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  • Proper continuity of events = +1 point. Good use of Tolkien's dialogue = +1 point. Reliance on source material = +1 point. Making the Witch King of Angmar sound like Commander Cobra = -3 points.

  • Skeletor?

  • Holy crap, this is awful.

  • Do they ever explain why the swords don't make contact and instead make zappy lights/noises, other than to keep it kid-friendly?

  • Actually...I enjoy this Witch King. Between its hollow, mechanical voice, and its stark difference from the rest of Middle-Earth, it suggests that it is, in fact, a lost piece of magical technology that was recharged, if you will, by the stirring of Sauron. Perhaps all magic of Middle-Earth is highly advanced...magitechnology, down to the ring and the staff of Gandalf.

    And flame war in three, two, one...

  • why did they not include Legolas and Gimli in this version?

  • I'LL GET YOU HE-MAN

  • EXTERRRRRMINATE!

  • what is this monty pyton?

  • Nice going!!! Showed that you don't need to be a guy to beat the impossible

  • "Ha! She disguised as a knight and she came hither!"

  • In my opinion, this version sucked AND the Bakshi version sucked.

  • Personally I think Peter Jackson did a better job of capturing the feel of the fight. Plus nothing was more epic when she pulled off her helm and said "I am no man!" and smote the Witch King. Plus I liked the fact Peter Jackson's version was a not musical! Plus the movie did not need a narrator. Which is what this movie suffers from.

  • COME NOT BETWEEN SKELETOR AND HIS PREY!

  • 1.Orcs look like a pile of shit

    2.The Witch king kinda sounds like Mysterio from the PS1 Spiderman

    3.Ohh dear lord what did they do to the hobbits >_<

  • guys

    guys...

    this is fucking weird

  • 1:10 Shaggy?

  • @darthmarshy619 - Yep, Casey Kasem

  • I'm glad to know the guy who voiced the Daleks found some extra work.

  • 3PO-king to Eowyn:

    "Come not between a protocol droid and his pray..."

  • these are scooby doo villian voices

  • They loved using Paul Frees as many of the voices of different characters in both The Hobbit and The Return of the King.

  • How did they not know she was a woman, she had breast bumbs and glittery eyes.

  • they made this like a bad scooby doo cartoon ,i wish the 1st director was given the means to finish what he started ,,they did a bad job of the 2nd half of the books

  • @reksub10 Yep, totally agree man, this shit sucks, Ralph Bakshi's LOTR was far better than this hannah-barbera style cheap crap with songs and all that childish stuff...puaggghhh.....i'll spit 10 times for each dislike this crap gets!!!!!

  • @mrksuckerberg ralph bakshi ,thats the directors name right enough cheers for reminding me ,,,,the sound effect of eowyn's sword hitting the witch kings dragon was pityfull ,,not to mention the voices .......and did you hear the words to some of the songs ?"where theres a whip theres a way"? i couldnt watch this is was bull compared to the 1st half ..all the comments so far have slagged this off ,what where the makers thinking.al least R.Bakshi didnt trod all over tolkiens work

  • lmao that was terrible

  • WHAT THE FUCK IS A ROBOT VOICING THE WITCH KING FOR

  • "Come not between the nice cow and his prey!"

  • Skeletor? What are you doing in Middle Earth!?

  • 1:24 A foul and putrid wind? I guess the witch-king stopped at Taco Bell before he took to the field.

    On a serious note, why does his voice sound so familiar?

  • okay by the time he started talking all I heard was: "I am.... THE MONARCH!!!!"

  • This is a pretty accurate portrayal of the Witch King,,with an invisible head with a crown on top and two floating disembodied red eyes as his only visible features. But while the text clearly says that it has a "metallic voice", I don't think that Starscream voice quite conveys the sense of being undead, Still,close enough.

  • @SardaukarPrime Yeah, not only did he have the disembodied eyes, but he had a metallic voice because if I remember correctly, it said, "His voice sounded 'metallic' because it the sound of his voice reverberated throughout his empty crown." or something like that.

  • I liked the Witch King in the other animated movie, which was like the combination of the Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. However, the Eowyn in this movie is far prettier than the Ewoyn in the other animated movie. It's like night and day difference.

  • whoever posted this video has no right to bash peter jackson for improving Lord of the Rings

  • Witch-King: *about to kill eyowen*

    Pippin... or Merry.... wait... yea its pippin I think: NOOOO! *stab*

    Witch-King: AGH! GAY!

    Eyowen: *slash*

    Witch-King: ASS WIPE!

    *movie becomes a PC monitor and scroll out, you see the witch King playing a video game as himself*

    Witch-King: IF THAT WERE REAL I WOULD HAVE KICKED HER ASS! FUCK THIS SHIT *Smashes computer monitor with flail*

  • I know "carrion" means "waste" or "putrid flesh", but what does "dwimmerlake" mean?

  • Starscream+Skeletor+Ganon=This­....thing.

  • The witch king reminds me of skeletor

  • You know, for a second there I thought the Witch King was a pretty intimidating villain, what with the black armor and floating crown and evil-looking red lights. Then he talked.

  • @lemonade1531 lol ikr, I felt the same way XD

  • @lemonade1531 i know he soubds like mysterio from spider man lol

  • HE SOUNDS LIKE AN EVEN MORE ANNOYING VERSION OF STARSCREAM!

  • The Witch King sounds like Ganon from the Zelda cartoons.

  • Man when I was little I watched this movie every other day! One the days in beetween I watched the hobbit!

  • came hither old english is funny

  • See, the Jackson version still seems more concise and dramatic. In this it's "No man can harm me!" "I'm no man, I'm Eowin!" "Gasp, it's Eowin!, she was forbidden from riding with us!"

    And this all happens BEFORE the battle, so the battle seems almost fait accompli. In Jackson's version, the reveal comes after the battle and it has more dramatic impact, and we learn everything we need to know in fewer redundant lines. "But, no man can harm me" "I'm no man" boom, done.

  • Take this animation, which portrays the Witch King far more visually accurate to the Tolkien books, and put the voice of the of the one from Peter Jackson's version over it, and it would be perfect.

  • The Witch-King is a motherfucking Dalek!!! =O

  • @MrLePov lol

  • @MrLePov i agree dalek or transformer

  • OMG the witch king is a robot!!!

  • This is by far the worst scene in all of LOTR. Women like this do not exist outside of fiction.

  • The Witch King sounds like an effeminate robot. The fuck?

  • Damn! This Eowyn is ridiculously more badass than any other, film or radio series.

  • Goddamn Skeletor!

  • It's not a decapitation if he doesn't have a head.

  • Eowyn here is better than the PJ movies, but the witch king is much better in the PJ films.

  • sad when your a girl has a deeper voice than you

  • 0:27 ...and the Witch-King's menace is instantly deflated.

  • OK...replace this lame-ass Witch King and voices with the ones fro Peter Jackson's LOTR, and you've got the most perfect fn scene ever put to cartoon cell.

  • THAT VOICE THO! I just can't..he sounds like a robotic Skeletor.

    technical aspects/2D animation/CGI aspects aside, I personally liked the character design of the Witch King in the newer series better, he was more menacing...take Disney's the Black Cauldron, done 5 years later, not so great of a movie, and was a total flop, but the villain, the Horned King was pretty creepy, the Witch King here is just kinda "ehh..."

  • Do you people think that the audiences viewing the Fellowship would have understood the language from the books? Tolkien was a professor in English, imagine the difficulty in understanding the language in the films.

  • The Witch King sounds like Starscream in G1

  • there u have it,the witch king is a badass robot......noone believed me.........

  • its funny how everybody trashes these movies. jacksons versions were better? yea thats because jacksons versions came out a quarter of a century later with a lot of new technology when it comes to storytelling. its so sad to realize that everyone posting here hasnt read any of tolkiens works except me and yet you all seem to be expert critics. these old cartoons did the best they could for their time and actually used more lines directly from the books than the new movies did.

  • @vinnieknish There are alot of parts in these animated films I like alot better than the PJ movies, trust me.

  • @vinnieknish agreed, totaly

  • Sounds look a scooby doo character.

  • sees him, wow the animated version is better than the movie

    hears him, never mind...

  • Jackson's version is better, simple as that.

  • MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE XD

  • hinder ME???????????

  • I love Eowyn, one of my favorite characters from the books. Jackson's interpretation is okay, B-, but I can't believe he left out " . . and if you touch him, I will smite you.". Surely one of the most classic lines in fantasy literature. 

  • Has nothing on Peter Jackson. Sorry, but Jackson hit it on the nose for interpretation

  • no matter how good the dialogue or story flow of this film are, the animation is fucking terrible

  • And as someone who actually does like the books, I honestly don't care much for the animated movies. I did like animated adaptation of The Hobbit though.

    Also, I just can't take the Witch King seriously when he sounds like Skeletor.

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  • By Grabthars hammer I have avenged thee!

  • Is it just me, or does he sound kind of like a dalek?

  • the sound effects, really?....................

    

  • the movies (though really good) could have been a lot better had jackson not butchered many many small details. this scene in the movie eowyn appears scared and weak, the dialog is HORRIBLE, and action too drawn out. here in this 1980 animated version she is brave and unflinching in the face of evil and the scene plays out much better. women everywhere should be pissed off at what jackson did to eowyn in this scene. he denied us a fine moment of a great character.

  • peter jackson left out huge bits of dialogue that was necessary, made several battles into one big one, and made them mostly spectacle, and made some lines said by some people, namely one said by Gandalf, as he was a prophet of sorts and knew vaguely the future, and gave it to Aragorn, good choice, but wrong idea, he didnt push through with the spirit of man, Gandalf knew through cunning and being a freaking wizard, and where did the comeback line go? there was so much missing

  • Peter Jackson did a mostly admirable job of making the film. But the language in this part is more interesting in the original than in the Jackson film.

  • yo this sucks the hoppits look like retarts and wtf is wit dat sword is she zelda or something shooting lasers out her sword wtf lmao

  • Whether not you likes Peter Jackson's version the Books will always stand out as the best. You can not (I repeat) can not put every detail from a book into a movie. Also something you can write in a book does not always translate well to film. From watching the deleted scenes Jackson tried his best to include everything but the time frame for the movie would not allow it

  • This is a lot more how I imagined it. Without the crazy voices though.

  • Peter Jackson owned this. If you honestly think this is better, you need to take off your nostalgia goggles. 

  • @NuclearSalvation Or maybe you need to take off your "OMG FLASHY EFFECTS" goggles

    I also saw this move AFTER PJ's version and I still think its better.

  • Starscream just got way more bad ass.

  • Peter Jackson's version looked much better. It was more darker and it looked much better. The witch king looked like the devil himself instead of some wierd shit. The orcs looked more darker and evil then the hilarious ones here.

  • @UpTheIronOzzy Theres nothing demon like about either witch king and what do you mean by "weird shit"? This version of the witch king is more faithful to what a nazgul is, a spirit, in robes, not living magical armor. The orcs weren't dark, they were just larger, dumber, and lacked personality.

  • @Visser0x ??? The Nazgûl was the nine kings of Númenor. Former men! They have bodies, and are dressed in black ROBES... And they were dark sorcerers, DEMON-like. And the orcs? Please... Those orcs must have raising the morale of Gondor's and Rohan's men. The PJ orcs looked more like the forces of the dark lord. And personality? The orcs were mass-produced! And they were cannonfodders!! And you have to agree that PJ's version looks better and actors looks more Tolkien the cartoon character

  • @UpTheIronOzzy Invisible bodies, and dark sourcers, but no demon quailities at all, there bodies are still human it just can't be seen. Those orcs were much smarter and had two throats, doubt the were moral raising. PJ orcs were basiclly green elves with fangs that squilled like pigs, hardly the army of the dark lord. The only tolkien looking character in PJ movies were the elves. the dwarves and the hobbits (especially the hobbits) just look like regular humans.

  • @Visser0x The PJ orcs were never green... And what the fuck do you mean by smarter? They are just like the PJ orcs. Except that these looks just stupid and are too short and does not look like that they are warriors. The PJ orcs looks kinda scary, fights kinda good and they are fearsome and powerful in numbers. So i don't really see how you can see those orcs as the superior. And soon you i can guess that you say that the PJ Uruk-Hai are fail. Which they are not.

  • @UpTheIronOzzy PJ orcs were green, but some were other colors. These orcs aren't mindless, blood thirsty savages like PJ, these orcs are reluctant, fear filled, and would turn of sorron if they could . They aren't warriors their monsters and thats what look like monsters. PJ's mythical creatures hardly look mythical compared to the ones in these films.

  • @Visser0x Okey this conversation looks kinda stupid... Two Tolkien-lovers fights over minor differences? But i stand for that the PJ version looks more awesome. Period!

  • @UpTheIronOzzy It looks more morden

    Morden =/= Awesome

    PJ made the movie so it would appeal to avarage person, thus dumbing it down.

    This version is supior in the fact that it actually looks like somthing from lord of the rings and a generic fantasy action film.

  • @Visser0x Oh sh*t. Sorry. I just read that the Nazgûls physical form disappeared after time. But still, The Witch King wore his helm over his robes. And the only visible armor was their gloves and boots. And everything evil in PJ's movies looked way more evil than in the series.

  • @UpTheIronOzzy This one looked more super natural.

  • Well...I think Peter Jackson's Witch King was a little more intimidating, at least his didn't sound like a shitty 70s robot haha

  • "Behold the power of my beautiful flowing golden hair! With the power of Revlon, I shall smite you down!"

  • How the hell did all that hair fit in that helmet?

  • Honestly though, I really like Eowyn's portrayal here.  Very manly.

  • He had come again, turning hope to despair, victory to defeat;

    "Be gone foul dwimmerlake, lord of Carrion, leave the dead in peace!"

    "Come not between Skeletor and his prey!"

  • @Syrath101 When I read the part about Skeletor, Orange juice shot out my nose. Funny shit!

  • this guy is more like the bitch king. his voice makes me want to hit him

  • Holy shit it's Starscream!

  • Peter Jackson's Witch King sounded more epic.

  • @greenxxxable Whispering is epic?

  • @Visser0x Oh, I thought he sound reptilian. This sounds like a Transformers character.

  • @greenxxxable Not enough voice rattling to be reptilian. this movie came out in 80s that transformers voice would be the popular choice.

  • @greenxxxable Just a Bit ...

  • Fuck me, I own this on Blu-ray. why am I watching it on YouTube?

  • I'm gonna say Peter Jackson was pretty close to the book, cinematically adapted. Seriously, that's too much dialogue for a movie that needs to be kept at around 2 hours, what with all the other things they needed to put in and/or lengthen for necessary effect. LOTR was having trouble keeping it short as it is...

  • why does the witch king sound like an annoying robot?

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  • I love the random winds that blow for a second to with only purpose to make capes and hair sway.

  • wait...

    I thought Pippin was inside Minas Tirith during the battle...

  • this is fail:D

  • And so, with the help of Shaggy, Eowyn slew Skeletor....

  • Who's eowyn?

  • Note to Novuso: Precious dialogue and proper continuity of events are a poor reason to put up with bad voice acting, and weak animation.

  • @simdae1 And awful sound effects.

  • Eowyb".....why is the eye on your chest looking at your crotch?"

  • ''But no living man am i! ..plus i have this lightsaberfairylightningawsome sword''

  • "Sauron has yet to reveal his deadliest servant, the one who will lead Mordor's armies in war. The one they say no living man can kill. Skeletor!"

  • Starcream?!

  • wtf am i watching :S

  • he sounds like mysterio, aka the WORST spider man villain ever... not a good choice to base a characters voice off of

  • @UnidentifiedLifeform It's called a vocorder, dude. Cutting edge technology in the 70's. LOL!

  • whoever decided it'd be funny to make the most badass literary villain EVER into a robot is being tortured repeatedly everyday in Hell for this treachery, a treachery for which there is no word in Elvish, Entish or the Tongues of Man!

  • @FanJamesMarsters Eh, dude, I hate to break it to you. That wasn't meant to be funny. That's why it's so particularly pathetic. That was meant in all seriousness.

  • her blade didn't even touch it and it wasn't magical

  • @flamehands21 Are you refering to the witch king? because the witch king's body is invisble, but is still there, or are you talking about the felbeast, her sword hit it on the neck but we couldn't see the felbeast when she swung her sword.

  • he sounds like a knight who says ni

  • Drugs??

  • Apparently the Witch king is related to Skeletor.

  • How did she get all that hair in the helmet XD

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAHAHA!

  • No living man shall hinder gollum

  • The Witch king's voice sound the same voice Of the army of robot soldier's voice from ratchet and clank 3 :D

  • Note to Novuso, watch the end of the animated Two Towers. Movies always get things wrong, and the newer Lord of the Rings was done in such a manner that even an audience with no knowledge of LOTR would understand the continuity of the plot. Add this type of speech? You'd alienate nearly every person who would potentially go and see the movie. It's great for a book, not so much for a 21st Century film.

  • This is cinematically… pathetic.

  • as much as those Rankin Bass movies were accurate to the book, they lack atmosphere and those songs, are so out of place, and the animation was plain horrible. Bakshi in the other hand, added alot of atmosphere in the film, which in m opinion is ages better than these, and most people say that RK took the time to animate stuff, but the use of rotoscoping on his LOTR are an artistic choice, and Bakshi style of animation is really good,but when it comes down to it, the rotoscoping kicked ass.

  • Wow. first time seeing this. This is Really Awesome!

  • 0:36 BECAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE

  • So did Bill Cosby inhale some helium before he recorded his lines?

  • Is this movie anyway related to the crappy animated Lord of the Rings movie?

  • @Melkhiordarkblade

    No, this is a scene from the Rankin and Bass movie of "Return of the King." That company also made a movie of "The Hobbit." Their work is better than Ralph Bakshi's.

  • You are an idiot, Starscream! :P

  • jesus god this is terrible. Peter Jackson may have butchered the story but at least it was watchable.

  • Peter Jackson didn't butcher the story you asshole, he made the books into movies. They're two different mediums and they need to be treated as such. Your ignorance is pathetic.

  • @rcameronswindsor  This.

  • @rcameronswindsor He might not have butchered it but he did change events around, remove certain characters, and even remove some events entirely. Examples, the beacons were lit in the book well before Gandalf and Pippin got to the city, Imrahil was not even introduced nor were any of the people that came to defend the city, and the Scouring of the Shire never took place.

  • @rcameronswindsor Exactly, a lot of this dialogue is completely worthless in a visual medium like film. It's just telling the audience crap they already know and it's better off cut out and truncated where possible. Honestly, if Jackson had tried to be excessively faithful to the books, his movies would have been piss poor. Fellowship probably would have bombed critically and commercially. Post-production on Two Towers would have ceased, and we would never have seen the rest of the trilogy.

  • why doses the witch king sound like starscream

  • This is truly amazing.

  • What is a headless Skeletor, riding Ridley from Metroid, doing fighting She-Ra?

  • You know, this scene might have been more moving...if Theoden's death hadn't happened several scenes before this fight. Or if the Nazgul didn't sound like Skeletor. Or...or...never mind. There are too many levels of wrong to list them all here.

  • Is the Witch King a cyborg?

  • Samus vs Ridley?

  • Theoden forbid 222 people to ride with him.

  • "it's... it's EMPTY!"

  • I couldn't hear anything the witch king says, because I was laughing to hard a this voice. :/

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  • Jackson's effects were better, but in terms of language this is better, so combine the language of this version with the effects of Jackson's movie and we have a perfect movie.

  • @WallisTylerJ if Bakshi had done the last half of the 2towers and ROTK, it would kick major assage.

  • LOL at the video description talking about a "proper continuity of events" in a clip that has Pippin inexplicably on Plennor Fields bullshitting with Merry while Eowyn does her thing. Hey Pippin, shouldn't you be saving Faramir right now?

  • Always read the fine print.

  • "No living man may hinder me!" cried Skeletor.

  • Lol Shaggy was a hobbit

  • 3:44 that flag looks like is has a jewish menora on it and the stars represent the flames

  • "Or he will slay thee in turn! FOR COBRA!"