It's interesting watching this AFTER seeing Peter Jackson's live action version. He MUST have been inspired by this. Even many of the camera angles are exactly the same!
I persoanally like this version as i remember my mum and dad taking my to our local flea pit cinema to see it . Shame the second part never got made. There is another film i think must be by the same guy as the technique is identical , it was called The Wizards or maybe just Wizards . It was very unsual.
@skidsolo69 the family of the writer didnt like the style of this film so they had the animators of the hobbit cartoon make the last part 'return of the king" . a little more kid friendly but too late cause peter jackson was already hooked by then. i think the movies follow the cartoons more than the books
Interesting. But where's the second part of the story?
And also, does anyone else hate how in all the animated films they make Sam ugly and Frodo handsome. It just extremly bothers me. ANd I know in the book it says he's "plain" but that Sam talking, and we all know he's very humble. Just making a point.
at 9 min gandalf is speaking the language on the ring (ancient elvish), but in the book he said that he wouldn't speak it because it is the language of mordor
Although it is true that part of the issue some have with this film is that Saruman is called Aruman, upon my most recent viewing, I noticed several occasions where he is actually distinctly called "Saruman."
Why does everything seem to end in a competition? I always enjoy seeing different versions of Bilbo and LOTR. If I had made a film it wouldn't have been exactly the same, but it's interesting to see how we picture things differently when reading the book(s)
i know its from the 70's, but i mean come on, this is really bad. i wanted to watch it to see how it compares with the book and Peter Jackson's version. not impressed, but again, i guess its what they could do for the time that it was made.
This is truer to the books but that's all I can give it. Watching this makes me love Peter Jackson's versions that much more. I love the characters, action, comedy, and Sam in Jackson's films. I can't stand Sam in this version. Boromir's a viking, Gimli's as tall as Legolas and Aragorn looks so old! I know he's 87 but he's not suppose to look it. The Nazgul act like zombies. Gollum sounds - bleh, give me Andy Serkis any day! I love Peter Jackson's trilogy! Not as book true but way more EPIC!
@MrTEHCOMEDIAN Oh right, thanks for reminding me. You DONT have a taste:) So I suggest you to check Jacksons Bad taste instead of those 3 totally spoiled cartoons for masses. I just admit that The Fellowship is the best of em. And I enjoyed Mckellens and Astins performances.
@TMNTCountryDragon Well, not everyone agrees about Jackson's movies. I can't stand them, man. They are really cheesy. I will go so far as to say that they are "dangerously cheesy". The last time I hashed this out with someone who says they liked them, he had to admit that after everything I pointed out he couldn't help but kind of hate them. And that's how it is. I love LOTR, and NONE of my gripes are about being close to the book. They are just typical, cheesy Hollywood slick. No soul.
1. Frodo horribly miscast. Frodo isn't Conan, but he isn't a pale, shivering doe-eyed asthmatic, either. No offense to the actor, but it's wrong.
2. Gollum portrayed as a pale, shivering doe-eyed asthmatic. Gollum and Frodo both deserve a sturdier portrayal. Not bad-asses, just capable enough to accomplish what the story requires. It's unbelievable.
3. Whiney-Ass Score. The main theme motif sounds like fucking soap opera music. Why did they make it that way?
@leeham991 No, because I don't have the ridiculous sense of self-entitlement that much of my generation has. I never said the Jackson stuff was "a piece of shit."
Your statement is bullshit. Makes you sound like one of those morons who deliberately hates anything new just so you can comment on videos of old things with "I'm only 14, but I still love this!" and get other morons to vote the comment up.
This film is a piece of shit. It was a piece of shit when it was made (hence almost total obscurity and the scrapping of the sequel) and it's still a piece of shit now as can be plainly seen by scrolling up and pressing play.
@leeham991 You've got me all wrong. Corny and cheesy are different than shitty. But first, Jackson drew inspiration from Bakshi's movie to make his own version, especially because he saw that movie before he read the book. Bakshi's movie was pretty successful in the 70s and why the sequel wasn't produced was a messy studio/finance matter. What we need to get out in the open here is that the 70s movie is a Bakshi movie, and like everything he's made, very personal and stylized. (cont.)
@leeham991 Jackson's movie are bald-faced cinematic spectacles geared to appeal to as many ticket buyers as possible. Like it or not, Jackson's LOTR smashes Tolkien's story into typical Hollywood style formulas (that's the cheese you smell), with the express intent of remaking LOTR into the Star Wars of a new generation. Read my previous list of laughably inane moments in these movies to see the effect that had.
The Peter Jackson trilogy didn't break down the story any more or less than needed, or any more or less than any film or radio series before it.
The Lord of the Rings audiobook alone is near 4 days long, and imagine how much extra time would be put into it with the visual elements. A direct translation from the book is neither possible, nor entirely exciting. As good as his story was, Tolkein's characters were never written to be believable outside of the pages of the book
@leeham991 I don't mind at all when movies based on books stray away from the source material, as long as the feeling and tone are captured correctly. The Secret of NIMH, Fight Club, Naked Lunch, Blader Runner... some of these movies a way different than the book but the tone is still the same. A scene where Frodo jumps around rocks like a Zelda game is disappointing to me in the context of LOTR. They weren't taking it very seriously, so I don't either. Seems fair.
@leeham991 Well, I enjoyed discussing this with you. I will point out a few things that I really liked about Jackson's LOTR: Samwise. The casting and performance for Sam couldn't have been done better. That was Tolkien's character jumping out of the book and coming to life. The same goes for Gandalf and Saruman, minus the silly wizard fight. Still, you're talking to someone who loves David Lynch's Dune, so what the hell do I know, right? Peace.
.... He also structured it in a way that could not work in visual entertainment and had many events which added nothing to the story and while they work in the book, could never work on screen.
Peter Jackson's trilogy did what it could, and it did it well, certainly much better than any previous attempt on screen before it. Would have been nice to see more of the BBC radio series seep into the films through the shared writers, but as it turned out it did brilliantly.
I agree with you, Tolkien's works are marvelous pieces of literature, but to make any adaptation that is in a visual medium, you'll have to get rid of some things that aren't exactly important to the story or could be made into a scene that's overall, a shorter scene, an example would be the Tom Bombadil exclusion in the movie, with a visual format, Bombadil's scene would've been 30-50 minutes, as opposed to the 20 or so minute Weathertop scene, plus, Bombadil's scene isn't exactly my favourite
The book is great for what it is, the BBC radio series is great because it takes the book and makes it digestable, the Peter Jackson films are great because they make Middle Earth believable and come to life.
This however had added nothing, and is nothing. It looks lazily made, the story is massively rushed, missing out far too much to even make sense in itself, the voice acting is embarrassing and even the music is pitiful. And don't get me started on the artistic ideas.
@TheKwistazHaderach I ain't gonna get into a disagreement with you. I have too much love and respect for these movies and books for you to ruin them for me. I get enough hate from my sister. Nothing you say will change my mind. LOTR die-hard fans and haters won't ever get along but I'll just say LOTR: Return of the King tied with Titanic and Ben Hur for most Oscars won. Say what you will but ROTK will always have 11 Oscars and millions of forever fans.
@TMNTCountryDragon It's fine if you don't want to discuss this on YouTube with a stranger. Maybe your sister gives you hate, but I'm not bringing hatred. My father digs these movies and he's the one that introduced me to the books in the first place. I've had many discussions about Jackson's movies with him just like this and he still likes them. I think it sucks to see people dis this older movie when the new one has plenty of its own cheesy moments to go around. It's an unfair comparison.
@TMNTCountryDragon One more thing. As an answer to your justification that ROTK is a great movie because it's won academy awards, I'd assume you'd be a huge fan of Whitney Houston as well. Awards are politcal.
@frankytap I think the animation looks great in Bakshi's movie, but the animation technique was not new at all. Disney rotoscoped the hell out of Snow White, their first movie, and it wasn't new even then. Bakshi did bring it to another level with his movies, not a level that everyone can appreciate, but I do. I love how sometimes you can see through the paint at the live actors underneath. It just looks so cool, and it's a very fitting look for LOTR.
I can't even begin to describe all the issues i have with this film. Corny live action bits, aragorn is like native with a sour voice, boromir is a viking, sam is.....i dont even know what they were doing with sam, simply ridiculous.
Realmente uma obra de arte soberba esta animação de Lord of the rings!! Os cenários são luxuriantemente pintados, e muitas outras coisas estão mais próximas de como eu sempre imaginei lendo o livro. Pelo que eu soube por um artigo da época do Reader Digest, foram empregados muitos pintores para trabalharem nos cenários e na concepção geral. Considero, em todos os sentidos, este desenho muito superior como adaptação do livro, ao filme mais recente (também excelente). Animação extraordinária!!!
I think it's rather interesting to compare this to Alan Lee's drawings (and some others') and Peter Jackson's movies. I've watched about 20 minutes of this and it just looks the same!
I like the seriousness and the dark tone to the whole thing! Is more of a "story" in the sense of an illustrated book. The animation looks creepy, to me. I remember watching this when I was a kid and I couldn't really understand if those where animated cartoons or real people.
@xxl0lr0flxx First and foremost, THERE'D HAVE BEEN NO STORY. Secondly, they'd have been vulnerable to intercept by Nazgul and/or orc arrow from Mordor's army, delivering the One Ring to Sauron airmail. In The Hobbit, Gwaihir explains how he befriended Gandalf after having been shot down by orc arrow. There was also the risk of the ring deciding to leap off over Mordor of its own accord. When the eagles do appear in force, it's as part of a combined arms operation.
This is an amazing feature of a movie. Think about when its made and the mood it captures. You are so quick to compare it to Peter Jacksons, but the two are uncomparable sizes kids. See this for the movie it is. Saw it when i was a child and I loved it from the first time. It was one of my first entry steps into the world of fantasy. Especially the shifting reality scenes with the riders and the battle at helms deep are amazing
@73efarta You're right I saw many things that are shooted in the same way in Peter Jackson's movies. But I don't think he "copied" them, I'd rather say he "quoted" elements from a movie that maybe was the first good attempt to picture Tolkien's huge world and that he simply liked or wanted to be remembered ! Maybe he owes a lot to this animated movie of the 70's... We should ask him ! :-)
@ZeMushroom Jackson at first denied knowing this film and then later admitted he was a long time fan of it. This was definitely an influence on Jackson.
@HorstQueck Yeah, it's called rotoscoping. It's an animation technique where the filmmakers first film live action actors acting out the scenes, and then those scenes are traced onto animation cels. That's why the movements seem live.
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holyfrancis 3 hours ago
the balrog looks really bad... 1:06:29
holyfrancis 3 hours ago
why....are they so ugly lol...its scary ugly
boffgirl 7 hours ago
46:22 - "Please, please find a way to get me out of this ludicrous movie."
St4rdog 12 hours ago
It's interesting watching this AFTER seeing Peter Jackson's live action version. He MUST have been inspired by this. Even many of the camera angles are exactly the same!
katinaanimator 1 day ago
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DaniJCast 1 day ago
wow, this bridge of khazad dum is really powerfull!
staydatie 1 day ago
Does anyone know the name of the narrator? I wonder which is his accent with his rolling RR?
xaot23 1 day ago
Crazy Purple Knockout Gas at 22:30 !!!
RedStormCommingIn 2 days ago
Why does everyone in this movie walk with a limp o_O
RedStormCommingIn 2 days ago
So orcs are really niggers, right?
RedStormCommingIn 2 days ago
except a fucking....
Althanarpremium 3 days ago
I persoanally like this version as i remember my mum and dad taking my to our local flea pit cinema to see it . Shame the second part never got made. There is another film i think must be by the same guy as the technique is identical , it was called The Wizards or maybe just Wizards . It was very unsual.
skidsolo69 3 days ago
@skidsolo69 the family of the writer didnt like the style of this film so they had the animators of the hobbit cartoon make the last part 'return of the king" . a little more kid friendly but too late cause peter jackson was already hooked by then. i think the movies follow the cartoons more than the books
abejlt 1 day ago
Interesting. But where's the second part of the story?
And also, does anyone else hate how in all the animated films they make Sam ugly and Frodo handsome. It just extremly bothers me. ANd I know in the book it says he's "plain" but that Sam talking, and we all know he's very humble. Just making a point.
readingthelibrary97 3 days ago
This is awesome. Where is the second part?
koisumaz2000 4 days ago
@koisumaz2000 It was never made, however an unofficial sequel called The Return of The King was made by Rankin-Bass studios.
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YonaArieFeinberg 5 days ago
Samwise is...a creeper. D:
ScoriumTheVA 5 days ago
@ScoriumTheVA I find Gandalf almost as creepy. almost.
thepuzzler6 4 days ago
Gimli is tall as fuck
danschmidt1995 5 days ago 3
"Is that a Hobbit?"
"No. It is a hobo and a rabbit. But they are making a hobbit."
losttribe3001 6 days ago
lol boromirs beard looks like balls
and somethin is terribly wrong with the sound
TheLardoization 1 week ago
´;.:,` epic
Tricky87dk 1 week ago
also the first ringwraith is all like 'ahh, ooh, ohh, ehh ,uhhh'
DeathrangeMcNugget 1 week ago
at 9 min gandalf is speaking the language on the ring (ancient elvish), but in the book he said that he wouldn't speak it because it is the language of mordor
DeathrangeMcNugget 1 week ago
1:06:34 wow scary balrog.....
liz1dancer 1 week ago
Not sure if it is my computer but I find the image and the sound are not in synch. Is anybody else having this problem??
Delisle4 1 week ago 19
@Delisle4 ya, as the movie progresses it gets more out of synch
chrisrocks741 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
56:10 Eggroll..... EGGROLLLLL
RuuRuRusty 1 week ago
i was 6 when this debuted wow amazing even today
36hcupsizeandgrowing 1 week ago 2
Although it is true that part of the issue some have with this film is that Saruman is called Aruman, upon my most recent viewing, I noticed several occasions where he is actually distinctly called "Saruman."
vexx801 1 week ago
i'm not so sure if this is what i was looking for... i think maybe a year ago they released a new animated lord of the rings. but this is old. o.o
nastenkakoza1 1 week ago
The voice of Frodo sounds a lot like Elijah Wood.
0Fallacy 1 week ago
Why does everything seem to end in a competition? I always enjoy seeing different versions of Bilbo and LOTR. If I had made a film it wouldn't have been exactly the same, but it's interesting to see how we picture things differently when reading the book(s)
wwwonderful 1 week ago 5
This is what Jackson's films would have been if Miramax had made it into two movies lol
BonesUk1980 1 week ago
Why is Russell Brand playing Frodo???
BonesUk1980 1 week ago
This first 20 seconds or so sounded pretty good.
Then the movie started :(
RedStormCommingIn 1 week ago 3
@RedStormCommingIn hahahahah to you!
Cap285 1 week ago
All I can say right now, is, "Thank you Lord for Peter Jackson."
hiccuprocks101 1 week ago
why do the people at the inn bar look so... realistic..
TheWollenstubby8th 1 week ago
@TheWollenstubby8th rotoscope.
terrortorn 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
Gandalfs eyes... O_O
TheWollenstubby8th 1 week ago
OMG Aragorn looks like that really scary drunk old neighbor of mine..
Mary42877 1 week ago
This Gandalf is really creepy, and Frodo is a girl... no wonder I never watched these as a kid.
lotrsingwrite 1 week ago
atleast i know why this movie adaptation was never finished.....
TheTrueScource 1 week ago
2:11:44 Janet Cummings??? WTF
haleyboy2001 1 week ago
Legolas is so hideous that it startled me many times.
leeham991 2 weeks ago
Really it's no wonder the sequel was scrapped.
leeham991 2 weeks ago
As a child I found this highly annoying, but as an adult it's funny.
leeham991 2 weeks ago
Some parts are animation masterpieces, doesn't matter what you think about LOTR or Jackson's... movie.
TheKey273 2 weeks ago
1:18:00 Bobo, smrade...xD hahahah
9Velja9 2 weeks ago
i know its from the 70's, but i mean come on, this is really bad. i wanted to watch it to see how it compares with the book and Peter Jackson's version. not impressed, but again, i guess its what they could do for the time that it was made.
xbryman92x 2 weeks ago
legolas looks like a queer in this
Coolz444 2 weeks ago
Their faces are priceless:D
Spectans1 2 weeks ago
32:20 lol
Jasmin2977 2 weeks ago
You shall not pass!!!!!
9Velja9 2 weeks ago
their faces are fun
CumSlurp 2 weeks ago
This is truer to the books but that's all I can give it. Watching this makes me love Peter Jackson's versions that much more. I love the characters, action, comedy, and Sam in Jackson's films. I can't stand Sam in this version. Boromir's a viking, Gimli's as tall as Legolas and Aragorn looks so old! I know he's 87 but he's not suppose to look it. The Nazgul act like zombies. Gollum sounds - bleh, give me Andy Serkis any day! I love Peter Jackson's trilogy! Not as book true but way more EPIC!
TMNTCountryDragon 2 weeks ago
@TMNTCountryDragon yeah amen to your comment - this fucking sucks bigtime
jackson gave the original faggot material a hard edge which made the movies BETTER than the books
the books were fucking DRY and BORING as fuck
MrTEHCOMEDIAN 2 weeks ago
@MrTEHCOMEDIAN IM sorry to tell you this but, you are retarded.
Spectans1 2 weeks ago
@Spectans1 Because I have taste?
enjoy this piece of shit - its what you deserve
MrTEHCOMEDIAN 2 weeks ago
@MrTEHCOMEDIAN Oh right, thanks for reminding me. You DONT have a taste:) So I suggest you to check Jacksons Bad taste instead of those 3 totally spoiled cartoons for masses. I just admit that The Fellowship is the best of em. And I enjoyed Mckellens and Astins performances.
Spectans1 2 weeks ago
@Spectans1 Fellowship deserved the Oscar IMO - NOT ROTK
I agree with you on that point - but this still sucks
MrTEHCOMEDIAN 2 weeks ago
@MrTEHCOMEDIAN Sup', troll?
TheKwistazHaderach 2 weeks ago
@TMNTCountryDragon Well, not everyone agrees about Jackson's movies. I can't stand them, man. They are really cheesy. I will go so far as to say that they are "dangerously cheesy". The last time I hashed this out with someone who says they liked them, he had to admit that after everything I pointed out he couldn't help but kind of hate them. And that's how it is. I love LOTR, and NONE of my gripes are about being close to the book. They are just typical, cheesy Hollywood slick. No soul.
Peace.
TheKwistazHaderach 2 weeks ago
@TheKwistazHaderach not trying to start an argument, but im just wondering what you think is cheesy about Peter Jackson's LOTR films?
xbryman92x 2 weeks ago
@xbryman92x
1. Merry/Pippins wacky fireworks hijinks
2. Gandalf/Samuran's Mortal Kombat fight
3. Arowyn casts river spell, not Gandalf
4. Bilbo's half-second gremlin face
5. Fellowship jump falling pillars in Moria like the Super Mario Bros. (I cracked up the first time I saw that shit. I couldn't believe it)
6. The Eye of Sauron is literally a GIANT EYE.
7. Gollum's stupid-ass face he pulls as he melts into lava.
That's just what I can remember now. I haven't seen them in a while.
TheKwistazHaderach 2 weeks ago
@xbryman92x And, beyond the cheese:
1. Frodo horribly miscast. Frodo isn't Conan, but he isn't a pale, shivering doe-eyed asthmatic, either. No offense to the actor, but it's wrong.
2. Gollum portrayed as a pale, shivering doe-eyed asthmatic. Gollum and Frodo both deserve a sturdier portrayal. Not bad-asses, just capable enough to accomplish what the story requires. It's unbelievable.
3. Whiney-Ass Score. The main theme motif sounds like fucking soap opera music. Why did they make it that way?
TheKwistazHaderach 2 weeks ago
@TheKwistazHaderach
So in other words you wanted it to be as much a piece of shit as this piece of shit?
leeham991 1 week ago
@leeham991 No, because I don't have the ridiculous sense of self-entitlement that much of my generation has. I never said the Jackson stuff was "a piece of shit."
TheKwistazHaderach 1 week ago
@TheKwistazHaderach
Your statement is bullshit. Makes you sound like one of those morons who deliberately hates anything new just so you can comment on videos of old things with "I'm only 14, but I still love this!" and get other morons to vote the comment up.
This film is a piece of shit. It was a piece of shit when it was made (hence almost total obscurity and the scrapping of the sequel) and it's still a piece of shit now as can be plainly seen by scrolling up and pressing play.
leeham991 1 week ago
@leeham991 You've got me all wrong. Corny and cheesy are different than shitty. But first, Jackson drew inspiration from Bakshi's movie to make his own version, especially because he saw that movie before he read the book. Bakshi's movie was pretty successful in the 70s and why the sequel wasn't produced was a messy studio/finance matter. What we need to get out in the open here is that the 70s movie is a Bakshi movie, and like everything he's made, very personal and stylized. (cont.)
TheKwistazHaderach 1 week ago
@leeham991 Jackson's movie are bald-faced cinematic spectacles geared to appeal to as many ticket buyers as possible. Like it or not, Jackson's LOTR smashes Tolkien's story into typical Hollywood style formulas (that's the cheese you smell), with the express intent of remaking LOTR into the Star Wars of a new generation. Read my previous list of laughably inane moments in these movies to see the effect that had.
TheKwistazHaderach 1 week ago
@TheKwistazHaderach
The Peter Jackson trilogy didn't break down the story any more or less than needed, or any more or less than any film or radio series before it.
The Lord of the Rings audiobook alone is near 4 days long, and imagine how much extra time would be put into it with the visual elements. A direct translation from the book is neither possible, nor entirely exciting. As good as his story was, Tolkein's characters were never written to be believable outside of the pages of the book
leeham991 1 week ago
@leeham991 I don't mind at all when movies based on books stray away from the source material, as long as the feeling and tone are captured correctly. The Secret of NIMH, Fight Club, Naked Lunch, Blader Runner... some of these movies a way different than the book but the tone is still the same. A scene where Frodo jumps around rocks like a Zelda game is disappointing to me in the context of LOTR. They weren't taking it very seriously, so I don't either. Seems fair.
TheKwistazHaderach 1 week ago
Whatever.
leeham991 1 week ago
@leeham991 Well, I enjoyed discussing this with you. I will point out a few things that I really liked about Jackson's LOTR: Samwise. The casting and performance for Sam couldn't have been done better. That was Tolkien's character jumping out of the book and coming to life. The same goes for Gandalf and Saruman, minus the silly wizard fight. Still, you're talking to someone who loves David Lynch's Dune, so what the hell do I know, right? Peace.
TheKwistazHaderach 5 days ago
@TheKwistazHaderach
.... He also structured it in a way that could not work in visual entertainment and had many events which added nothing to the story and while they work in the book, could never work on screen.
Peter Jackson's trilogy did what it could, and it did it well, certainly much better than any previous attempt on screen before it. Would have been nice to see more of the BBC radio series seep into the films through the shared writers, but as it turned out it did brilliantly.
leeham991 1 week ago
I agree with you, Tolkien's works are marvelous pieces of literature, but to make any adaptation that is in a visual medium, you'll have to get rid of some things that aren't exactly important to the story or could be made into a scene that's overall, a shorter scene, an example would be the Tom Bombadil exclusion in the movie, with a visual format, Bombadil's scene would've been 30-50 minutes, as opposed to the 20 or so minute Weathertop scene, plus, Bombadil's scene isn't exactly my favourite
deeth5 1 week ago
@TheKwistazHaderach
The book is great for what it is, the BBC radio series is great because it takes the book and makes it digestable, the Peter Jackson films are great because they make Middle Earth believable and come to life.
This however had added nothing, and is nothing. It looks lazily made, the story is massively rushed, missing out far too much to even make sense in itself, the voice acting is embarrassing and even the music is pitiful. And don't get me started on the artistic ideas.
leeham991 1 week ago
@TheKwistazHaderach I ain't gonna get into a disagreement with you. I have too much love and respect for these movies and books for you to ruin them for me. I get enough hate from my sister. Nothing you say will change my mind. LOTR die-hard fans and haters won't ever get along but I'll just say LOTR: Return of the King tied with Titanic and Ben Hur for most Oscars won. Say what you will but ROTK will always have 11 Oscars and millions of forever fans.
TMNTCountryDragon 1 week ago
@TMNTCountryDragon It's fine if you don't want to discuss this on YouTube with a stranger. Maybe your sister gives you hate, but I'm not bringing hatred. My father digs these movies and he's the one that introduced me to the books in the first place. I've had many discussions about Jackson's movies with him just like this and he still likes them. I think it sucks to see people dis this older movie when the new one has plenty of its own cheesy moments to go around. It's an unfair comparison.
TheKwistazHaderach 1 week ago
@TMNTCountryDragon One more thing. As an answer to your justification that ROTK is a great movie because it's won academy awards, I'd assume you'd be a huge fan of Whitney Houston as well. Awards are politcal.
TheKwistazHaderach 1 week ago
Jeez. Gandalf is a feckin psycho in this version!
gaarastar57 2 weeks ago
This version is much better than Peter Jacksons, and also a bit truer to the books
Galimah 2 weeks ago
you know the black rider isn't a zombie right ?
or is it D:
frntfrnt 2 weeks ago
Actually, very good animation.
Mazurka1001 2 weeks ago
That sucked its nothing like the awesome lord of the rings reaturn of the king cartoon with towers of the teeth and stuff
225o1sam 2 weeks ago
first movie to use a new(new for its time) animation technology that we see in modern animation movies (not the 3d ones ofc)
frankytap 2 weeks ago
@frankytap
Is that the technology of putting a dodgy photoshop looking filter over live action shots and making them slightly blurry?
leeham991 2 weeks ago
@frankytap I think the animation looks great in Bakshi's movie, but the animation technique was not new at all. Disney rotoscoped the hell out of Snow White, their first movie, and it wasn't new even then. Bakshi did bring it to another level with his movies, not a level that everyone can appreciate, but I do. I love how sometimes you can see through the paint at the live actors underneath. It just looks so cool, and it's a very fitting look for LOTR.
TheKwistazHaderach 2 weeks ago
I used to watch this a lot when I was a kid. I really have to read the books....
HowlMagic95 2 weeks ago
Aragon its sou fuking old jajajajajaja
MrJfischer1000 2 weeks ago
Why is everyones eyes open so wide
13nexter45 2 weeks ago
I can't even begin to describe all the issues i have with this film. Corny live action bits, aragorn is like native with a sour voice, boromir is a viking, sam is.....i dont even know what they were doing with sam, simply ridiculous.
Pyrodisaster 2 weeks ago
@85WAR10CK He's "special".
deathtap 2 weeks ago
Its funny how Frodo looks and sounds like Elijah Wood :D
MsBrainerTrainer 2 weeks ago
Realmente uma obra de arte soberba esta animação de Lord of the rings!! Os cenários são luxuriantemente pintados, e muitas outras coisas estão mais próximas de como eu sempre imaginei lendo o livro. Pelo que eu soube por um artigo da época do Reader Digest, foram empregados muitos pintores para trabalharem nos cenários e na concepção geral. Considero, em todos os sentidos, este desenho muito superior como adaptação do livro, ao filme mais recente (também excelente). Animação extraordinária!!!
pitzernaldo 2 weeks ago
I think it's rather interesting to compare this to Alan Lee's drawings (and some others') and Peter Jackson's movies. I've watched about 20 minutes of this and it just looks the same!
skellez83 2 weeks ago
I like the seriousness and the dark tone to the whole thing! Is more of a "story" in the sense of an illustrated book. The animation looks creepy, to me. I remember watching this when I was a kid and I couldn't really understand if those where animated cartoons or real people.
skellez83 2 weeks ago
Why does Aragorn look Mexican or something? haha - thanks for uploading this though, ive been meaning to watch this for a while now :)
Dovahkiin83 3 weeks ago
Why did they ruin Sam?
maggiemay2020 3 weeks ago
I have this movie on VHS, my dad transferred it to DVD... I tried to make my friends watch it and they just died inside... Oh childhood.
Ibrainmydamaged 3 weeks ago
Why is Boromir a viking?
snypervyper 3 weeks ago
One does not simply retard into Mordor...
roxterat 3 weeks ago
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clohissyakxuq 3 weeks ago
Love it Bilbo leading a elfven hippie drum circle. HaHaHaHa
Cylon197504 3 weeks ago
Named Saruman the White. Wear's a red robe. =/
darkarm3rocks 3 weeks ago 16
@darkarm3rocks He is no longer Saruman the white, he gave up his title, in the book his robes change colour as he walks?
snypervyper 3 weeks ago
@darkarm3rocks Read the books please before you make yourself look like a dumbass. Saruman the White becomes Saruman the Many Coloured.
TheManMostMysterious 3 weeks ago
7:58 0.0 O
darkarm3rocks 3 weeks ago
Aragorn is Javier Bardem..
Lucassssization 3 weeks ago
so balrog flies onto bridge, but cannot stop himself from falling?
MrLifeRec 3 weeks ago
How can they be Riders in Black... if they are brown?
southpaw20001 3 weeks ago
Y U NO PUT TOM BOMBADIL IN ANYTHING!!!!
SirRob7 3 weeks ago
@SirRob7 TOM IS AMAZING
MrLifeRec 3 weeks ago
@SirRob7 It's the film... although yeah, Tom Bombadil is a pro
snypervyper 3 weeks ago
The black riders are more scary in the anime-version....
blueelf4ever 3 weeks ago
There is a second part of this?
1Harfan 3 weeks ago
@1Harfan unfortunately no, it bombed at the box office so it was never finished
forsberg2191 3 weeks ago
the dark lord rules...
aguilaix 3 weeks ago
The Horn of Gondor sounds so Gay
timenyart 3 weeks ago
Sam sounds like a complete...retard... T-T
koro898 3 weeks ago
Sam "The Wise" FACEPALM
ONSLAUGHTxx 3 weeks ago
1:04:59 Gandalfs sound :D
jaccan95 3 weeks ago
why didnt they just fly over there on the eagles in the first place?
xxl0lr0flxx 3 weeks ago
@xxl0lr0flxx eagles didnt want to go, kinda problem when the eagles are a bunch of douche bags
timenyart 3 weeks ago
@xxl0lr0flxx First and foremost, THERE'D HAVE BEEN NO STORY. Secondly, they'd have been vulnerable to intercept by Nazgul and/or orc arrow from Mordor's army, delivering the One Ring to Sauron airmail. In The Hobbit, Gwaihir explains how he befriended Gandalf after having been shot down by orc arrow. There was also the risk of the ring deciding to leap off over Mordor of its own accord. When the eagles do appear in force, it's as part of a combined arms operation.
JAMES
Eoraptor1 3 weeks ago
12:39
Gandalf scares Sam for no reason at all
lololol
Kneenibble 4 weeks ago 2
@85WAR10CK xD
sonicwibi 4 weeks ago
thank god for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the ring and Peter's birth
onmask123 4 weeks ago 3
@59:00 Gandalf's a real dick.
mistermatt157 4 weeks ago 2
@mistermatt157 it's only pippin
dregoth22 3 weeks ago
Boromir is a VIKING!!!!! AWESOME
Gslayer5 4 weeks ago 12
@Gslayer5 More like a celt. The Lord of the Rings borrows a heckload of irish folklore (irish folklore is based on celtic folklore).
Raegh 2 weeks ago
@Raegh And from Norse Mythology too. He looked like a viking to me.
MusaMansu 2 weeks ago
why does Aragorn look native american???
Eye2EyeIIIV 4 weeks ago 2
thumbs up if the Nostalgia Critic brought you here
Eye2EyeIIIV 4 weeks ago
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the sound is sooo offffffffffffffff
Thejacktoth 4 weeks ago
The narrator is obi wan! Lololololol
lilybaker11 4 weeks ago
Sam looks like a retarded Susan Boyle. I was cracking up watching his weird facial expressions
pmon1 1 month ago
the realistic look and movement of the bad guys always creeped me out as a kid
Alexmybird 1 month ago
oh i didn't know that Obi Wan Kenobi was the narrator..
CarcamoProductions 1 month ago
32:20*
aem945532 1 month ago
32:23 Frodo Comes out for Samwise
aem945532 1 month ago
1:53:00 epic for shadowing lol
Reacted1991 1 month ago
this anime scares me :S
SkeXO3 1 month ago
This is an amazing feature of a movie. Think about when its made and the mood it captures. You are so quick to compare it to Peter Jacksons, but the two are uncomparable sizes kids. See this for the movie it is. Saw it when i was a child and I loved it from the first time. It was one of my first entry steps into the world of fantasy. Especially the shifting reality scenes with the riders and the battle at helms deep are amazing
QuayNemSorr 1 month ago
boromir > Nord ?
Aragorn > Conan ?
Gandalf GrugDealer ?
WTF hahaha
SawMajster 1 month ago
adorable hobbits. cute lol
01christian05 1 month ago
this movie is such a fail peter jacksons one is so much better
Forfiwen1 1 month ago
Peter Jackson has copied many things !
73efarta 1 month ago
@73efarta You're right I saw many things that are shooted in the same way in Peter Jackson's movies. But I don't think he "copied" them, I'd rather say he "quoted" elements from a movie that maybe was the first good attempt to picture Tolkien's huge world and that he simply liked or wanted to be remembered ! Maybe he owes a lot to this animated movie of the 70's... We should ask him ! :-)
ZeMushroom 1 month ago
@ZeMushroom Jackson at first denied knowing this film and then later admitted he was a long time fan of it. This was definitely an influence on Jackson.
terrortorn 1 month ago
8:11
Frodo
where the hell are my eyelids!?
SombreroKing100 1 month ago
Have you left the rrrrrrrrring forrrr Frrrrrrrrrodo?
frog1599 1 month ago 4
Verey bad graffics.
But it is made in 1978:)
StefanoBrul 1 month ago
Sam, looks like a troll on drugs...
Aragon, looks like a indian in hotpants...
Gandalf, looks like an old nasty pedophile...
Sauraman, looks like a old lady with beard...
And everyone else looks just as bad... XD
MrAllmightyMe 1 month ago
Gondor has no pants.
Gondor needs no pants.
Cap285 1 month ago 10
@Cap285 hahahahaha
RedStormCommingIn 1 week ago
the audio is a little off kinda annoying -.-
skater2646 1 month ago
freaky ass animation =D
PirateMonkeyFilmz 1 month ago
Awesome not geee
Snarf414 1 month ago
strange animation but i like it soo much
semsem627 1 month ago
What is this type of animation called. The movements seem live with an animated veneer on them.
HorstQueck 1 month ago
@HorstQueck Yeah, it's called rotoscoping. It's an animation technique where the filmmakers first film live action actors acting out the scenes, and then those scenes are traced onto animation cels. That's why the movements seem live.
GQseven 1 month ago
well that's some bad sync at the end
Gizlivadi 1 month ago
beautiful x
blackangel73 1 month ago
Does anyone else thing that Gollum looks like the old pedophile from family guy?
alielbaryeshua 1 month ago 2
32:20 so effin gay.. i see the animated version also captured the bromance between sam and frodo
wilezra 1 month ago
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