movie had more "feel" of the books than the the live action movies....even though the live action ones were great....this to me "feels" more like the real thing....maybe it's my Elvish eyes seeing things differently.....but I think this movie was way ahead of it's time. and it's clear Jackson borrowed HEAVILY from it....So hath I spoken, and may my words ring true.

[LuckyBandit75]

Why would they think it was Saruman? Because he is in WHITE here, right? Except he was in RED before. You know, basic COLORS are important guys...This movie actually gets WORSE as it goes along. No small feat.

Saruman performance = sorry.

Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are always grumpy and short with each other. Wouldn't know they were friends to listen to them.

[potaoesNgravy]

haha at 1:00 legolas's bow disapears

[LorenzFear]

lol aruman?

[Zatoichi444]

@LorenzFear the asshole movie execs thought Saruman sounded too close to Sauron and would confuse the audience....so they used both....real smart on their part....pfffft.....movie execs think we are all dumb bastards.....but guess who the REAL dumb bastards are? I'll give you a clue....it's not the audience..

[rmar67]

Do they pronounce NOTHING correctly in this movie?

[cujo9]

i think the classic song elouise by the damned is a fitting track to play when gandalf enters the halls of theoden

[drizztdourden66]

What's a sister daughter?

[Jakegothicsnake]

@drizztdourden66 A sister daughter is basically your sister's daughter. In other words your neice.

[drizztdourden66]

@Jakegothicsnake ok, figures. just wanted to make sure though.

[Jakegothicsnake]

@drizztdourden66 No problem. :)

[TheRaenef09]

@drizztdourden66 In creepy hillbilly terms it could mean the daughter you had with your mother. So she'd be your sister and daughter. Just like if you mother's brother married your father's siter their kids would be your double first cousins.

[Tansysmaysigh]

@drizztdourden66 niece

[mcfartson]

@drizztdourden66 a sister daughter is a niece.

[daffodil977]

0:54 Group hug!!!!!!!!!!

[chroniclerofthe70s]

juglis - what is an orc suppose to look like?

[78ghrile]

okay, this movie is racist dude. the orcs act like freakin old african tribes, with their trumbs and what not.

[lokiflash]

@78ghrile lol how many Ralph Bakshi movies have you watched? i'll just put it this way, it was a different time back then.

[cujo9]

@78ghrile the orcs are nothing like african tribes , they're like demonic beings of evil, inhuman nothing remotely human or african .

[GallegoNights]

Wow! Wormtongue is all up in Theodin's grill at 2:15 XD

[gwenstefanis1]

ok this is nowhere near as good as Peter Jacksons movies. Those are so much better!

[Babyfur]

@gwenstefanis1 can't you see past the surface? Bakshi's version has a charm of its own. What's more, it's obvious that Peter Jackson borrowed quite a bit from this one too.

[ESE150]

@Babyfur

The only charm this movie has is in that it's so bad it's good. It even got recapped by The Agony's Booth, for pity's sake.

[Americangal18]

@gwenstefanis1 it was the 70's dude.

[ESE150]

@Americangal18

So? Star Wars IV was made in the 70's, yet it's superior to any of the SW films produced in the 2000's. Just because a movie is old, that doesn't justify its suckiness.

[Defender78]

huh, sister/daugher Eowyn? at 6:44) did i miss someting here?

[brmadman4455]

wormtounge is a creepy little fucker isn't he

[Opal626]

Theoden?! Dude, it's the king from Disney's Gummi Bears! Eowyn? I don't see her. But why is Eowyn's old mother standing near Theoden? I thought she died many years ago.

[EvangelineSky]

The flashback story scenes from 0:59 on are so epic. I really like how they were drawn...

[WestAero13]

Ewyin is UGLY! Her eyes are like an owls! Why can't this movie draw pretty ladies without the werid eyes?

[crucko1]

does anyone know who Nurgle is? nothing to do with LOTR but a great fantasy Demon?

[Andracor]

Aragorn is there any hope for us? Aragorn:...............(rides away) XD

[PuppyDawg1022]

at the it it sounded like GRAPE

[Zhqrxt]

Love the Balrog in the 1:10 parts. I remember the painting from some Magazine back then and thought that it was pretty accurate to how i pictured the Balrog in the books. Jacksons Balrog is allso awesome though, was amazed to se how much work he put into this ancient evil thing.

[pspboy7]

There was one thing that always bugged me about the PJ movies, Gandalf actually endorsed the use of Helms Deep in The Two Towers, instead of saying it was a trap, like in the books. This version was at least more accurate than the PJ movies. Make no mistake, I liked the PJ movies a lot, but still...

[daffodil977]

gandalf looks like he dumped a TON of bleach on his clothes

[Simeo15]

funny dawg

[SheilaCarterFan23]

christopher lee makes a better saruman

[skeeterd5150]

Treebeard has a big ass

[UnidentifiedSpoon]

4:22 Eowyn's eyes have no pupils. Gasp!

[UnidentifiedSpoon]

If you pause it at 0:49, Gandalf's face is PRICELESS.

"Oooooh lookit dearest, an antiques shop!"

[KGYngram]

Awesome adaption for sure.

Except for the not-so-subtle rotoscoping. Holy shit, it looks bad.

[Stopmotionist]

@KGYngram

That's not rotoscoping. That's places where they just didn't do it. This cartoon was never finished, but it was released anyway.

[Angelxofxhavok]

Gryma in Aidoras?

[ancalites]

The fireball shooting past at 1:01 sounds like an X-Wing

[bangheart]

Grima sure likes theldons beards ;D 2:11

[juglis]

am i the only one that thinks that the orcs look like crap?

I mean, the animation of the fellowship characters is wonderful. But the orcs and the black riders were just a mess.

[Stopmotionist]

@juglis

That's because they never got around to actually animating them. The animation in this movie was done by tracing real actors, but they were only able to animate the main characters before money ran out.

And they released it theatrically anyway.

[Meymeygwis]

No matter how you spin it, the "Aruman" foible is weird and made even more confusing by their inconsistent use of it. This being said, this depiction of LOTR is in some ways more true to the story than the recent movies. Thanks for posting!

[StreetFightBroadcast]

For all you idiots who can't count to 10 they sis not include the "S" in "Saruman" because they were afraid that the children watching this would confuse him with "Sauron" it was not an error in the script.

[Jakegothicsnake]

Yes. Exactly.

[Maxthemetalkid]

@Jakegothicsnake That explains it. Nostalgia Critic was kinda disappointed in that.

[ToneeRhianRose]

The thing is though that when Gandalf goes to see him in the beginning of the movie, he calls him Saruman when he's talking to him.

[ToneeRhianRose]

And there's a few times in this part where Aragorn calls him Saruman too.

[imasinnerimasaint]

@ToneeRhianRose Exactly. It's not consistent.

[ToneeRhianRose]

@imasinnerimasaint Yeah I think it would've been better had Rankin & Bass done this 1 like they did The Hobbit & The Return of the King. Their monsters looked better IMHO.

[Stopmotionist]

@StreetFightBroadcast

Even if that's the case, they still pronounce the S half of the time. So, yeah, there IS a retarded error, however you look at it.

Besides, I find it hard to believe that anybody could confuse the two when these clowns pronounces "Sauron" as "Soron".

[str8edge09]

grima is soo creepy in this

[AVGN4life1]

9:48

.....did gollum just yell rape

[Jakegothicsnake]

No, he yelled "Wraith!". Because riding on top of that monster dragon/dinosaur thing is a ring wraith.

[AVGN4life1]

@Jakegothicsnake i was jokeing

[Jakegothicsnake]

Oh, sorry........

[Vanaathiel]

@Jakegothicsnake lol you defend these movies like crazy, even against sarcasm

[Jakegothicsnake]

@Vanaathiel Well, I don't know about "crazy" but I will be honest, I am sick and tired of people always going saying either "Peter Jackson's was better!!" or "This version is better than Jackson's!!" I mean c'mon people! Give it a rest! BOTH versions have their own ubique charm! ARGH!>_<

[Vanaathiel]

@Jakegothicsnake I suppose, but to some people Jackson's is better, or this one is better. It's their opinion. If it bugs you so much why not just ignore the comments? Half the time people say what they say on here to get a rise out of others anyway :S

[daffodil977]

@Jakegothicsnake Well said!

[evantrude]

not forgetting rankin bass's adaptations ofcourse

[ScarletFlamia]

@Jakegothicsnake You mean the charm of cheap animation tricks and the lamest Balrog of all history? Sure =P

[ESE150]

@Jakegothicsnake

BULLSHIT. This movie is huge mess and if you disagree, your opinion is factually wrong. The character designs are ridiculous (especially Sam, Aragorn, Elrond, Boromir, and the Balrog), the pacing in most scenes is terrible, the scenes that use live actors look awful, and the dialogue is cringe worthy. The only reason why people think this movie is decent is because they look at it with rose-tinted nostalgia glasses. Google "the agony booth lord of the rings" and get a clue.

[LeannefunkE]

@ESE150

For the 70s though, this was some good shit.

I think the reason all you people are complaining about how god awful horrible this is, is because you compare this to the new movies, not the books.

You guys think the characters look wrong because you've all accepted the Jackson characters are the "Right" versions.

If you guys would read the books you would know that a lot of this dialogue is straight from the books.

[Toughnuffet]

@Jakegothicsnake No, actually he's been held captive by the Hobbits. Gollum's an emaciated Jewish child kept captive by two German midget sexual predators that use the image of 'hobbits' as a front for their schemes. When Gollum sees the flying beast, it's the equivalent of seeing a police squad car. Prudently, he calls for help by shouting rape. Bakshi was very instrumental on bringing awareness towards this subject.

[lokiflash]

@AVGN4life1 lol thats awsome. he says "Wraith!" incase you honestly didn't notice lol

[altarush]

@AVGN4life1 It sounds like it

[TiaChurch]

Gandalph is lying about the whole Balrog battle thing, he was drunk the whole time--that's the real story.

[t0mh3]

They REALLY should have hired someone for this movie who actually KNOWS HOW TO PLAY A HORN!

Boromir's horn was awfull and all horns in this movie sound like some whining bee.

[ExaggeratedElegy]

SSSSSSSSaruman! It's SSSSSaruman, for Morgoth's sake!

[MetaICowboy]

lololol

[fauxsham]

@ExaggeratedElegy I was just yelling that at the screen.

[Rymc2]

yeah its bloody annoying how they can't prenounce the s'

[19eightysleven]

lol i love that you a) posted all these, and b) warned youtube not to tamper.... classic balls

[1234567890NRM]

ty for posting man